National Book Award-winning author Sherman Alexie will be discussing his life as a writer, including his debut children’s picture book, Thunder Boy Jr.(Little, Brown & Co., hardcover, $17.99, on sale 5/10/16), at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities Smith

The South Carolina State Library will be closed on Monday, May 30, 2016 for a state holiday. We will reopen on Tuesday, May 31, 2016.  

Meet this year’s celebrated authors at this daylong event at the Greenville County Public Library on Saturday, May 14, celebrating Southern fiction. Authors’ books will be available for purchase. This program is generously underwritten by the Friends of the Greenville County Library System. Email explore@greenvillelibrary.org or call 864-527-9293 for more information. 

Did you know the SC State Library has a digitized SC books collection? Here's a photo of Capt. Grady L. Patterson Jr. and a ground crew with their F-80 during 1954 from "S.C.A.N.G. THE FIRST 25 YEARS". This book recounts the 25-year history of the SC Air National Guard. It reflects on a heritage left by citizen-soldiers in service throughout the world.

Terry Cobb, manager of the Clover Public Library, was selected to receive the Public Library Employee Excellence Award for 2016 by the Friends of South Carolina Libraries (FOSCL) at their recent annual meeting.  FOSCL is a statewide organization that provides support to local Friends of Libraries groups.

Go back a bit in time and celebrate National Poetry Month with this Statewide Poetry Anthology from the SC Arts Commission, "The Cobra's Apartment is Disaster" from 1978-1979. Here is a selected poem from Tommy Scott Young titled Walking. To download this document from the SC State Library's digital collections, please visit http://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/11722

WALKING

to the moon of me

i sleepwalk the number

i count the lines

i walk the number

Join the Richland Library for an evening with bestselling and award-winning playwright, poet, and novelist Pearl Cleage as she discusses her newest book, Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs. When: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, May 12, 2016. Where: SC State Museum, 301 Gervais Street.

Over 2,000 students from across South Carolina will march to the State House grounds during the 2016 SC Read-In, celebrating the magic of books alongside beauty queens, politicians and marching bands on April 14.

The event, now in its 25^th year, is meant to encourage a love of reading in children of all ages. Students, teachers and adult chaperones from 80 different schools are expected to travel to Columbia for the event, the largest number of students in the Read-In’s history.

National Library Week starts April 10, and the staff at the South Carolina State Library is hard at work making sure our facility embodies the observance’s “Libraries Transform” theme. Listed below are some of the ways we are continuing to adapt to the needs of the communities we serve.

Talking Book Services

Join us on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at noon for a free lunchtime author talk and book signing with Pat McNeely who will discuss her book, Lincoln, Sherman, Davis and the Lost Confederate Gold. The destinies of President Lincoln, General Sherman, and Confederate President Davis are forever bound to the Lost Confederate Gold, but questions still linger about those astonishing events. Books will be available for purchase and signing. All programs will take place from noon to 1:00 p.m.