The purchase and renovation of the historic building for a library is a testimony to Boerne's strong community spirit. The dream of a large, beautiful public library became a reality through a combination of city support, donations from individuals, grants from area foundations, and a lot of hard fund-raising work by the Friends of the Boerne Public Library and a special committee. The Dienger building was originally a grocery store with the Dienger family's quarters upstairs. It is a Texas Historical Landmark building and is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. The library h as about 35,000 volumes and draws more than 100,000 visitors annually.
All library records are in a machine-readable format.
Also, books, materials and library cards are bar-coded for computerized services. As a member of Alamo Area Library System, the library can obtain almost any volume through a national interlibrary loan program. The Boerne Public Library also offers an historical research room containing records gathered by the Boerne Area Historical Preservation Society , the Genealogical Society of Kendall County and the Boerne Cemetery Foundation . Holdings include research materials in books, microfiche and microfilm. Boerne burial records are accessible from a computer donated to the library by the Boerne Cemetery Foundation.