Check out the newest branch of the Richland County Public Library. The new branch was funded with an LSTA grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services www.imls.gov administered by the SC State Library www.statelibrary.sc.gov.
December 11, 2007
December 07, 2007
South Carolina Obituary Resources Page
Check out the latest YouTube video about the SC Obituary Resources web page available from the SC State Library's web site. www.statelibrary.sc.gov.
December 06, 2007
Dr. Robert Ackerman at the SC Center for the Book
Today Dr. Ackerman discussed the subject of his recent book, Wade Hampton III, at the Speaker @ the Center book discussion. For more information visit www.sccenterforthebook.org.
December 05, 2007
Book scanning robot
Chris Zammarelli took this quick vid of the amazing scanning robot at the Staatsbibliothek in Munich. Fascinating!!!
RCPL the Link - opening
RCPL Executive Director David Warren, South Carolina Representative Nathan Ballentine, Friends of RCPL Representative Susan Mazur, Richland County Councilman Bill Mallinowski and RCPL Board of Trustees Chairman Rox Pollard officially opened The Link, Ballentine on December 4.
RCPL Adds Innovative New Location to Rapidly Growing Community
The Richland County Public Library in Columbia, S.C. opened its 11th location—The Link, Ballentine—to a crowd of more than 150 children, teens and adults on December 4.
The highly anticipated facility features popular reading and children’s collections as well as a number of technologically advanced services, including wireless Internet access and a video reference system that allows users to see and speak with a reference librarian at the Main Library’s General Reference and Business, Science and Technology Reference desks.
With a statewide property tax referendum limiting local funds for libraries, this new facility was made possible because the Friends of RCPL matched a $65,000 Library Services and Technology Act Grant. This support allowed RCPL to increase services in the rapidly growing Ballentine community in Northwest Richland County, an area that was served only by a Bookmobile.
“The video conferencing technology, which has been adapted for commercial efforts but not widely used to date in public libraries, allowed us to utilize current staff at the Main Library to provide personalized reference services,” said RCPL’s Executive Director David Warren. “Maximizing current resources, including staff and the numerous materials in several formats now available through our Web site, allows us to enhance services to a more remote area of our community.”
RCPL also worked with a local architecture firm to carry out its Build Green philosophy by refurbishing and reusing several aspects of the rented, storefront facility including furniture, shelving and concrete floors.
In December of 2006, naturalist and avid library supporter Rudy Mancke fulfilled a childhood dream of driving a bookmobile when he guided RCPL’s Bookmobile along its final journey to be parked at the future library location, where it nearly tripled its circulation.
For more information on The Link, please call 803-929-3440 or visit www.myRCPL.com.
RCPL Adds Innovative New Location to Rapidly Growing Community
The Richland County Public Library in Columbia, S.C. opened its 11th location—The Link, Ballentine—to a crowd of more than 150 children, teens and adults on December 4.
The highly anticipated facility features popular reading and children’s collections as well as a number of technologically advanced services, including wireless Internet access and a video reference system that allows users to see and speak with a reference librarian at the Main Library’s General Reference and Business, Science and Technology Reference desks.
With a statewide property tax referendum limiting local funds for libraries, this new facility was made possible because the Friends of RCPL matched a $65,000 Library Services and Technology Act Grant. This support allowed RCPL to increase services in the rapidly growing Ballentine community in Northwest Richland County, an area that was served only by a Bookmobile.
“The video conferencing technology, which has been adapted for commercial efforts but not widely used to date in public libraries, allowed us to utilize current staff at the Main Library to provide personalized reference services,” said RCPL’s Executive Director David Warren. “Maximizing current resources, including staff and the numerous materials in several formats now available through our Web site, allows us to enhance services to a more remote area of our community.”
RCPL also worked with a local architecture firm to carry out its Build Green philosophy by refurbishing and reusing several aspects of the rented, storefront facility including furniture, shelving and concrete floors.
In December of 2006, naturalist and avid library supporter Rudy Mancke fulfilled a childhood dream of driving a bookmobile when he guided RCPL’s Bookmobile along its final journey to be parked at the future library location, where it nearly tripled its circulation.
For more information on The Link, please call 803-929-3440 or visit www.myRCPL.com.
December 03, 2007
January is National Mentoring Month
Libraries, here is an idea for promoting National Mentoring Month!MENTOR :: National Mentoring MonthContact organizations in your area that have mentoring programs or would like to start a mentoring program to an open house in January in honor of National Mentoring Month. Get your Friends Group to help sponsor the event with refreshments. Find a local speaker to come and talk about the importance of mentoring. Set up a small book/video display about mentoring. Talk about how the library can provide meeting space for mentoring programs. Show the PSA on mentoring!
National Mentoring Month (NMM) highlights mentoring and the positive impact it can have on young lives. Spearheaded by the Harvard Mentoring Project, MENTOR, and the Corporation for National and Community Service, the firstever NMM was held January 2002. This month-long outreach campaign focuses national attention on the need for mentors, as well as how each of us—individuals, businesses, government agencies, schools, faith communities and nonprofits—can work together to increase the number of mentors and assure brighter futures for our young people.
