Friday, November 6, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Daniel Island Harvest Tour of Homes
Friends of the Daniel Island Library will sponsor its second annual Daniel Island Harvest Tour of Homes
1-4 p.m. Oct. 17 as a fundraiser to support the
Daniel Island Library. Maps come with the ticket package.
Advance tickets cost $15 and are available at Daniel Island Real Estate, A Floral Affair and Expressions on Daniel Island, and at Zinnia in Mount Pleasant. Tickets also be can obtained by mail at 121 Iron Bottom Lane, Daniel Island, SC 29492.
Tickets will be available the day of the tour for $25 at the Daniel Island Library, 2301 Daniel Island Drive. When tour-goers eat at a Daniel Island restaurant Oct. 17, the restaurant partners will make a donation to the library.
All proceeds of the Harvest Tour of Homes and Dine Around for the Library will be used to purchase material for the Daniel Island Library.
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/oct/08/daniel-island-house-tour-benefits-library/
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Teen Read Week! See "CORALINE"
CORALINEMoncks Corner Library Tuesday October 20th 5:00-7:00 pm
Goose Creek Library Friday October 29th 7:00-9:00 pm
For Middle & High School Students. Light refreshments will be served.
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. Based on the book by Neil Gaiman. Starring the voices of: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, John Hodgman, and Keith David. MPAA rating: PG.
BCLS ANIME CLUB presents
Howl's Moving Castle
“A young girl named Sophie is cursed by a witch and given an old woman's body. Ashamed of how she looks, she flees to the woods and happens upon Wizard Hauru's strange Moving Castle. While in the castle, Sophie makes a deal with a demon named Calcifer who can return her to her 18-year-old self.” Based on the book by Diana Wynne Jones. Voices by: Jean Simmons, Christian Bale, Lauren Bacall, Blythe Danner, Emily Mortimer, Josh Hutcherson, Billy Crystal, and Jena Malone. Walt Disney Pictures; Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.Rated PG; 119 minutes; 2005.©Copyright 2005 Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.Walt Disney Pictures; Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Rated PG; 119 minutes; 2005.
Fri., Oct. 9th, 7:00-9:15 p.m.
Goose Creek Library 325 Old Moncks Corner Road
For Middle and High School Students
Light Refreshments will be served.
Tues., Oct. 27th, 5:00-7:15 p.m.
Main Library Moncks Corner 1003 Hwy 52
For Middle and High School Students
Light Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, Oct. 29th, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Sangaree Library 595 Sangaree Parkway
For Middle and High School Students
Light Refreshments will be served.
Light Refreshments will be served.
Telling ghost stories is a favorite past time of Mai Taniyama and her friends--that is, until she meets 17 year-old Kazuya Shibuya, the man sent by Shibuya Psychic Research Center to investigate paranormal activity at a supposedly haunted school. When Mai gets caught in a dangerous situation, she is rescued by Kazuya's assistant. Saving her lands the assistant incapacitated, and Kazuya demands that Mai become his assistant, instead….
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Notice:
The Berkeley County Library System
to migrate to a new Library Automation & Database System. The Berkeley County Library System will open on Thursday, October 1, 2009.Bookdrops will remain open for your convenience during the period the Library is closed.The Web Catalog will not be available during the period the Library is closed.
will be closed
Monday, September 28th through Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
BCLS receives Google Community Grant
Berkeley County Library System Receives
Google Community Grant for Urgent Needs
More than $13,450 awarded for laptops and equipment
(BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.) – Sept. 18, 2009 – The Berkeley County Library System (BCLS) has received a $13,450 Google Community Grant from the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund at Tides Foundation to purchase laptops and charging cabinets to address increased demand for its services due to a weakened economy and a high unemployment rate.
“Our Google Community Grant is coming at a time when people in our service areas need it most,” said Donna Osborne, director of the Berkeley County Library System. “Over the last two years, we’ve noticed that more and more people are using the computers in the libraries to help search for jobs, write their resumes and to fill out online applications. There are also those who can’t afford to continue their Internet services at home. The grant will also help to bridge the digital divide by providing access to the Internet to those who don’t have it at home.”
Since 2007, computer use throughout BCLS has increased by more than 20 percent, mounting concerns that more computers are needed.
The new laptops will be distributed throughout the BCLS. Moncks Corner, Goose Creek, Daniel Island, Hanahan, Sangaree and St. Stephen will receive laptops for public in-house use. These communities also have the highest unemployment rate at more than 10 percent and if the unemployment rate increases, computers used for job searches will also increase.
