Company Profile
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Company Overview
In the first agency biennial report in 1911, State Librarian E. W. Winkler wrote the following: “The State Library is a place for information. . .It should have the information needed by the historian to portray truthfully the history. . .of this state.” Two years later in 1914, Winkler quoted another librarian in saying, “The state Library is a business institution with a missionary spirit. . .It seeks to extend the benefits of great and well classified collections of books to the greatest number of people and to encourage them to take advantage of the knowledge thus to be obtained. . .It should send out library organizers to hold library institutes for the stimulation of interest in libraries and to assist in the training of librarians.”
There you have it: virtually all our priorities 100 years later expressed in the first five years of the agency. With very little change, these statements of why we exist would encompass our four areas of work: archives and information services, library development and networking, state and local records management, and the Talking Book Program.
We live in an information-based economy and, in a very real way, the continued success of the state depends on the access to information that is provided through these four programs for virtually every citizen in the state of Texas regardless of age, geographic location, or physical ability.
Benefits
Benefits include:
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Vacation
- Paid State Holidays
- Health Insurance
- Health Maintenance Organization membership available
- Free parking upon availability
- Mandatory membership in Employees Retirement System - 6.9% monthly deduction from paycheck
- Direct Deposit of monthly paycheck
- Credit Union
- Deferred Compensation through payroll deduction