District 1
Serving the Big Country and Concho Valley regions of Texas.
Welcome to District 1! Our district’s membership includes librarians, staff, trustees, full-time library students, and other interested individuals representing school, public, academic, and special libraries. We are located in the Big Country and Concho Valley regions of Mid-West and West Texas.
District 1 includes 32 Texas counties with a total population of 473,203 covering over 34,257 square miles.Counties include: Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Crockett, Eastland, Fisher, Haskell, Irion, Jones, Kent, Kimble, Knox, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Mitchell, Nolan, Reagan, Runnels, Shackelford, Schleicher, Scurry, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Taylor, Throckmorton andd Tom Green.
The major metropolitan areas within this region are Abilene (MSA pop. 157,322) and San Angelo (MSA pop. 104,830).
District 1 Officers
Chair: Chrissy Adkins, Abilene ISD
Chair-Elect: Maggie Bootman, Mitchell County Public Library
Past-Chair: Jill Donegan, Tom Green County Library
Councilor: James Floyd, Hardin-Simmons University
Alternate Councilor: Janis Test, Abilene Public Library
Secretary: Terry Young, McMurry University
Treasurer: Edward Smith, Abilene Library Consortium
District 1 Meeting @ Annual Conference
Minutes & Operating Procedures
Fall 2019 District 1 Minutes 10.5.19
Operating Procedures District 9.29.2012
Latest News
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