David Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States, and Constance Potter, genealogy expert at the National Archives, visited the Headquarters of the Spartanburg County Public Library on Friday, April 20th.

The South Carolina State Library is pleased to announce the selection of the most notable South Carolina state government documents of 2011. The selection is announced annually in honor of Freedom of Information Day, March 16, the birthday of President James Madison, an early proponent of citizen access to government information.

The South Carolina State Library is pleased to announce the winners of the Sixth Annual National Library Week Day in the Life of South Carolina Libraries photo contest.

LOOK AT ME! Do I have your attention? What do I need to do to change the world? Catching the attention of a passerby or reader can be a challenge. Teachers, authors and media people work hard to construct written materials in ways that will make a reader, even a casual one, stop what he is doing in his busy world and take note of the message.

The Letters About Literature program, sponsored by the South Carolina Center for the Book and the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores, is a national reading and writing promotion contest.

The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) announced the winners of the 2012 Teen Video Challenge. The Teen Video Challenge is a national competition for teens to get involved with reading and their public library's summer reading program. Winning videos were selected at the state level to be recognized as an official CSLP Teen Video Challenge winner for 2012.

Watch this episode of The Reading Rooster Recommends for some great new anniversary book titles and more!

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The newly formed South Carolina Freegal Consortium has joined Library Ideas' network of Public Library websites that offer access to songs from Sony Music's catalog of legendary artists.

The service will allow the four South Carolina Public Libraries to increase the size and diversity of its collection by offering access to over 3.3 million songs.

The Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announces, in cooperation with ALA President Molly Raphael and ALA President-Elect Maureen Sullivan, that the South Carolina Library Association (SCLA) is the recipient of the 2012 ALA Presidential Award for Advocacy, sponsored by ALTAFF.