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.