The Beaufort County Public Library system is a partner in a new and unique summer program. The Lowcountry Cruiser stops at the St. Helena, Beaufort and Lobeco libraries Monday through Friday, hoping to encourage children to pick up some grub and grab a book too. Libraries in the Lowcountry see hundreds of kids a day for various summer programs and recreational reading. By the end of summer, libraries in Beaufort County together get up to 4,000 kids a day. This program is an extension funded by the South Carolina Department of Agriculture.

Check out A History of Transforming Library Services for/with Teens through Continuing Education by Denise R.

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. This article discusses the results of a survey conducted in early 2017 of South Carolina academic libraries to study this larger trend moving to learning-centered spaces. Forty two academic library administrators responded and shared how they are re-purposing their library spaces as they work to improve student and faculty user experiences.

Watch WLTX's news piece on the 2018 StoryfestSC kickoff to statewide summer reading programs at the WLTX News 19 website. 

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 theme is "Illuminating the Future" of libraries. The focus is on highlighting the bright future of libraries, and how libraries are at the center of the future of the communities th

Join us from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 7, 2018, for this month's author talk and book signing: Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College by Dr. Katherine Chaddock. Richard Greener’s story demonstrates the human realities of racial politics in the fight for abolition, the struggle for equal rights, and subsequent backslide into legal segregation. This is the biography of a man who exemplified America’s discomfiting perspectives on race and skin color.

The South Carolina Digital State Documents Depository provides access to publications produced by state agencies and state-supported academic institutions. 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 League of Women Voters (LWV) of the Columbia Area announced the launch of the nonpartisan election resource VOTE411.org on May 22 10:00 a.m. at Richland Library. This “one-stop-shop” for statewide election information provides simple, helpful tools to help South Carolina voters navigate the voting process for the June 12 primaries through the November 6 general election. VOTE411.org provides candidate information, voter registration tools, polling place information and other helpful Election Day information.