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SC Code § 60-1-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-60. Duties of State Library in executing library policy.

 The South Carolina State Library is charged with the development and extension of library services throughout the State. The State Library is responsible for executing the library policy for the State and shall:  (a) provide leadership and guidance for the planning and coordinated development of adequate library service for the people of the State;  (b) maintain appropriate collections of library materials in any format considered necessary to supplement the collections of other libraries in the State and to meet the research and informational needs of the General Assembly, state officers and agencies, and state government employees;  (c) increase the proficiency of library personnel through provision of in-service and continuing education programs for library personnel employed in the State;  (d) provide for the citizens of the State specialized library services and materials not generally appropriate, economical, or available in other libraries of the State;  (e) organize a system of depository libraries for state publications to ensure that the publications are readily accessible to the citizens of the State;  (f) serve as a depository for federal publications and coordinate a state plan for federal documents depository libraries;  (g) collect, compile, and publish statistics and information concerning the operation of libraries in the State and maintain a clearinghouse of information, data, and materials in the field of library and information science;  (h) coordinate library services of the State with other educational agencies and services to increase effectiveness and reduce duplication;  (i) carry out other activities authorized by state or federal law for the development of library and information services.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 42-205; 1952 Code Section 42-205; 1942 Code Section 5500; 1932 Code Section 5472; 1929 (36) 261; 1935 (39) 220; 1967 (55) 1003; 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-70. State Library to provide research services to General Assembly and others.

 The South Carolina State Library shall provide library and library research services to the General Assembly, state officers and agencies, and state government employees.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-80. State Library to provide assistance to public libraries and county governments.

 The South Carolina State Library shall provide advice and assistance to public libraries, library boards, and county governments in matters concerning the establishment, support, operation, improvement, and coordination of library services. The State Library may:  (a) provide a staff of consultants qualified to give advisory and technical assistance to library directors and library boards;  (b) administer state aid and other grants-in-aid to supplement and improve public library services and promulgate regulations as may be necessary to insure effective and efficient use of grants;  (c) administer a certification program for public libraries and librarians, establishing regulations and procedures for the implementation of the program;  (d) carry out statewide programs and services which cannot be effectively or economically provided by local libraries;  (e) plan and coordinate the provision of library services to groups with special needs, including but not limited to the elderly, the physically handicapped, the unemployed, the poor, the functionally illiterate, and those persons who have cultural, social, or educational disadvantages that prevent them from using library services designed for persons without the disadvantages.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-90. Administration of state and federal grants to public libraries; eligibility for grants.

 Any public library which accepts state and federal grants administered by the South Carolina State Library may not use the grants to replace local funding for the library. In order to qualify for grants, libraries shall meet maintenance of effort requirements set by the State Library Board in accord with state and federal regulations.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-100. Services of libraries open to public; fees for certain services; penalties.

 The services and resources of the South Carolina State Library and any public library receiving state and federal funds administered by the State Library are free for use by all persons living within South Carolina or the county or region served, except each public library board may fix and each public library may collect reasonable fees and service charges as the board considers necessary to offset the costs of special library services. The State Library may charge fees for the cost of on-line reference services and other nontraditional library services and retain the fees to offset the cost of the services. A board may assess fines, penalties, damages, or replacement costs for the loss of, damage to, or failure to return any library property or material. The use of a library is subject to regulations adopted by the library's board and the board may extend use of the library to nonresidents upon terms and conditions as it may prescribe.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-110. State Library to assist libraries of state institutions.

 The South Carolina State Library shall render encouragement, advice, and assistance for the establishment, operation, and coordination of libraries of state institutions. The State Library may:  (a) provide a consultant qualified to give advisory and technical assistance to institutional librarians and administrators;  (b) administer grants-in-aid from federal or other sources to supplement library services in state institutions; and  (c) establish minimum standards for library service which take into account the type of institution, the number of people served by the institution, the availability of library services to the institutional population, the qualification of personnel for staffing of a library, and the institution's commitment to annual budgetary support for library services.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-120. Library services to be rendered to blind and physically handicapped readers.

 The South Carolina State Library shall provide library service to the blind and physically handicapped readers in cooperation with the United States Library of Congress. The State Library shall provide books and other reading matter in recorded form, in braille, in large type, or any other medium of reading used by the blind and physically handicapped. To this end, the State Library is authorized to contract with the appropriate federal agency or any library for the blind and physically handicapped. Services must be rendered in accordance with applicable federal regulations and consistent with the current standards and guidelines for service for the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-130. State Library to promote cooperation among governmental bodies and libraries for the sharing of resources.

 The South Carolina State Library shall promote cooperation among governmental bodies, including but not limited to, departments, agencies, institutions, boards, committees, and commissions of the State and political subdivisions of the State, including school districts, and among libraries of all types and shall encourage the sharing of resources among libraries at all service levels. None of the provisions of this chapter may be construed to interfere with the authority of the governing boards of institutions of higher learning or the governing boards of public, school, or special libraries.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-140. State Library to establish statewide library network.

