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Lone Star College, Tomball Library and volunteers launch Images of America: Tomball book
Summary
Library staff and volunteers unveiled a new pictorial history of Tomball and announced a book launch and a growing local historical archive that will be digitized and housed for public access.
Lone Star College Tomball library staff on Jan. 6 unveiled Images of America: Tomball, a pictorial history compiled by library staff, college partners and a volunteer committee and announced a public book launch for Jan. 11.
The project, presented to the Tomball City Council by Jana Hoglund, director at the Lone Star College Tomball Community Library, and Kyla Byang, the library’s genealogy librarian, grew from work that began in August 2021 and involved roughly 18 people on the book committee. Hoglund told the council the book prompted two additional projects: a digitization station at the library and a Tomball historical center housed on the Lone Star College campus. "We were working on a book, Images of America, Tomball," Hoglund said, noting city support for preserving historical records.
Byang said the committee collected photos, scrapbooks, yearbooks and newspaper articles and "collected enough materials for five volumes," and that proceeds from book sales will go to the Friends of the Library to support local services. She invited residents to a Jan. 11 launch at the Tomball Community Library and said the book will be available on Amazon the following day.
Hoglund and Byang said much of the historical material will be digitized and made available online — when permission is obtained from donors — and that the college has provided space for a historical center at no charge to the city. The presenters thanked volunteers and partners on the project and asked council members and the public to attend the launch and support the library’s ongoing archival work.
The presentation included an acknowledgment of volunteers and partners but did not include requests for city funding or formal council action during the meeting. Council members and staff invited those involved to stand for a group photo and confirmed the book launch details for the public.
