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 South Carolina State Library is looking for Spring, Summer, and Fall participants for its Digitization in a Box Project!

What is the Digitization in a Box Project?

The Digitization in a Box Project allows public libraries in South Carolina to borrow scanning equipment, hardware, and software from the State Library to start a new digitization project.

Who can apply?

Any public library who would like to digitize a collection, and is in need of the technology, training, and support!

Is there any criteria?

The South Carolina State Library is seeking state government agency participation in the South Carolina State Agency Social Media Library (scsocialmedialibrary.org), which provides public access to social media activity from partner South Carolina state agencies.

The South Carolina State Library is collaborating with ArchiveSocial (archivesocial.com), a social media archiving company based in Durham, NC to create this searchable library.

The South Carolina State Library is pleased to announce the participants and mentors from South Carolina for the upcoming ILEAD (Innovative Librarians Explore, Apply and Discover) USA sessions that kick off March 23, 2015 in Columbia.

Join us for an author talk and book signing by John Mark Sibley-Jones, for his novel, By the Red Glare, a Civil War novel of divergent lives and pervasive perils amid the burning of Columbia, South Carolina. Sibley-Jones novel is published by USC Press.

By the end of 2015, if not sooner, all of the Talking Book Services audio cassette books will be out of circulation. The National Library Service (NLS) for the blind has been working to convert as many of them as they can to digital. Many are already available for download from the BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) system.

As fewer and fewer cassettes will be sent to library users, Talking Book Services patrons should consider returning the old yellow cassette player to the State Library's Talking Book Services.

Civil Rights Icons, The Friendship 9, Set To Have Convictions Vacated 53 Years Later Thanks To Local Author Influenced By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And The King Center

The Friends of the York County Library recently announced that Martha Ferguson is the 2014 recipient of the Joann W. McMaster Volunteer of the Year award at a reception to honor Friends of the Library volunteers. The award is named in honor of Joann McMaster, who helped found the Friends of the York County Library organization in 1975 and served as its first president.

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.

Each year, the staff of the South Carolina State Library partners with Palmetto Health’s Holiday, Helpings and Hope program to provide gifts to a family in need. The program supports cancer and blood disorder patients and their families. This year, many gifts were delivered to one such family in need.