[1][2] The County-operated library cost $2.3 million (USD) and is located in the underserved south side of San Antonio.
[4] Their fourth branch, The Nelson and Tracy Wolff BiblioTech EDU, opened in December 2022 near downtown San Antonio and serves both residents of Bexar County as well as students on the shared campus of Fox Tech, Cast Tech and ALA.[5] The library lends e-readers and digital content rather than physical media.
Members with a library card can also download the cloudLibrary app to read eBooks from their personal device (iOS, Android, Windows).
[2] BiblioTech also offers online databases and educational resources,[8] programming,[9] and many touch-screen video tablets.
For critic Jeff Jacoby, BiblioTech's all-digital library model lacks sensory enticements (such as shelves of books) that he believes foster serendipity in information discovery.