Join the Richland Library for an evening with bestselling and award-winning playwright, poet, and novelist Pearl Cleage as she discusses her newest book, Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs. When: 6:30 p.m., Thursday, May 12, 2016. Where: SC State Museum, 301 Gervais Street.
Over 2,000 students from across South Carolina will march to the State House grounds during the 2016 SC Read-In, celebrating the magic of books alongside beauty queens, politicians and marching bands on April 14.
National Library Week starts April 10, and the staff at the South Carolina State Library is hard at work making sure our facility embodies the observance’s “Libraries Transform” theme. Listed below are some of the ways we are continuing to adapt to the needs of the communities we serve.
Talking Book Services
Join us on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at noon for a free lunchtime author talk and book signing with Pat McNeely who will discuss her book, Lincoln, Sherman, Davis and the Lost Confederate Gold. The destinies of President Lincoln, General Sherman, and Confederate President Davis are forever bound to the Lost Confederate Gold, but questions still linger about those astonishing events. Bo
The Calhoun County Library will be hosting a special “Hive Warming Party” in celebration of housing the 189th installed bee hive given by The Bee Cause Project.
As part of National Library Week the Laurens County Public Library System will celebrate 75 years of Bookmobile/Outreach services on Friday, April 15, 2016, from 3-5 PM at the Laurens County library. The public is invited to attend.
Join us for an evening with Ha Jin, National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, on April 28, 2016, from 6pm-8pm at the SC State Museum. Jin sets many of his stories and novels in China, in the fictional Muji City. He has won the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting (1999).
Seven years after his death in 1616, William Shakespeare’s friends compiled 36 of his plays into a book, Mr.
Last October our state experienced record amounts of rainfall and widespread flooding. While our local rivers provide us with vast recreational and economic opportunities, it is important to understand their natural history.
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