Information Opens Doors

The State Library is pleased to announce additional webinars for the series, South Carolina Government—Bit by Bit, on South Carolina government websites.  These one-hour sessions address popular topics provided by South Carolina state agencies. 

The State Library is pleased to announce two fall classes that are free and open to state employees, library staff and the public. 

Finding a Funder for Your Nonprofit Organization - This class helps individuals locate information on grants available from private foundations and corporations using the State Library’s electronic and print resources.  November 14, 9:30am-noon.

Proposal Writing Basics - This class will focus on what needs to be included in all your grant proposals.  December 11, 9:30am-noon.

Classes will be held at the South Carolina State Library, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia.  To register, click on the class title above.

For more information, contact Dawn Mullin at 803-737-3762 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The Library of Congress released a new website for federal legislative information last week.  The site is a public beta site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information.  Eventually the site will replace the THOMAS system, which has been in use since 1995.  The Congress.gov site includes bill status and summary, bill text and member profiles and other new features like comprehensive searching across bill text, summary and statuses; persistent URLs for search results; Members’ legislative history and biographical profiles; and maintenance of existing features such as links to video of the House and Senate floor, top searched bills and the save/share feature. The site also features several new multimedia presentations on the legislative process.