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Techopolis: Library Pod - The Cave is Novel Design for Bookies
Techopolis: Library Pod - The Cave is Novel Design for Bookies
I love this kind of design feature when it comes to library furniture. What a neat area to read in!
Avid readers will love retreating into this little library pod to be one with their books. "The Cave" is a relaxing and comfortable space intended for reading -- the system even includes bookshelves!
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December 02, 2007
Library as Place
This is a great library school student made video. They make a lot of important observations about library services. Check it out!
November 16, 2007
South Carolina SchoolRooms
Promotional Video about SchoolRooms. You can subscribe to the SC State Library YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/scstatelibrary.
November 14, 2007
Robert Ackerman to Speak at SC Center for the Book
Bring your lunch and enjoy an interesting hour with author and history professor, Robert K. Ackerman as he discusses his book, Wade Hampton III. Providing the most balanced and comprehensive portrayal of Wade Hampton III to date, Robert K. Ackerman's biography explores the remarkable abilities and tragic failings of the planter-statesman who would come to personify the Civil War and Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Robert K. Ackerman is a retired professor of history who has served as dean of Erskine College and Drew University and as president of Wesleyan College in Macon, GA. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of South Carolina, he is the author of several works on South Carolina history, including South Carolina Colonial Land Policies. Ackerman lives in Lexington, South Carolina.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Noon—1 p.m.
SC State Library Administration Building
Room 309, 1430 Senate Street
Columbia, SC 29201
This free lunchtime program is presented by the South Carolina Center for the Book, the South Carolina affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. The SC Center for the Book is a cooperative project of the SC State Library, the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and The Humanities Council SC.
Robert K. Ackerman is a retired professor of history who has served as dean of Erskine College and Drew University and as president of Wesleyan College in Macon, GA. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of South Carolina, he is the author of several works on South Carolina history, including South Carolina Colonial Land Policies. Ackerman lives in Lexington, South Carolina.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Noon—1 p.m.
SC State Library Administration Building
Room 309, 1430 Senate Street
Columbia, SC 29201
This free lunchtime program is presented by the South Carolina Center for the Book, the South Carolina affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. The SC Center for the Book is a cooperative project of the SC State Library, the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and The Humanities Council SC.
November 07, 2007
Sheila Morris Writes and Lives in Columbia South Carolina
Sheila Morris Writes and Lives in Columbia South CarolinaWay to go Sheila! Can't wait to go to the book signing tonight!
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Gas Station as Information Kiosk?
Hmmm, think makes me begin to think about how this could be expanded to be a more full information kiosk at the gas pump and also how this will begin to impact on library services...
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November 05, 2007
Carvers Bay (SC) Branch Library: Gaming the Way to Literacy
I Love Libraries -Innovation happens in the most surprising places. If asked which US library is pushing the envelope on introducing interactive computer gaming in public libraries, how many would look to the most rural, poor, and isolated corner of a county in South Carolina? And if informed that this corner of the library world has a 30% illiteracy rate, a 15% unemployment rate, a poverty level exceeding 30% with up to 90% of school kids eligible for free or reduced-rate lunches, and a meager 2% rate for library card registration, what odds would you give that it can even keep its doors open?
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Ben Franklin Exhibit at Georgetown County Library
This is a wonderful promotional video for the exhibit! Congrats to Georgetown County Library!
Williamsburg County Library
Yesterday I attended two branch library dedications for new Children's wings in Hemingway and Kingstree South Carolina. I made two presentations and here were my remarks to the groups:
Introduce Jane Connor, youth services consultant.
David Goble, state librarian, sends his regrets
Libraries are community treasure chests,
They are loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card.
Libraries are important.
Author Ray Bradbury once said that his library was a great place to write a novel about book burning,
He wrote his classic novel, Farenheit 451 in his library’s basement.
Libraries are important.
Teenagers can discover the pleasures of reading and gain the power of knowledge by going to libraries. With that power, they will be invincible.
also
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be there to help them find the answer--our librarians. (A librarian's) job is an important one. Our nation runs on the fuel of information and imagination that libraries provide. And they are in charge of collecting and sharing this information in a helpful way. Librarians inform the public, and by doing so, they strengthen our great democracy. First Lady Laura Bush
And in the words of Andrew Carnegie:
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Libraries ARE important.
Thank you.
Introduce Jane Connor, youth services consultant.
David Goble, state librarian, sends his regrets
Libraries are community treasure chests,
They are loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card.
Libraries are important.
Author Ray Bradbury once said that his library was a great place to write a novel about book burning,
He wrote his classic novel, Farenheit 451 in his library’s basement.
Libraries are important.
Teenagers can discover the pleasures of reading and gain the power of knowledge by going to libraries. With that power, they will be invincible.
also
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be there to help them find the answer--our librarians. (A librarian's) job is an important one. Our nation runs on the fuel of information and imagination that libraries provide. And they are in charge of collecting and sharing this information in a helpful way. Librarians inform the public, and by doing so, they strengthen our great democracy. First Lady Laura Bush
And in the words of Andrew Carnegie:
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Libraries ARE important.
Thank you.
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