Love Data Week 2023 Events

To celebrate Love Data Week 2023 (Feb. 13-17), University Libraries is offering a week full of free online workshops. Register now to save your space!

First editions shine in University Libraries' "Celebrating 250 Years of African American Literature"

The exhibit includes important first editions of works across multiple genres, as well as early periodical appearances of a variety of authors.

Open Education Week 2023

Join us March 13 - 17 to observe Open Education Week 2023, an international celebration dedicated to sharing and learning about the latest achievements in open education.

USC Libraries adds another "Read and Publish" opportunity for USC researchers

University of South Carolina-affiliated researchers can now participate in no-cost open access publishing and have no-cost read access to some of the world's best physical sciences research, thanks to a transformative agreement USC Libraries has forged with IOP Publishing.

Prized map discovered at South Caroliniana Library

Cataloging librarian Craig Keeney didn't know he was about to discover a historic treasure when he opened a map drawer at the South Caroliniana Library this past spring.

Bradbury 101: Close Up with the Curator

Join us for a customized opportunity to learn more about Bradbury 101, the large exhibit of The Anne Farr Hardin Collection.

Champions at the Libraries

Being a librarian is about being a champion -- and not just for students and faculty -- but for causes close to their hearts.

Bradbury 101 exhibit back by popular demand

The Anne Farr Hardin Collection of Ray Bradbury Books, Fanzines, Pulps, Magazines, Correspondence, Photographs, Memorabilia and Ephemera is now open to the public at the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library.

Open for Climate Justice: Open Access Week 2022

Join us for our annual celebration of International Open Access Week and learn how collaboration can impact the climate movement internationally.

UofSC Downs Family KISS Collection Greatest Hits open three days this fall

Get an up-close look at some of our best finds in the Downs Family KISS Collection!

Filmmaker delves into shared family history at South Caroliniana Library

"The descendants of slaveholders and the descendants of enslaved people are, for the most part, the same family," says filmmaker Pamela Bailey.

Join us for the Fall Literary Festival 2022

Great writers, readers, fans and friends will gather in-person and online for three Wednesday nights this October for the University of South Carolina Fall Literary Festival.

First recipient of Joel Myerson Internship learns hands-on at Libraries

Over the course of the summer, Parkin was exposed to multiple aspects of librarianship at the Irvin Department, from conservation to digitization.

Four faculty win SCoer awards for 2022

Congratulations to the four recipients of this year's SCoer faculty awards.

Congratulations to this year's Undergraduate Research Award winners

Subtle change in resource access will reap time-saving rewards

An upgrade to the UofSC Libraries authentication process will take place during Summer 2022.

Learn and Earn: UofSC Libraries program shapes future of student workers

Student workers are a critical component of the libraries' operations and its ability to accomplish its mission to support researchers both on campus and around the world.

'Poetry and Prose in Politics' shines an artistic lens on SC activists and politicians

Song lyrics, plays and poems are part of University Libraries' South Carolina Political Collections

Correspondence with Otto Frank, father to Anne Frank, blossoms into decades-long connection

In 1957, 12-year-old Cara Wilson-Granat wrote a letter to Otto Frank, father of Holocaust victim and world-renowned diarist Anne Frank, and was surprised to receive a response from him.

Catesby in the Carolinas exhibit explores southeastern nature in 1700s

You're invited to step back 300 years into the natural history of the Carolinas at Catesby in the Carolinas, a double-venue exhibit co-hosted by the UofSC Libraries and McKissick Museum.

Open Education Week 2022 Events

Join us as we celebrate the global Open Education Movement and aspire to give everyone access to high-quality, online educational resources.

To honor a legend

University Libraries and Historic Columbia partner to tell Modjeska Simkins' story.

UofSC Libraries connects researchers with Wiley Read and Publish Deal services

UofSC Columbia affiliated researchers can now publish primary research and review articles as open access in any of Wiley's hybrid journals at no charge to the author.

Libraries Greener Fellowship offers minority student behind-the-scenes experience

Anntwanette Sulton knew she wanted to become a librarian by the time she was in the fifth grade.

UofSC virtual film project awarded two-year National Endowment for the Humanities grant

The $349,106 grant will fund development of software that will revolutionize online inspection of digitized archival films.