The grant also helps BCLS mission to provide laptops and up-to-date resources for the more than 35,000 people in the community who use our public-access computers. The additional laptops will provide a more acceptable level of service as well as address the space problem at some of BCLS’ facilities, which lack the space for additional desktop computers.
The American Library Association’s (ALA) minimum standard for adequate computer resources at a public library is one public computer per 1,500 residents. The BCLS would need 115 or 109 computers to meet the minimum standard. Currently, the BCLS has 61 public-access computers with wireless access system-wide. With the Google Community Grant, BCLS will purchase 12 more laptops.
“Libraries are central meeting places that provide information, education and technological literacy for those in the libraries’ service areas,” said Jeff Stevenson, Google's Project Manager for South Carolina. “Through this grant and working with community partners, this is just one of many ways that we will continue to provide any assistance that we can in our data center communities.”
The Google Community Grant comes from the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund at Tides Foundation, which offers donor-advised funds and other grant-making vehicles, as well as professional philanthropic advice.
For more information about the Google Community Grants Program, go to www.google.com/datacenter/berkeleycounty/ and visit the "Community Outreach" page. Interested parties can submit an online application through this Web page on or before the first day of each quarter (January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1). All grant applications must be submitted online.
ABOUT THE BERKELEY COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
(The Berkeley County Library System is comprised of six libraries and an administration building (housed in the former Main library). The library employs twelve professional librarians and forty-one full-time staff in addition to six part-time staff member, student interns and volunteers. This year marks the launch of free Wi-Fi in our six library locations.)
Google Community Grant for Urgent Needs
More than $13,450 awarded for laptops and equipment
(BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.) – Sept. 18, 2009 – The Berkeley County Library System (BCLS) has received a $13,450 Google Community Grant from the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund at Tides Foundation to purchase laptops and charging cabinets to address increased demand for its services due to a weakened economy and a high unemployment rate.
“Our Google Community Grant is coming at a time when people in our service areas need it most,” said Donna Osborne, director of the Berkeley County Library System. “Over the last two years, we’ve noticed that more and more people are using the computers in the libraries to help search for jobs, write their resumes and to fill out online applications. There are also those who can’t afford to continue their Internet services at home. The grant will also help to bridge the digital divide by providing access to the Internet to those who don’t have it at home.”
Since 2007, computer use throughout BCLS has increased by more than 20 percent, mounting concerns that more computers are needed.
The new laptops will be distributed throughout the BCLS. Moncks Corner, Goose Creek, Daniel Island, Hanahan, Sangaree and St. Stephen will receive laptops for public in-house use. These communities also have the highest unemployment rate at more than 10 percent and if the unemployment rate increases, computers used for job searches will also increase.
The grant also helps BCLS mission to provide laptops and up-to-date resources for the more than 35,000 people in the community who use our public-access computers. The additional laptops will provide a more acceptable level of service as well as address the space problem at some of BCLS’ facilities, which lack the space for additional desktop computers.
The American Library Association’s (ALA) minimum standard for adequate computer resources at a public library is one public computer per 1,500 residents. The BCLS would need 115 or 109 computers to meet the minimum standard. Currently, the BCLS has 61 public-access computers with wireless access system-wide. With the Google Community Grant, BCLS will purchase 12 more laptops.
“Libraries are central meeting places that provide information, education and technological literacy for those in the libraries’ service areas,” said Jeff Stevenson, Google's Project Manager for South Carolina. “Through this grant and working with community partners, this is just one of many ways that we will continue to provide any assistance that we can in our data center communities.”
The Google Community Grant comes from the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund at Tides Foundation, which offers donor-advised funds and other grant-making vehicles, as well as professional philanthropic advice.
For more information about the Google Community Grants Program, go to www.google.com/datacenter/berkeleycounty/ and visit the "Community Outreach" page. Interested parties can submit an online application through this Web page on or before the first day of each quarter (January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1). All grant applications must be submitted online.
ABOUT THE BERKELEY COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
(The Berkeley County Library System is comprised of six libraries and an administration building (housed in the former Main library). The library employs twelve professional librarians and forty-one full-time staff in addition to six part-time staff member, student interns and volunteers. This year marks the launch of free Wi-Fi in our six library locations.)
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