The South Carolina State Library has developed partnerships with agencies and organizations having similar goals, objectives and customers. The Library staff maintains partnerships with library and related associations to collaborate on promoting and marketing services and resources to citizens on an ongoing basis. Partnerships are also maintained with disability consumer groups and other state agencies whose key customers are or include members of the disability community. The Library is a leader in facilitating the development of collaborative partnerships with libraries and related agencies and organizations throughout the state. The following are organizations the South Carolina State Library supports and works with to fulfill the mission of the agency.
- Able South Carolina
- Access South Carolina IT (ASCIT)
- Carolina Family Engagement Center (CFEC)
- First Steps to School Readiness
- Humanities Council, South Carolina
- Internal Revenue Service, Small Business/Self-Employed Division
- K-12 Technology Committee
- Parenting Center (Lexington School District 1)
- PASOs
- South Carolina Arts Commission
- South Carolina Assistive Technology Exchange Program (SCATP)
- South Carolina Business One Stop
- South Carolina Center for Community Literacy
- South Carolina Center for Fathers & Families
- South Carolina Child Care Resource & Referral Network
- South Carolina Commission for the Blind
- South Carolina Council on Competitiveness
- South Carolina Department of Archives & History*
- South Carolina Department of Education
- South Carolina Department of Education – Adult Education
- South Carolina Digital Library
- South Carolina Education Oversight Committee
- South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV)
- South Carolina Independent School Association
- South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind
- South Carolina State Library Foundation
- University of South Carolina College of Education Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Center (REM)
- Vision Institute of South Carolina
Library Organizations
- Association of Public Library Administrators (South Carolina)
- Carolina Cooperative Library Services
- Friends of South Carolina Libraries
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM)
- Palmetto Archives, Libraries, and Museums Council on Preservation (PALMCOP)
- Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL)*
- Reach Out and Read South Carolina
- South Carolina Center for Community Literacy
- South Carolina Library Evergreen Delivery System (SCLENDS)
- South Carolina Library Association
- South Carolina Association of School Librarians
- Special Libraries Association/South Carolina Chapter
- United for Libraries
- University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science
* Involved in digitization projects which bring together the significant books, newspapers, images, manuscripts and media that contribute recognition and understanding to the history and culture of state of South Carolina. Digitization provides the availability of a statewide virtual collection of key documents of South Carolina history for K-12 students, college students and faculty, researchers and other citizens.
