Friends of the Anderson County Library

• Working with library staff and volunteers, the Friends maintain the Library Cafe and Friends Store, both located in the lobby of the Main Library. The Cafe features Electric City Coffee Roasters’s coffee, along with a variety of other hot and cold beverages and a wide selection of packaged pastries, cookies, and crackers.
• The Store is the place to go for used and lightly used books. You may also purchase pads, pens, pencils, and other supplies you may need when doing research at the library.
• The Friends also sponsor a number of special activities throughout the year at the library. To find out more about becoming a Friend of the Library, click here, or call the Community Services coordinator for a brochure.

  Distance Education

• www.DESC.info (Distance Education South Carolina) is a web resource providing access to the distance education resources of South Carolina. The site lists distance-delivered academic credit, continuing education, and non-credit courses, classes and programs offered by South Carolina's schools, colleges, universities, state agencies and more. The site also provides links to distance education resources and materials.
• In cooperation with the University of South Carolina, the Main Library serves as a distance learning site for telecommunications courses by satellite. These courses are offered on both graduate and undergraduate levels and are semester-based, offered in the fall, spring, and summer sessions.
• The satellite courses are taught at USC in a studio classroom and transmitted to the library, where there are four individual viewing rooms and four group viewing rooms. Interaction between sites is by telephone talkback.
• For a complete listing of course selections, click here or go to the USC student website, where you’ll also find information on course requirements and tuition:  http://www.sc.edu/deis/ss/index.html.
• You must reserve a viewing room at the library by contacting the Community Services coordinator at least two days in advance of the class air date. We cannot guarantee a viewing room on short notice.

 Book Donations

• The Friends always welcome used and lightly used books.  They can be dropped off at the front desk of the Main library or any branch library.
• If you wish to donate a new book or books for the Main library or a branch library in memory or honor of an individual, please contact the Community Services coordinator.  Bookplates recognizing this type of donation are placed in each volume.

Meeting Rooms

• The Main library has a variety of rooms available for non-profit and community groups to use, student groups, and tutors.  Meetings may be scheduled up to three months in advance of the meeting date or at least two days in advance of the meeting date by contacting the Community Services coordinator.  To view the current schedule or for more information about the library’s meeting room policies, click here.  

Marybeth Evans,
Community Services Coordinator
Phone: (864) 260-4500
Fax: (864) 260-4510
email:  communityservices@andersonlibrary.org