The South Carolina Digital State Documents Depository provides access to state agencies' publications. These publications provide citizens with crucial information about state government, including statistics, annual accountability reports, and data on a wide variety of topics related to the state. The December 2020 list of new South Carolina State Documents is now available.

The South Carolina State Library's Talking Book Services (TBS) Program is now serving patrons with an innovative new service called Duplication on Demand (DoD). DoD allows patrons to receive almost any book available on BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download). When patrons order books or automatic selection orders books for patrons, they are recorded on a cartridge and sent out within a few days. There's no waiting for other patrons to return a copy; all downloadable books are always available.

This SC Read Eat Grow recipe is courtesy of the Chef Savvy blog. Visit our YouTube channel for a video demonstration of how ot prepare these no-bake energy bites and other SC Read Eat Grow favorites.

Did you know the South Carolina State Library has a digitized Historical Books Collection? This collection provides access to digitized copies of selected books from the collection of the South Carolina State Library that are in the public domain or with author permission.

Join ReadSC and the Georgia Center for the Book on January 7, 2021, at 7:00 p.m., for another On My Mind event. Editors Sean Patrick O'Rourke and Lesli K. Pace will discuss their companion books Like Wildfire: The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-Ins and the forthcoming On Fire: Five Civil Rights Sit-Ins and the Rhetoric of Protest.

This month Governor Henry McMaster signed a bill making the South Carolina Governor’s School for Agriculture at John de la Howe the first of its kind in the United States. The school, which sits on 1,310 acres of farmland in McCormick County, is a public residential high school for students in grades 10 through 12.

The South Carolina State Library has long supported summer reading programs as a way to promote the joy of reading for fun, connect communities, and to encourage lifelong library users. The SC State Library is also proud to support the Winter Reading Program to encourage patrons of all ages to be library users and avid readers. 

SC Humanities is pleased to announce a special South Carolina tour of Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, an exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution that explores the democratic process: its freedoms, responsibilities, complexities, and successes. Developed as part of the Museum on Main Street (MOMS) program, this exhibit is designed especially for small cultural organizations and rural audiences that lack regular access to traveling exhibitions due to space and cost limitations.