Labor historian Michael Thompson will address a gathering of scholars, students, and Lowcountry workers at 6 p.m. on April 19, 2012, when he delivers “Working on the Dock of the Bay: Charleston’s Waterfront, 1783-1861” at the ILA Local 1422 Union Hall, 1142 Morrison Drive. Thompson, a history professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, […]
Septima Clark Enhanced E-Book Available Now!
Check out the Enhanced e-book for Katherine Mellen Charron's "Freedom's Teacher: The Life Of Septima Clark"! The Lowcountry Digital Library was lucky enough to be able to contribute some digital images and oral history clips to the project. Enjoy! The enhanced electronic version of the book draws from archives, libraries, and the author's personal […]
SCDL Keeps On Growing and Gaining in Popularity!
The South Carolina Digital Library (SCDL) is now represented in both the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Digital Collections and Content web portal and in Opening History: US Resources from Libraries, Museums and Archives. So far South Carolina, through SCDL, has added more items than any other state to this Illinois database of […]
New Collection: The Lucille Hasell Culp Collection – A Celebration of Beaufort, South Carolina
"The Lucille Hasell Culp Collection – A Celebration of Beaufort, South Carolina” contains a selection of 300 images, primarily photographic negatives, from the much larger Lucille Hasell Culp Collection. Here one finds selected images of enduring historical value to Beaufort, such as those relating to community and military events, built structures that are no longer […]
Lecture: Benjamin Franklin: Pioneer Medical Electrotherapist
The Waring Library Society cordially invites you to attend the Warren A. Sawyer Lecture “Benjamin Franklin: Pioneer Medical Electrotherapist” by Dr. Stanley Finger Professor Emeritus, Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 5:30 pm Basic Sciences Auditorium at MUSC A reception will follow at the Wickliffe House This lecture is free and […]
The Art of History: A Two-Day Celebration at the College of Charleston in Honor of Peter H. Wood
On October 20–21, the College of Charleston’s Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program, Addlestone Library, and Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture will present “The Art of History,” a two-day event honoring Peter Wood. Activities will begin on Thursday evening at 6:00 in Addlestone Library, room 227, with a screening of Carvalho’s […]
New Beginnings
This is the beginning of the Lowcountry Digital Library rebuild – a new digital library for the Lowcountry. This library will be built on a Fedora repository with BlackLight for browse/search/display and Drupal 7 for informational pages, collection homepages, institutional information and search portals, educational content and lesson plans. We've got limited funds and even […]
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
October 13th at 6pm in the College of Charleston Addlestone Library, Room 227, author Scott Poole will discuss his new book Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and Haunting.
International conference on preservation of digital information started in Moscow
The most topical issues of preservation of digital information will be discussed in Moscow in the international conference, Preservation of Digital Information in the Information Society: Problems and Prospects, which started today. The Conference, organized in the framework of Russian chairmanship in the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO Information for All Programme, will continue up […]
We Are American Libraries Direct Digital Library of the Week!
A big thank you to Karon Emmons of the Historic Charleston Foundation for suggesting us. Check it out here: AL Direct June 15, 2011