Nueces County Keach Family Library

Nueces County Keach Family Library
Country	United States
Location	1000 Terry Shamsie Boulevard Robstown, Texas 78380
Collection
Size	47055
Access and use
Circulation	13076
Population served	28910
Other information
Director	Ida Gonzalez-Garza
Website	http://www.nueces.lib.tx.us/

The Nueces County Keach Family Library is affiliated with the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds. The hope, according to Nueces County Commissioner Oscar Ortiz, a Robstown native, is that the projects will spur development along U.S. Highway 77, and jobs for Robstown’s citizens.^[1] The building is 15,000 square feet (1,400 m²) located in the center of Nueces County at 1000 Terry Shamsie Boulevard in Robstown, Texas. The library is located at the entrance of the Borchard Fairgrounds.

The Keach Family Library was named after five generations of Fore-Keach family who dedicated their lives to enhance the community of education and service goals through their local community newspaper.^[2] The Keach Family Library is a new library that was moved from Main Road to U.S. Highway 77.

Interior Design

The interior design consists of Spanish tile roofing, limestone flooring, and cavernous half-barrel ceiling. There is a café with an outdoor seating area and an espresso machine. The building also has a children’s reading space called Pop Pop’s Place- a glass half-moon designed so the children can encircle storytellers. The Keach Family library has interesting features for all ages in the community. It consists of a child's area, computer workstations with high-speed internet access, wireless internet service for laptops, public meeting rooms, an outdoor deck overlooking a wetland pond and the baseball stadium. The building is currently going under contract to find a coffee shop. According to librarytechnology the collection of the library consists 47055 volumes. The library circulates 13076 items per year and serves a community of 29810 residents.

Statistics

Distribution	Numbers	Titles
Service Population	28910	Residents
Collection size	47055	Volumes
Annual Circulation	13076	Transactions

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The total construction cost for the Keach Family library was estimated at $5.3 M. The size is 18k square feet and the amount allocated for equipment, which includes books was at $250,000+.

Events

The library has many activities going on such as reading time with Mr. Kippy and story telling with Ms. Chapa on Wednesday afternoons. There are adult literacy classes that are funded by the State of Texas. There have been events at the library that include arts and crafts, and public events such as de Los Ninos that was founded by Pat Mora. There has been an esteemed South Texas author, educator that spoke at the Nueces County Keach Family Library. On Saturday, October 17, 2009 Dr. Arnoldo De Leon gave a presentation in the Multipurpose Room. The event was co-sponsored by Texas A&M University-Kingsville and its Office of Vice President for Student Affairs, Southwest Borderlands Research Center, department of psychology and sociology, and department of history; and the Nueces County Keach Family Library.^[4] During holidays characters visit during Easter and Christmas time. The Easter bunny and Santa Claus have stopped by at the library for pictures. There are arts and crafts and storytelling for toddlers and a summer reading club that residents can participate.

The current library director is Ida Gonzalez-Garza and the Youth Service Reference director is Laura Chapa.

References

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4. ^ 1017DeLeon%20Book%20talk.pdf

External links

• Nueces County Keach Family Library