Press Release

Did you know your South Carolina State Library card gives you access to ProQuest's Ebook Central?

Join ReadSC - the South Carolina Center for the Book - for a virtual author talk featuring Erica Danylchak, co-author of the book Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement. This event will take place online on Thursday, October 29, 2020, from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. EDT.

The South Carolina Digital State Documents Depository provides access to publications produced by state agencies and state-supported academic institutions.

The South Carolina State Library is the recipient of a grant from the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM). This grant is the second from the NNLM to the State Library, to be used to purchase “kitchen in a box” kits for rural library locations and provide health literacy and culinary training for library staff.

Letters About Literature is a reading-writing contest that encourages students to write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre, explaining how that author’s work changed your way of thinking about the world or yourself.

Banned Books Week (September 27 - October 3, 2020) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.

First Lieutenant Clarence West accomplished a great deal before he was killed in action in Germany during World War II. One of eight children West was an honor roll student at North Charleston High School before joining the military. In addition to his military service, he worked for the North State Lumber Corporation. He earned the Combat Infantry Badge before his death on November 5, 1944.