Did you know the SC State Librarian was elected by the General Assembly every two years? Here's a photo of SC State Librarian Miss L. H. Laborde from the 1907 Handbook of South Carolina published by the SC State Department of Agriculture, Commerce and Immigration.

It's all business at Richland Library as it celebrates Business and Jobs Week, June 15- 19th. The week will spotlight the success of the library's Business and Job Center, which for five years has assisted customers with more than 58,000 job-related requests.

In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Richland Library Business and Job Center, library locations will present special programming and participate in the Hiring Our Heroes Career Fair at Fort Jackson.

Richland Library Business and Jobs Week highlights, include:

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.

General William T. Sherman’s psychological war on civilians is coming alive through the South Carolina State Library’s Talking Book Services department. USC Journalism Professor Doug Fisher (in window) is shown recording Sherman’s Flame and Blame Campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas … and the burning of Columbia in the State Library’s book recording studio in Columbia with Ron Whitten, Studio and Equipment Coordinator.

Beaufort County Library is a recipient of a grant of $16,400 to host the Big Read in Beaufort County. A program of the National Endowment for the Arts, The Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. Managed by Arts Midwest, this initiative offers grants to support innovative community reading programs designed around a single book.

Join us on Wednesday, July 15 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. for an in-depth webinar on how to search the South Carolina Collection Historical Archives from NewsBank - a custom collection of select titles from America's Historical Newspapers. Hosted by the South Carolina State Library, presenters will include Dr.

The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) announced the winners of the 2015 Teen Video Challenge.  The Teen Video Challenge is a national competition for teens to get involved with reading and their public library's summer reading program.  Winning videos were selected at the state level to be recognized as an official CSLP Teen Video Challenge winner for 2015.

Join us on Wednesday, June 10 from noon to 1:00 p.m. for Speaker @ the Center featuring Kathleen Robbins, Into the Flatland, published by the University of South Carolina Press. 

The School of Medicine Library announces its third digital collection, the History of the USC School of Medicine Columbia. This collection includes early photographs of faculty, staff and students, all commencement programs through 2014, a scrapbook of press cuttings, and documents which relate to the founding of the School of Medicine.