The Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center 

Click here to visit the website of the 100-year-old “biggest little library in Texas.” The Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center features 38,000 books and resources, in addition to genealogy-research materials, the Arnold Smith Native American artifact collection, a Texas archeology display, a community meeting room, and an exhibit about local baseball legend Hilton Lee Smith. Yearly, the library hosts hundreds of programs and events, the largest of which is the annual Texas Word Wrangler Book Festival, showcasing Texas authors and their books. Founded in 1920, the Giddings Public Library’s history has included steady growth in physical space, collection size, and membership. The library’s physical size of 19,000 square feet makes it the largest library in Texas among communities of a similar size, according to the 2020 Texas Local Public Library Statistics provided by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.