Regional Meetings

Is your library or Friends group interested in hosting a Friends of South Carolina Libraries Regional Meeting? 
Contact [email protected] to learn more!

September 2024 Regional Meeting

Thank you to the Lexington County Library and the Friends of the Lexington Main Library for hosting the Fall 2024 FOSCL Regional Meeting on September 18th at the Lexington Main Library.  Attendees were welcomed by Kelly Poole, Lexington County Library Director, and heard presentations from Ben Bullock, COO of Together SC, and T.J. Wallace, Assistant Director of SC Humanities. 

To view the presentations, visit FOSCL’s YouTube page.  (Here is the link, please embed the link in the words FOSCL’s YouTube page.)  https://www.youtube.com/@friendsofsclibraries

January 2024 Regional Meeting

Thank you to the Spartanburg County Library for hosting the January 2024 Regional Meeting!  Attendees heard from Todd Stephens, Spartanburg County Library Director about the library’s history and upcoming expansion projects.  Derrick Lawson, Spartanburg County Library Director of Advancement, spoke about Pages on Pine, the free-standing bookstore managed in partnership with the Friends of the Spartanburg County Library. 

“Friends groups support libraries by filling funding gaps, which provides staff with capacity and flexibility to serve the local community.” Todd Stephens, Director of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries