South Carolina State Library

Poems: In Honor of South Carolina Tricentennial

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In honor of South Carolina Tricentennial celebration, Archibald Rutledge, Poet Laureate of South Carolina, wrote this collection of poems about his home state. Rutledge (1883-1973) was born in McClellanville and had family ties to many prominent South Carolina families, including the Rutledges, Middletons, Pinckneys, and Horrys. After retiring as an English professor in Pennsylvania, Rutledge returned to South Carolina after being appointed the state’s first poet laureate in 1934.

Hugo Blue: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Illustrations

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Hugo Blue, a collection of student writing and drawing, records what it means to experience a terrible hurricane. This anthology informs and reassures others who have to go through a similar disaster. Students who experienced Hurricane Hugo in September 1989, either by being in the path of the storm or by hearing and reading about its destruction, shared their experiences in vivid emotions and descriptions.

I Could Strangle the Wind: An Anthology of Prison Poetry

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In the early 1980s, English instructor Dale Alan Bailes held writing workshops in prisons across South Carolina. While attendance was often inconsistent, Bailes said, “they come and go; I keep a core of 4 at the men’s prison and 3 at the Women’s Correctional Center who attend every class and write poems both in and out of class.” Bailes considered it a privilege to teach these students something about writing, something about putting the pieces of themselves together through using words.

Read-In

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More than 2000 students from across the state will gather at the South Carolina State House on Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, to celebrate reading at the 2025 South Carolina Read-In.

Library of Congress Magazine

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Library of Congress Magazine (LCM) is published bimonthly to tell the Library's stories, to showcase its many talented staff, and to share and promote the use of the resources of the world's largest library.

Library of Congress Near East Collections

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This guide along with two other volumes (the Near East Section and The African Section) covers several countries and regions from Southern African to the Maghreb and from the Middle East to Central Asia. The division coordinates and directs the component sections. Each section plays a vital role in the Library’s acquisitions program.

Library of Congress Law Library

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The Law Collection found in the Library of Congress - most notably in the Law Library of Congress, the world’s largest law library - constitutes a unique resource for Congress and the nation. Scholars, students, practitioners, and researches in law and related disciplines will find the breadth of the law collection, and in many areas its depth.

Library of Congress Hispanic and Portuguese Collections

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The Hispanic and Portuguese collections describe broadly and deeply Native American cultures; the cultures of the independent states of Latin America and the Caribbean; the colonial histories of Spain, Portugal, France, and England in what is now the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America.