StoryfestSC 2013 is June 1st

The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) announced the winners of the 2013 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 2013. South Carolina’s winning video is titled “Day of the Living Books” and was sponsored by the Georgetown County Library.

LibraryScienceList.com recently ranked the South Carolina State Library second on their list of social media friendliness for 2013.

Do libraries need social media?  According to the American Library Association’s 2013 State of America’s Libraries Report, the answer is a resounding yes. Libraries have made many changes over the years as technology has evolved, and they continue to embrace new technologies that improve their ability to provide resources to the community, including social media.

Furman University’s James B. Duke Library has announced the winner of the inaugural South Carolina Poetry Archives Book Prize.

Warren Slesinger, a longtime resident of Beaufort, South Carolina, has worked as an editor, marketing manager, and sales manager at several publishers, including the University of South Carolina Press. He edited the anthologies Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry and The Whole Story: Editors on Fiction, both from The Bench Press. He has received both an Ingram Merrill Grant and the South Carolina Literary Arts Fellowship. His poems have appeared in notable journals such as The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, New Letters, The Sewanee Review, The South Carolina Review, and Southern Humanities Review.