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The S.C. Academy of Authors has expanded its annual award competitions to include a separate category for student writers of fiction and poetry and an increase in prize money.  

The South Carolina State Library is proud to announce a partnership with the People Connect Institute (PCI) to offer access to hundreds of archived webinars that address a wide variety of challenges and opportun

Join us for Speaker @ the Center on Thursday, November 3, 2016. We'll hear from John M. Sherrer, III, who will discuss his book, Remembering Columbia published by Arcadia. Columbia, South Carolina, is very much a tale of two cities. Founded as a political compromise, forged by an economy shackled by slavery, and physically vanquished by fire, the Palmetto States second capital became a proving ground for a new society less than a century after its establishment.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have launched a new website that provides visual images and information about medications in pill form.  Pillbox will work with other drug information resources from NIH and FDA including, DailyMed, and the Drug Information Portal.  A short search query will reveal several pill images, which will le