 The South Carolina State Library shall plan, develop, and operate a statewide library network to facilitate the sharing of resources and information among South Carolina libraries and to make resources and information more easily accessible to library users anywhere in the State. To this end, the State Library may:  (a) recommend statewide priorities for interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing;  (b) develop and publish a state plan for library network activities;  (c) promulgate policies, regulations, and guidelines consistent with the provisions of this chapter;  (d) establish and operate a network computer system and telecommunication systems which will expedite interlibrary loan, reference, and referral;  (e) acquire or create computer programs and data bases and make them available to libraries of the network;  (f) provide grants for networking activities and establish standards under which libraries may be eligible for the grants;  (g) encourage public awareness of the need for interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing;  (h) provide for state participation in and compatibility with regional, national, or international library networks and systems which will increase the quality of library service to the people of this State;  (i) encourage and assist the efforts of libraries and local governments to develop mutual and cooperative solutions to library service problems;  (j) establish a network advisory body made up of representatives of the several network constituencies to advise and assist the State Library in network planning and development.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-150. Authority of public libraries to participate in statewide library network; authority of director to allow participation.

 The governing body of any library supported by state, county, or municipal governments or by public school districts is authorized to enter into agreements with the South Carolina State Library for the library's participation in the statewide library network and to enter into cooperative agreements with other libraries for collection development, resource sharing, and library services.  The director of the State Library, subject to the approval of the State Library Board, has the power to enter into agreements with any library located in the State, including private and federal libraries, to allow participation in the state resource sharing network and for coordination of the state library program with any library.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-160. State Library to receive statistical reports from libraries.

 Every public, college, university, technical college, and state institutional library shall make an annual statistical report to the South Carolina State Library in a form as may be prescribed by the State Library. Reports must be made in a timely manner so that statistics may be published in the State Library's annual report. The State Library may require other reports as may be necessary from libraries receiving state and federal grants or participating in the statewide library network.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-1-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 1 - South Carolina State Library|Section 60-1-170. Authority of director to cooperate with United States Department of Education and other agencies in the administration of funds.

 The director of the South Carolina State Library is authorized to do all things necessary and proper to fully cooperate with the United States Department of Education or any other federal agency in the administering of any funds appropriated for the payment of salaries, books, periodicals, library supplies, or equipment, for the construction of library buildings, for the maintenance of the expense of public library services, for interlibrary cooperation, for library services to state institutions, and for library services to the blind and physically handicapped.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 178, Section 2.
SC Code § 60-2-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 2 - State Documents Depository|Section 60-2-10. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:  (1) "Complete depository" means a place, usually a library, that requests and receives at least one copy of all state publications;  (2) "Depository system" means a system established by the State Library in which copies of all state publications are deposited in one central depository or library for distribution to other designated depositories or libraries;  (3) "Electronic" means publication only in a computerized format;  (4) "Print" means publication in a format other than an electronic or computerized format;  (5) "Selective depository" means a place, usually a library, that requests and receives one copy of selected state publications;  (6) "State publication" means any document, compilation, register, book, pamphlet, report, map, leaflet, order, regulation, directory, periodical, magazine, or other similar written material excluding interoffice and intraoffice communications issued in any format by the State, any state agency or department, or any state-supported college or university intended for public distribution, or distribution to the General Assembly, agencies, political subdivisions, or nonprofit organizations and to the general public. State publication includes publications that may or may not be financed by state funds and are released by private bodies, such as research and consultant firms under contract with or supervision of a state agency.  HISTORY: 1982 Act No. 348, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 24, Section 1.
SC Code § 60-2-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 2 - State Documents Depository|Section 60-2-20. State Library as official state depository of all state publications.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the South Carolina State Library is the official state depository of all state publications, with the responsibility for organizing and providing bibliographic control over state publications and distributing state publications to all libraries participating in a depository system.  HISTORY: 1982 Act No. 348, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 24, Section 1.
SC Code § 60-2-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 2 - State Documents Depository|Section 60-2-30. State agencies, departments, and state-supported institutions to provide copies of state publications; exceptions.

 All state agencies, departments, and state-supported colleges and universities must provide at least fifteen copies of every state publication that the agency, department, college, or university prints or causes to be printed to the State Library within fifteen days after the printing. A publication produced only in electronic format must be electronically provided to the State Library within fifteen days of the publication's posting or distribution. The State Library Director may waive the deposition of any agency publication if:  (1) the publication is of ephemeral value;  (2) less than ten copies are to be printed and no electronic version is available; or  (3) the issuing agency requests a waiver.  HISTORY: 1982 Act No. 348, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 24, Section 1.
SC Code § 60-3-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 3 - Library Of Supreme Court|Section 60-3-10. Care and custody of library; employment of departmental clerk to act as librarian.

