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Library Resources

Burnet Library

• The Herman Brown Free Library
• Location: on the Square, at the corner of Main & Washington Streets
• Hours: 9 am - 5:30 pm. Monday - Friday. Please call for special holiday hours.
• Internet:  Computer access available for all Burnet County library patrons. Building is equipped with free Wi-Fi.  
  
• Phone: (512) 715-5228
  
• Search the holdings of the Herman Brown Free Library at <http://www.hermanbrownlibrary.org>
• Genealogy:
  • Repository for the bulk of the county's main genealogy and local history collection -- The Elizabeth Van Gorkom Genealogical Research Room--features large vertical file holdings.
  • One digital microfilm reader/printer, which may be reserved up to 1 week in advance, is available for use in 2-hour time blocks. Call ahead to make sure the machine is not reserved before you come in.     The  new digital microfilm reader/printer requires a training session prior  for first-time users.   Call the library for more information.
  • The microfilm collection includes the Burnet Bulletin,  Bertram Enterprise, Marble Falls Messenger, The Highlander, River Cities, and Picayune newspapers dating from 1874, with years 1882-98 missing; Texas Death records to 1940; Burnet County Tax Records; and Federal Census microfilm from 1860 to 1930.  No microfilm is available at any other Burnet County library.
    
  • Two computers are available in the Genealogical Research room for use with Genealogy Research. 
  • Free access to Ancestry and Fold3
  • Research assistance is available on Fridays from 10-3 by Burnet County Genealogical Society volunteers.
  • Public use and special children's computers are available in other areas of the library
    
  
  
• Click here for information on Burnet County Reference Books for Sale
• Click here to go to a family name index and inventory of the library's genealogy surname vertical file.
• Click here to go to an index and inventory of the vertical file folders that contain historical information.
• Click here to go to an index of Oral Histories of Burnet County Citizens from the 1970s
  

• Location: 101 Main Street, Marble Falls
• Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday - Friday. Please call for special holiday hours.
• Internet: internet access available for Burnet County library patrons. Filters available for children. Building is equipped with free Wi-Fi.  
• Phone: (830) 693-3023
• Genealogy: While the Burnet County library system's main genealogy and local history collection is housed at the Herman Brown Free Library in Burnet, the Marble Falls Public Library does have:
  • basic how-to genealogy materials and some local history information in the Texana area
  • a few isolated family histories and photos of the Marble Falls area
  Vertical File information on local history and families is kept at the Reference Desk

Bertram Library - Joan Cole Mitte Memorial Library

• Location:  170 N. Gabriel St., Bertram, Texas
• Hours:  10 am to 6 pm, Monday - Friday
• Phone:  (512) 355-2113
  
• Internet: Internet access available for Burnet County library patrons. Filters available for children. Building is equipped with free Wi-Fi.  

Hours are:  Thursday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.;     Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.;     Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The library is staffed only with volunteers; please call 693-5363 to make sure they're open.

Buchanan Dam area in Llano County:  A new Family History Center of the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is located at 1676 Ranch Road 261.  The Llano Family History Center is open Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m.-noon. Call (830) 613-7181 for more information.