The Houston Public Library is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Julia Ideson Building, a Spanish Renaissance Revival landmark that opened in 1926 as the city’s main library and now houses the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.

Fort Bend County libraries have been navigating significant network disruptions since February 24, 2025, impacting services like new library card issuance and web access. County Librarian Roosevelt Weeks has confirmed that a cybersecurity incident is behind the issues.

In 2022, The American Library Association documented 1,269 requests to remove books from libraries across the United States – the most the organization ever recorded.