A statewide student research project

A book census of Texas school libraries

The Library Census is a student-run research project building one open, statewide picture of what Texas public school libraries hold — which titles are most widely held, how collections have aged, and how any one library compares with its peers.

For students

Join the research team.

We build the dataset with a small, hand-picked student team. On the team you’ll:

Look up what a school library holds, from its public catalog
Turn each library’s list into clean, comparable data
Help build one open, statewide picture — studied purely as data

Apply below — if it’s a good fit, we’ll email you an invite to join. Open to Texas high schoolers.

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For librarians

Share your catalog.

If you’re a school or district librarian, email your library’s catalog export to

research@librarycensus.org

Any columnar export works — Excel, CSV, or TSV — whatever your system produces. District-wide or per-campus, whichever is easiest on your end.