Please join us for our End of the Year Potluck & Tour!
Come celebrate the end of the year through a feast and tour of the beautiful Moore Memorial Public Library – bring your Drivers License to get a free library card!
Where: Moore Memorial Public Library (1701 9th Avenue N., Texas City, TX 77590)
When: Saturday, December 13th at 12 PM
Optional RSVP Here
Don’t forget about Zine Fest Houston happening this Saturday, November 15th! This year’s annual Houston Zine Fest will be happening at The Orange Show for Visionary Arts, and AHA will have a table for ya’ll to come by, say hi, and check out our zine submissions!
Zine submissions for AHA are still open! You have until November 30th to submit a zine, with the theme being Community. This could be about a repository you’ve visited, collections you yourself are working on, or anything you want – as long as the theme is community!
Come one, come all to our first annual Galveston County History Round-Up! Community members are invited to bring photographs, letters, documents, and other meaningful items for this in-person digitization event! Collection experts will give you tips on how to care for your keepsakes and make sure you walk away with a flash drive of your digitized items!
Sign up for our raffle to win some goodies to help you protect your family keepsakes! Bring family members along and with your cell phone, and create a short, interactive family oral history interview! The event is FREE, but registration is required. Just scan the QR code or use the link to sign up! A copy of all scanned items will be retained by the Archives of Galveston County.
For more information call Theresa Mayfield, Moore Memorial Library at 409-949-3007.
The Archivists of the Houston Area (AHA!) invites you to submit a page to the collaborative AHA! Zine. We are about a month out from our submission deadline of November 30th and we are excited to see the various ways in which people are exploring the topic of COMMUNITY. This topic can be broadly interpreted though many ways such as: a review of an AHA! event * write up of an archival collection * a review of a digital archive (such as the Portal to Texas History) * an artwork you created with or inspired by archival materials * collection highlights * upcoming/past history/archival events * project completed in library school Check out this sampling of contributions from a few members of the AHA! Board:
Together we try to represent the various ways in which one can express the theme of community. Reminder, you don’t have to be an archivist, librarian, or information professional to submit to the AHA! Zine. Anyone who has an interest in archives is welcome to share their experiences and stories with the Archivists of the Houston Area community.
Submission deadline: Sunday, November 30, 2025 Submit via our Google Form or via email at ahazines@gmail.com. More detailed information about the AHA! Zine and the the Zine Committee can be found on our AHA! Zine Page.
Archives Month celebrations continue! Join us this Thursday, October 23, for a special afternoon exploring the Menil Archives at 25:
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AHA! is touring the 1940 Terminal Air Museum & Archive on Saturday, June 8th. There is ample on site parking and the museum has kindly offered to have refreshments on hand for our visit!
The 1940 Terminal Air Museum, operated by the Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society (HAHS) is located in Houston at the William P. Hobby Airport. It first opened its doors on September 28, 1940 and is a beautiful art deco structure designed by noted local architect Joseph Finger. During its heyday, the terminal housed the airport administrative functions and the airport control tower, and was the only terminal in Houston until 1954. Today, the terminal houses the museum’s collections focused on Houston civil aviation history.
The tour will start at 10:30 am, and Michael Bludworth, the museum’s volunteer historian will give us a brief history of the aviation industry in Houston, and the terminal (he is a wonderful storyteller)! Participants will have an opportunity to roam the museum for about 20 – 30 minutes and then gather together again for a tour of the Archive. The Archive (not a large space) is housed in a building about 100 yards from the museum, and is a walkable distance. But depending on the heat, it may be good to drive. After the tour we will have lunch at Don Carlos Cantina and Mexican restaurant (8385 Broadway St. 77061), not far from the museum.
The Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, part of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, invites you to stargaze with Village Creek State Park Interpreter Alex Stamatis on Friday, June 14 at the Center’s Amateur Astronomy Night.
Stamatis will lead visitors on a tour of the night sky from 8:30 p.m. until approximately 10 p.m. Learn to locate constellations and view some of the season’s most fascinating celestial objects using telescopes, binoculars, and the naked eye!
Join the fun on the Center’s grounds at 650 FM 1011, Liberty, Texas. (Back-Up Date for Inclement Weather/Cloud Cover is Friday, June 21).
For more information: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/node/69508
Do you know an outstanding archivist, archive, or related organization? Nominate them for the 2024 THRAB Archival Awards!
These annual awards honor archival institutions, programs, and individuals in Texas for their service to the profession. The Texas Historical Records Advisory Board grants awards in the categories of excellence, advocacy, and distinguished service. Nominations will be accepted through June 20. Learn more: www.tsl.texas.gov/archivalaward
TARO April 2024 News and Notes are up on TARO Today! Catch up with TARO, get ready for the TARO Brown Bag at the Society of Southwest Archivists (SSA) Virtual Annual Meeting, and consider volunteering for a committee.
https://sites.utexas.edu/taro/2024/04/23/taro-april-2024-news-and-notes/
TARO (Texas Archival Resources Online) makes descriptions of the rich archival, manuscript, and museum collections in repositories across the state available to the public. The site consists of the collection descriptions or “finding aids” that archives, libraries, and museums create to assist users in locating information in their collections. Explore TARO at https://txarchives.org.