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Young Readers Who Write to Favorite Authors Can Win up to $100

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Young readers in grades 4-12 are invited to write a personal letter to an author for the Letters about Literature (LAL) contest, a national reading and writing promotion program. The letter can be to any author (living or dead) from any genre (fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic) explaining how that author's work changed the student's life or view of the world. Prizes will be awarded on both the state and national levels. The South Carolina Center for the Book's panel of judges will select the top letter writers in the state, to be honored in an awards ceremony at a later date.

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State Library Holiday Closing

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Talking Book Services and the South Carolina State Library will be closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 24 and Friday, November 25. We will reopen on Monday, November 28.

We wish you all a happy and safe holiday!

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Remembering Columbia Author Talk and Signing

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Remembering Columbia book cover

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.

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