Galena Park Branch Library - Harris County Library

Galena Park Branch Library's George and Barbara Bush Foundation Family Place had 4,576 visitors in 2024. Our Family Place area is open year-round and is stocked with take-home resource materials, a circulating collection of Parenting books in English and Spanish, and a toy and play area with infant toys, board books, manipulatives, blocks, dramatic play, puzzles, and dramatic play toys.

We provide two Family Place Workshops, Stay and Play in the Spring and the Fall. We continue to recruit families with small children to join our reading challenge, 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten. Our weekly story time, "You're a Reader Baby," provides children and their caretakers with quality literature, early literacy skills, and interactive playtime. In the summer, we invite the CollabLab bus, a mobile play area focusing on STEAM learning through toys and demonstrations.