Accepting Nominations

South Carolina Notable State Documents Award

The Notable State Documents Awards Program recognizes outstanding state publications produced during the calendar year. Categories include physical or digital monographs (individual publications), serials, and websites. We will review nominations and select the final candidates for judging.

As we begin planning for this year's competition and program, we remind state agencies to please submit nominations by December 31, 2021.

Please visit our Notable State Documents Awards Program site for guidelines, and to see past winners. To submit nominations, please complete the nomination form

We also accept nominations via email. Contact Sheila Dorsey, Government Documents Librarian, at sdorsey@statelibrary.sc.govor (803) 734-7065, to schedule a delivery to the South Carolina State Library, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC, 29201.

Upcoming Event

Photo of Eric Barnes and a cover of a Historyman comic.

Speaker at the Center Series: Historyman Comics author, Eric K. Barnes, discusses "An Army of a Different Kind"

August 27, 2026, 6:00 PM

Please join us for our next Speaker at the Center talk with Historyman, Eric Barnes, who is on the trail of our American history through a number of projects, including the Historyman Podcast, Historyman blog, and Historyman Comics. These projects seek to illustrate and educate future generations about the challenges of the past, the hard-fought victories, and the visionary hopes of those who went before us.