Need more one-on-one research time with a librarian? Schedule an online appointment and we will be happy to meet with you virtually for all your reference needs. It's simple! Just visit the appointment page and select your day and time and a librarian will meet you online. Available hours are Monday - Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Charleston County Public Library has partnered with Spoleto Festival USA for three book discussions, reflecting themes found in Spoleto’s opera Omar. The second talk on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 - 6:30 p.m., will examine Lawrence Hill's Someone Knows My Name. In this fiction work, Hill, an award winning author, tells the story of the injustices of slavery and its toll on people.

Is your library's website accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities?  Would you like to learn about what issues visitors with disabilities may face in using the library's website and virtual services and how to make improvements? Join us for this free webinar on Friday, February 5, 2021, at noon. Register here.

Join us Thursday, February 11, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. for an author talk featuring Marjy Marj. She will share with us her most recently published book, Same Elephants. Marjy Marj’s anticipated follow-up to The Shimmigrant is an enlightening, introspective, heartwarming novel about four friends from diverse backgrounds. Sasha Badu is an immigrant in search of a better life. After meeting Rakiya Muhammad, Jane Taylor and Aviva Schwartz at a political event, the four become fast friends.

Did you know the South Carolina State Library offers a free jobs posting web page? Academic, public, and special libraries that have available positions are encouraged to fill out our online form to submit any and all available positions. For details, please visit statelibrary.sc.gov/jobs.

The same great online resources can now be found under a new name, O’Reilly Online Learning. The South Carolina State Library provides cardholders free access to 35K+ books, 30K+ hours of video, curated learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and O'Reilly conference videos! If you’re 18 or older and reside in South Carolina, visit our Get a Library Card page to register online so that you can access a world of information.

The South Carolina Digital State Documents Depository provides access to state agencies' publications. These publications provide citizens with crucial information about state government, including statistics, annual accountability reports, and data on a wide variety of topics related to the state. The December 2020 list of new South Carolina State Documents is now available.

The South Carolina State Library's Talking Book Services (TBS) Program is now serving patrons with an innovative new service called Duplication on Demand (DoD). DoD allows patrons to receive almost any book available on BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download). When patrons order books or automatic selection orders books for patrons, they are recorded on a cartridge and sent out within a few days. There's no waiting for other patrons to return a copy; all downloadable books are always available.