5th Floor - Business, Science & Technology

Manager Mae Neal

Sammons Small Business collection
Economics & entrepreneurship
More than 3,000 cookbooks as well as a variety of books on related topics such as canning, brewing, table setting, and artisanal food production
Sports
Car repair guides
Science & technology collections
Health & medicine collections
Gardening and Wildlife collection

Hamon Training Room

Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Oil and Gas Resource Center

The Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Oil and Gas Resource Center is a collection of print and electronic materials with emphasis on investments, company information, financial management, industry surveys and statistics within the oil and gas industry and the broader energy industry.

The Hamon Center opened to the public in December 1998 through a $1 million gift from Mrs. Nancy Hamon in honor of her husband, Jake L. Hamon. In addition to financing the initial creation of the Hamon Oil and Gas Resource Center, the gift established a permanent endowment that provides a continuous source of funds, matched by City of Dallas funds, to maintain up-to-date oil and gas resources.

Mrs. Hamon's gift also funded other major renovations to the 5th floor including:

a remodeled, customer-centric public space, designed to facilitate research and learning.
networked computer workstations, providing access to electronic oil and gas information sources, business databases, and other electronic information sources.
addition of the Hamon Training Room, intended primarily for teaching users how to effectively search business and technology databases.

Pollinator Garden

The 5th floor balcony boasts a container garden of native plants. The garden is kept closed to the public except by appointment or special event.

Seed Library

A circulating collection of open-pollinated and heirloom seeds at the Dallas Public Library!