New October 2023 Electronic State Publications

Cover of The Lettered Olive: S.C. Sea Grant Consortium Education News

Agency newsletters are one category of state publications collected by SC State Library. Historically, state agency newsletters came out in print format, but today they are typically sent by email. SCSL has made it a practice to subscribe to and receive state agency e-newsletters. We have a process for converting them into PDFs, and we then add these items to our catalog for digital items. One such agency newsletter comes from the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, the state agency established in 1978 to manage the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program for South Carolina. The SC Sea Grant Consortium’s newsletter, The Lettered Olive: S.C. Sea Grant Consortium Education News, has an interesting name and clean style, making it our featured publication for October 2023. By the way, the lettered olive is a species of large predatory sea snail and is the official SC state shell.

The complete list of new electronic South Carolina state documents is available. The South Carolina Digital State Documents Depository provides access to SC state agency publications. These publications provide citizens with crucial information about state government, including statistics, reports, and data on a wide variety of topics related to the state.  
 
For more information about our documents depository, visit our online guide.

Upcoming Event

Len Lawson phot and the cover of his book, New Names for Stars.

Speaker at the Center Presents Len Lawson, Poet and Author

June 16, 2026, 6:00 PM

Please join us for our next Speaker at the Center talk on June 16th at 6:00 for our talk with Len Lawson, Poet and Author of New Names for Stars, accompanied by Miho Kinnas and Kathleen Nalley. Len Lawson is the winner of the Lit Fox Award (Lit Fox Books, 2026). He will be joined by Japanese poet Miho Kinnas and author Kathleen Nalley in reading selections from his newest release.

Photo of Tom Elmore in a kilt in a cemetary.

Speaker at the Center: Tom Elmore presents the "Swamp Fox" in Media

June 18, 2026, 2:30 PM

Historian Tom Elmore, who has over twenty years of experience as a book, TV, and film reviewer, takes a look at some of the major works about Francis Marion and examines what they got right and what they got wrong, with a particular emphasis placed on the 1950s Disney mini-series.  Prepare to be educated, entertained, and amused!