New Exhibit

We have put up a new exhibit in the Local History Room called: Hail To The Chief: Columbia's presidential Visits 1791-1938.

The exhibit takes a look at visits from Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, McKinley, Taft, Wilson and FDR to Columbia. Images were scanned from The State and from our Bicentennial Photograph Collection.

Did you know that the difference between a display and an exhibit is that an exhibit teaches you something? I just learned that at one of our South Carolina Archival Association conferences. The next conference is October 8th in case you want to mark your calendars.

South Carolina Genealogical Workshop

The South Carolina Genealogical Society will be hosting their 2008 workshop July 11 and July 12 at the SC State Archive in Columbia, SC. The link for their web site is listed above. This year I am looking forward to the sessions: Understanding old plats and Newspapers: A pot of gold. See the web site for other sessions.

This workshop is also a great opportunity to see what new publications are available. There are always lots of booths from the state chapters of the organization with their family history books.

Look for me on Friday and Saturday this year.

My news

Many of my colleagues RSS this blog so I thought I would announce my new position so everyone can share in the good news. I have been promoted to Local History Manager at the Richland County Public Library. The start date will be June 30th and I am, of course, very excited. Alot of my work in Periodicals has "cross referenced" with Local History so I think it will be a good fit.

History and genealogy work very well with technology and I hope I will be able to bring some of the 2.0 stuff to our Local History Room. The blog will continue as usual and long live the Dead Librarian.