National Poetry Month!

The Berkeley County Library System and Berkeley County Government invite county residents to celebrate the grand opening of the Hanahan Library in its new location, 1216 Murray Court on Sunday, May 4, 2014 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. The new 6,700 square foot Hanahan Library replaces the old branch located at in the Yeaman’s Hall Plaza on Yeaman’s Hall Road. Berkeley County Government’s Capital Improvement fund made this building project possible.

Did you know that our Discus databases are really current?  A search in MasterFILE Premier today pulled up 225 articles about Ukraine from not only magazines and journals that are well known to readers, but also newswires and web news from today also!  For a chance to read multiple opinions and world views of the today’s news, do a quick search in this database to bring up fulltext material in sources you normally wouldn’t see!  Discus is a service of the South Carolina State Library and is funded by an appropriation from the South Carolina General Assembly through the K-12 School Technology Initiative, and the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The South Carolina Academy of Authors will honor writers Gilbert Allen, Janette Turner Hospital, John Lane and the late Robert Quillen on April 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Furman University’s Younts Conference Center in Greenville, S.C.