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 new August South Carolina State Documents monthly publication provides a description, author, and link to the full-text for each new agency document published in August.

Talking Book Services advisory committee member, Ann Humphries is featured in SC Parks Director's newsletter column: 

Looking for some book related events and happenings? Be sure to check out the State Library's Center for the Book events page!

Catch up on what's going on at the South Carolina State Library and in libraries across the state.  Feel free to print out this month's issue and place in your library staff lounge and forward to a friend or colleague.  Sign up for our general email list so you can get a More email alert!

The South Carolina State Library’s Center for the invites you to Speaker @ the Center at noon on Thursday, September 25.

Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr., and William Robert Judd will discuss their book, The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History of Innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom (USC Press). This is the first book to illustrate and describe the implements and machines used to prepare Carolina rice for overseas markets.

Do you know the slogan? “Be disaster aware. Take action to prepare” is also appropriate for South Carolinians, who have experienced some devastating hurricanes in September.  The South Carolina Emergency Management Division has a special page on preparing families.  Be sure to scroll down the page for the games!

EveryLibrary is a partner organization for National Voter Registration Day 2014.  Voter registration and voter engagement are important to all the libraries we work with.  But an engaged and informed electorate is basic for the future of libraries. So we’re encouraging libraries to become partner organizations, too.  Your library can share information about voter registration in your communities.  Your library can register people to vote.

Join us for the official book launch and reception of The Spirit of an Activist: The Life and Work of I. DeQuincey Newman, published by the University of South Carolina Press and edited by Sadye L. M. Logan with foreword by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and prologue by James E. Clyburn. The event will be held Thursday, September 25 at the South Carolina State Library in Columbia, 1500 Senate Street from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Parking is available in the lot behind the library off Bull Street.

Do you know someone who has a visual impairment or physical disability that prevents them from enjoying reading?  Check out our Talking Book Services program and like us on Facebook.

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Now is the time to be aware of political and legislative events.  The South Carolina State Library is pleased to offer a free bring-your-own lunch and learn session on Internet and library resources to be ready for elections, South Carolina legislative topics and laws, and United States government contacts.  Make sure you know how and where to vote, contact representatives, and keep up with news and analysis, all from your computer and your library!