The South Carolina State Library is currently hosting an exhibit entitled Shadows of the Gullah Geechee.  This exhibit showcases the photography work of Pete Marovich which explores the lives and culture of the Gullah Geechee people in communities from Hog Hammock on Sapelo Island, Georgia to Mosquito Beach on Sol Legare Island, South Carolina.

The South Carolina State Library is pleased to announce a new digital collection of McColl High School Yearbooks in partnership with Marian Wright Edelman Public Library of Marlboro County. The McColl High School Yearbooks collection is made up of High School yearbooks from the McColl community in South Carolina between the years of 1949 and 1967 and contains yearbooks from two former High Schools: the Robert Fletcher Memorial School and the McColl High Sc

The SC State Library is proud to announce that award-winning author Carmen Agra Deedy will be featured at StoryfestSC 2018, the state's summer reading kick-off event!  Deedy has

INVITATION FOR PUBLIC TESTIMONY - Your input is wanted on these six agencies: SCETV Commission; Commission on Indigent Defense; Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism; Commission on Prosecution Coordination; and Department of Revenue

Attention library staff members in South Carolina! Join us for a free informational webinar on Wednesday March 7, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. on how to use Mobilize. The State Library offers new, updated discussion groups with Mobilize - an online community social space, member directory, and an outreach center - all in one place. Learn which groups are of interest to you and your staff, how to register and send a message to the group, and how to log in to the Mobilize site to chat with other group members and manage your account profile and settings. 

This annual event, sponsored by the South Carolina Association of School Librarians and the South Carolina State Library, lets students show why kids who read succeed. Each year, a specific theme is selected by the planning committee. Participants are encouraged to bring their favorite book to read on the State House grounds after the event and some even dress as their favorite literary character.

The South Carolina State Library is pleased to offer mobilize online discussion groups. Mobilize is an online community social space, member directory, and an outreach center - all in one place. Please visit our online discussion groups webpage and sign up today. For more information about mobilize, please visit their website.

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.

In 2017, the South Carolina State Library hosted the first Young Minds Dreaming Poetry Contest, with more than 600 students participating from across the state.