State Library Announces Partnership with South Carolina Connections Academy

The partnership emphasizes library usage for face to face meetings between students and teachers, use of online statewide services such as Discus, South Carolina’s Virtual Library.
 
 
Columbia, SC – The South Carolina State Library is pleased to announce a new partnership with South Carolina Connections Academy (SCCA).  The partnership emphasizes library usage for face to face meetings between students and teachers, use of online statewide services such as Discus, South Carolina&r

357 South Carolina Libraries and Schools Receive Picturing America Award

Picturing America is a free educational resource that helps teach American history and culture by bringing some of our nation’s greatest works of art directly to classrooms and libraries.
 
At no cost, recipients receive a set of high-quality reproductions of 40 pieces of great American art (each approximately 24 inches by  36 inches) and an illustrated teachers resource book with information about the artists and artwork and lesson ideas for all grade levels to facilitate the use of the reproductions in core subje

South Carolina Center for the Book Announces 2008 Award Recipients

Columbia, SC –The South Carolina State Library’s Center for the Book announces the recipients of the 2008 South Carolina Center for the Book Awards for Writing, Teaching and Literary Arts Advocacy.  This year’s award winners are noted South Carolina author Mary Alice Monroe, for Writing; Eileen Bergreen of Hilton Head Island Middle School, for Teaching; and the Arts Council of Beaufort County, for Literary Arts Advocacy.