 The library of the Supreme Court shall be in the custody and care of the clerk of the court, who shall annually, with the consent and approval of the court, employ some suitable person, as a departmental clerk, to care for and attend in the library and perform such duties with reference thereto as may be prescribed by the court. The librarian so employed may be discharged by order of the court at any time and shall receive such compensation as may be provided by law.  Any woman who has attained the age of twenty-one years and has been a resident of this State for two years may be employed as such librarian.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 42-51; 1952 Code Section 42-51; 1942 Code Section 16; 1932 Code Section 16; Civ. P. '22 Section 16; Civ. C. '12 Section 3820; Civ. C. '02 Section 2724; G. S. 2094; R. S. 2226; 1896 (22) 3; 1918 (30) 788.
SC Code § 60-3-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 3 - Library Of Supreme Court|Section 60-3-20. Exchange of old or duplicate books.

 The justices of the Supreme Court may, in their discretion, exchange old or duplicate editions of books in such library for other books, to be selected by the justices.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 42-52; 1952 Code Section 42-52; 1942 Code Section 3202; 1932 Code Section 3202; Civ. C. '22 Section 899; Civ. C. '12 Section 819; 1909 (26) 283.
SC Code § 60-4-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 4 - Confidential Library Records|Section 60-4-10. Records identifying library patrons as confidential information; disclosure.

 Records related to registration and circulation of library materials which contain names or other personally identifying details regarding the users of public, private, school, college, technical college, university, and state institutional libraries and library systems, supported in whole or in part by public funds or expending public funds, are confidential information.  Records which by themselves or when examined with other public records would reveal the identity of the library patron checking out or requesting an item from the library or using other library services are confidential information.  The confidential records do not include nonidentifying administrative and statistical reports of registration and circulation.  The confidential records may not be disclosed except to persons acting within the scope of their duties in the administration of the library or library system or persons authorized by the library patron to inspect his records, or in accordance with proper judicial order upon a finding that the disclosure of the records is necessary to protect public safety, to prosecute a crime, or upon showing of good cause before the presiding Judge in a civil matter.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 108, Section 1.
SC Code § 60-4-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 4 - Confidential Library Records|Section 60-4-20. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter, the term "registration records" includes any information which a library requires a patron to provide in order to become eligible to borrow books and other materials, and the term "circulation records" includes all information which identifies the patrons borrowing particular books and other materials.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 108, Section 1.
SC Code § 60-4-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 4 - Confidential Library Records|Section 60-4-30. Penalties.

 Any person violating the provisions of Section 60-4-10 must upon conviction be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days for the first offense, must be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than sixty days for the second offense, and must be fined not more than two thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than ninety days for the third or subsequent offense.  HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 108, Section 1.
SC Code § 60-9-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 9 - State And County Aid For School Libraries|Section 60-9-10. Procedures for obtaining state and county aid; monies raised by public and private subscriptions.

 Whenever the friends and patrons of a public school raise, from public subscription or otherwise, a sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars and deposit it with the county treasurer to the credit of their school district, the county board of education, through the county superintendent of education, shall credit such district with an equal amount, to be drawn from the county board fund or, if the county board fund has been exhausted, to be drawn from the general school fund of the county. The county superintendent shall then make application to the State Superintendent of Education for an amount equal to the sum raised, by private subscription or otherwise, and deposit it with the county treasurer. All the money resulting from private subscription or otherwise, from county funds, or from State funds shall be held in the county treasury to the credit of the school district and shall be paid out upon the warrant of the board of school district trustees, duly approved and countersigned by the county superintendent of education.  Nothing herein shall prevent other funds greater than those mentioned herein being raised by private subscription and applied by the county superintendent of education to the purposes herein set forth.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 42-251; 1952 Code Section 42-251; 1942 Code Section 5498; 1932 Code Section 5423; Civ. C. '22 Section 2686; Civ. C. '12 Section 1796; 1904 (24) 391; 1905 (24) 877; 1908 (25) 1024; 1913 (28) 190; 1914 (28) 752; 1919 (31) 150.
SC Code § 60-9-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts|Chapter 9 - State And County Aid For School Libraries|Section 60-9-20. Disbursement of funds; list of books purchased.

 The funds provided under Section 60-9-10 shall be expended only for the establishment of a library, for the enlargement of a library or for the purchase of supplementary readers to be kept in the school library. Any free public school may participate in this fund but only once during a fiscal year. The trustees or teachers of any school receiving the benefits of this section and Section 60-9-10 shall file, both with the county superintendent of education and with the State Superintendent of Education, a correct and legible list of the books purchased.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 42-252; 1952 Code Section 42-252; 1942 Code Section 5499; 1932 Code Section 5424; Civ. C. '22 Section 2687; Civ. C. '12 Section 1797; 1904 (24) 391; 1905 (24) 877; 1919 (31) 150.