All SC Residents

The South Carolina State Library is proud to announce that award-winning authors/illustrators Rita Williams-Garcia and Sophie Blackall will be featured at StoryfestSC 2017-the state's summer read

February is Black History Month, and the South Carolina State Library has created a page of resources available to cardholders, teachers, librarians, and the general public. Check out these great resources today! http://statelibrary.sc.libguides.com/black-history

Four South Carolinians have been chosen to receive the fiction and poetry prizes awarded annually by the S.C. Academy of Authors, founded in 1986 to identify, recognize and promote the state’s distinguished writers. 

Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson to offer her perspectives on "Great Migration" historical period

The South Carolina State Library invites you to download our Rare Book Collection Coloring Book! Like many other special collections libraries across the world, the SCSL is getting ready to participate in the New York Academy of Medicine’s Color Our Collections event February 6-10, 2017.

Katie and Pamela sit down with Leesa Aiken, SC State Library Director, to talk about the amazing year planned for 2017.  Listen as Ms. Aiken details ongoing and new projects, services and resources from the South Carolina State Library. If you've ever wondered what the State Library does, or if you are curious what The SC State Library has planned for the new year, this is the podcast for you. There is much to look forward to in the upcoming year.  Just remember, “Be Kind to one another.” 

Want to know what you can do to help conserve South Carolina's natural world? Join us on January 31 at the South Carolina State Library as we learn about more about this topic with David Shelley, Education Coordinator at the Congaree National Park's Old-Growth Bottomland Forest Research and Education Center. The CongaRee-flections presentation will address several conservation education developments affecting both Congaree National Park and South Carolina more broadly.

The SCSL is hosting two events in February that explore South Carolina's African-American Heritage:

John Nelson will discuss plant identification, offer hands-on learning opportunities

Calling all nature-lovers! Join us on Friday, January 20, from noon-1:00 p.m. at the South Carolina State Library as we learn about wintertime botany with John Nelson, Curator of the A. C. Moore Herbarium.

Join us for this month's author talk and book signing with Stephen Chesley, Jim Casada, and Jacob Rivers for The Egret’s Plumes published by USC Press. An inspiring illustrated story that illuminates the lessons the natural world has to offer. Thursday, January 26, 2017, noon-1:00 p.m.