Associations, Societies, and Academies | Museums | Prizes and Awards | Flags
Note: Chambers of Commerce in some of the larger cities produce directories of local organizations.
T-AL1 Texas trade and professional associations. Rita J. Wright, comp. Austin: Bureau of Business Research, 1972- . Currently published every 3 years. Biennial and irregular in the past.
2006 ed.: $50.00 plus $5 shipping and $4.54 Texas sales tax (spiral bound book); $100.00 plus $5 shipping and $8.66 Texas sales tax (CDROM) ISBN 0-87755-347-5, 978-0-87755-347-2 (book and CDROM).
Order Information: http://bbr.icc.utexas.edu/index.php?pid=100&pub=106
Comprehensive information about state associations, including executive directors, addresses and telephone numbers, and membership totals, as well as publication titles and frequency of publication.
T-AL2 MuseSearch. URL: http://www.museumsusa.org/search/tx/
Searchable database of over 600 Texas museums. Includes in-depth information on collections, exhibits, programs, etc. Provided by the Texas Association of Museums.
T-AL3 Texas air museums: a guide to 13 unique air museums across Texas. Ron Swartley. Las Cruces, NM : Frontier Image Pr., 1995. 80 p. ill. $10.95 ISBN 0-9634309-6-3
T-AL4 Texas Association of Museums. URL: http://www.io.com/~tam/
T-AL5 Texas museums: a guidebook. Paula Eyrich, Ron Tyler. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1983. xiv, 313 p. ill., 10 maps $8.95 ISBN 0-292-78063-X
T-AL6 Texas Library Association awards. URL: http://www.txla.org/html/awards.html
T-AL7 RRT awards. URL: http://www.txla.org/groups/rrt/awards.html
T-AL8 Texas bluebonnet award. URL: http://www.txla.org/groups/tba/index.html
T-AL9 The romantic flags of Texas. Mamie Wayne Cox; fore. by Major John W. Thomason, Jr. Dallas: Banks Upshaw and Co., 1936. xxvi, 373 p. ill. (part col.), front.
T-AL10 The six national flags of Texas. URL: http://www.lsjunction.com/facts/6flags.htm
T-AL11 The ten battle flags of the Texas Revolution. Jay A. Matthews; artwork by Bruce Marshall. Austin: Presidial Pr., 1975. 47 p. 10 l. of plates.
T-AL12 Texas state flag. URL: http://castor.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/flagcode.html
Includes museum database, information about the association, job bank, calendar of scheduled exhibits at TAM member museums, list of publications, and links to museum resources on the internet.
Museums arranged alphabetically by city. Collections described and photographs of many museum buildings included. Locations keyed to maps (p. 296-305). Appendix lists museums by type (p. 281-294). Includes index (p. 307-313). Now somewhat out-of-date for directory information and hours of operation.
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PRIZES AND AWARDS
Information about awards given by the Texas Library Association and its units.
Information about the Lois Bebout Reference Service Award and the Outstanding Texas Reference Source Award administered by the Reference Round Table of the Texas Library Association. Includes forms and lists of winners.
Established in 1979 to encourage Texas children to read more books, explore a variety of current books, develop powers of discrimination, and identify their favorite books. The award program is a project of the Texas Library Association and is cosponsored by the Children's Round Table and the Texas Association of School Librarians. Website includes forms, activities, and information about award winners.
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FLAGS
Histories of flags associated with Texas. Includes words and music for historic and patriotic songs of Texas (p. 361-366). Index (p. 367-373).
Historical information and illustrations of the six flags of Texas.
Plates with history of each flag. Excludes flags designed for or intended to represent the state or a political entity of Texas and those identified with units, garrisons, or vessels of war. Six of the ten flags were designed by wives or sweethearts of the soldiers involved. Two of the flags still exist: the San Jacinto Flag and the Flag of the New Orleans Grays.
Description of the Texas state flag, the flag code, the flag pledge, information about the six flags of Texas with link to pictures, and historical information about the design.
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Updated: 4 February 2007
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