Art & Natural History in South Carolina Exhibit

The South Carolina State Library is hosting a new exhibit, Art & Natural History in South Carolina.Visitors to the Library may view the selection of titles from our Rare Book Collection that highlight the natural word in the arts, sciences, and agriculture in South Carolina. The Library is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and the exhibit will run through the end of January, 2017. For more information, please contact Jessica Dame, Digital Curation and Preservation Librarian at 803-734-0583 or jdame@statelibrary.sc.gov. 

Young Readers Who Write to Favorite Authors Can Win up to $100

Young readers in grades 4-12 are invited to write a personal letter to an author for the Letters about Literature (LAL) contest, a national reading and writing promotion program. The letter can be to any author (living or dead) from any genre (fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic) explaining how that author's work changed the student's life or view of the world.
 
Prizes will be awarded on both the state and national levels.

New Website Offers Reliable Information on Medications

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have launched a new website that provides visual images and information about medications in pill form.  Pillbox will work with other drug information resources from NIH and FDA including, DailyMed, and the Drug Information Portal.  A short search query will reveal several pill images, whi