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What You Read 2023: CCPL's Top Books of the Year

Article Date
December 7, 2023

Drum roll, please! Charleston County Public Library is excited to share another year of your top borrowed books! So far in 2023, our patrons have circulated over 2.9 million items, both digital and print, and we still have one month to go. From the...

Watson's Garden: The Horticultural Roots of Courier Square

Article Date
December 1, 2023

Charleston’s venerable newspaper, the Post and Courier, is transforming its headquarters on upper King Street into an upscale mixed-use development called Courier Square. The present twentieth-century structures will soon disappear, exposing a...

Main Library Closure Notice

Article Date
November 27, 2023

Due to the City of Charleston Holiday Parade, Main Library will be closed on Sunday, December 3. Book drops will remain open during this time. 

Donate to CCPL Food Programs for GivingTuesday

Article Date
November 17, 2023

Can you lend a hand in funding for Charleston County Public Library's food programs? Your monetary donation, no matter the amount, makes a big impact in providing healthy food to people in need within our community. 

For Giving Tuesday on November...

Free Indians In Amity with the State: A Legal Legacy

Article Date
November 17, 2023

The phrase “free Indians in amity with the state” arose during the early years of the Carolina colony to describe peaceful Indigenous people who possessed certain inalienable civil rights. Legal measures enacted during the early eighteenth century...

The Native American Land Cessions of 1684

Article Date
November 9, 2023

In the late winter of 1684, the leaders of eight Native American tribes in the Lowcountry of South Carolina surrendered their traditional homelands to English colonists. A series of documents ostensibly signed on a single day that February ceded...

Get Free Flu Vaccines at select branches for adults 19+

Article Date
November 8, 2023

The Charleston County Public Library is offering free flu vaccines for adults who are 19 and older who are uninsured or underinsured. This is in partnership with Carmichael Medical Training, the Autism Society of South Carolina and the Shifa Clinic...

Join us for Medicaid Informational Sessions at select branches

Article Date
November 8, 2023

Do you have questions about the Medicaid Annual Review process? Have you recently been disenrolled from Medicaid and need healthcare resources? Attend this informational presentation from the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to...