SC Libraries

Do you experience a disconnect with families you serve? Is there cultural awareness within your library?

SCLA is sponsoring two summer workshops - register today!

iTeach 5: iSpeak, iPresent, iTalk 

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Hollings Library, Thomas Cooper Library, USC Campus

Check out A History of Transforming Library Services for/with Teens through Continuing Education by Denise R. Lyons, the Deputy Director of Statewide Development at the South Carolina State Library. 

Over the last two decades academic libraries in the United States have experienced a paradigm shift from book-centered spaces to learning-centered spaces as they work to provide services and resources in the new ways that users consume information.

The 2018 South Carolina Library Association & Southeastern Library Association Joint Conference will be held at the Hilton Greenville, October 31-November 2. This year’s conference t

The Richland Library Friends and Foundation continues to award the Ethel Bolden Minority Scholarship which was established in 2010 in honor and recognition of Mrs. Ethel Bolden’s years of service to the Richland County community and its libraries.

Public libraries may apply for grants to host public programs around the PBS series “The Great American Read,” an eight-part television and online series designed to spark a national conversation about reading and the books that have inspired, moved, and shaped us, the ALA Public Programs Office announced. 

National Library Week is coming up on April 8-14, 2018! The Library History Round Table (of the American Library Association) News and Notes is celebrating this special time for libraries by publishing informal essays (even just a few hundred words) about histories of specific libraries.

Congratulations to Calhoun County Library director Kristen Simensen on being named one of Library Journal's 2018 Movers and Shakers.  You can read about why Kristen was named a “Change Agent” among Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers at the

The 2018 LIBRIS Conference will be held at the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology in Florence, SC on May 18, 2018.  Registration is $35/person and payment can be submitted via Eventbrite or by check by registering