The South Carolina State Library will be closed on Thursday, May 29, 2014, for staff development and training.  The Library will reopen Friday, May 30, 2014.

Looking for a summer activity for your student? Several South Carolina agencies sponsor camps and creative programs throughout the summer.  The State Museum has a list of day camps and programs.  Summer reading programs (sponsored by the State Library) are offered at the county libraries throughout the state.

Libraries often have photographs, local histories, maps, family papers and/or genealogical documents that could reach a wider audience if digitized and made available online.  The South Carolina State Library’s new Digitization in a Box Project allows South Carolina’s public libraries with limited resources an opportunity to highlight their unique collections.

The Columbia Museum of Art is curating a student photography exhibition entitled "46 Main Street, South Carolina: The place to be in all 46 counties." The goal of the exhibition is to capture a streetscape in all 46 South Carolina counties. It can be any street in your county that you consider the "main drag."

Do you enjoy listening to audiobooks in your car or when working out? NoveList Plus, provided by the South Carolina State Library through Discus - South Carolina's Virtual Library, now includes audiobook recommendations? Visit the NoveList Plus page to find listening suggestions for your next audiobook!

The Greenville County Library System is the winner of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Agencies (ASCLA)/Keystone Library Automation System (KLAS) & National Organization on Disability (NOD) Award.

The South Carolina Association for Volunteer Administration (SCAVA) and the Governor's Office are pleased to announce that the 2014 Annual Governor's Volunteer Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at the Lace House in Columbia and will be followed by an awards luncheon.

Nine awards will be awarded in the following categories:

The University of South Carolina, the School of Library and Information Science, and the Carolina Children's Literature Consortium invite you to attend the second US-China Children's Literature Symposium at the University of South Carolina, June 22- 24. This event, co-sponsored by Ocean University in Qingdao, China and the USC Confucius Institute, will feature research presentations by scholars from China, the US and Canada. Click here for more information.

The University of South Carolina and the Carolina Children's Literature Consortium invite you to attend the 41st Annual Children's Literature Association Conference, which will take place June 18-21, 2014 in Columbia, SC.

Old scrapbooks, family letters, photographs and other precious reminders of our past, are items that the Georgetown County Library works daily to preserve. But what about your personal family photos, and items of the past? How do you preserve them for future generations?