Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]

Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke maker of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial, and planetary globes for customers around the world. The story began after his attempt to find a special globe for his father's 80th birthday - failing to find […]

Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]

Please join the Charleston Library Society in welcoming Author David B. Peterson, Executive Director of the Onera Foundation, a private foundation dedicated to supporting historic preservation in the United States. Peterson will discuss his new book US Embassies of the Cold War: the Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense. The lecture will dive into the […]

CLS Book Club is FREE, in-person, and open to the public—whether you’ve finished the book, are thinking about starting it, or couldn’t make it past the halfway point. All that is required is an RSVP via the form below. Please note the author will not be in attendance.  About the Program: Offered a few times […]

Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]

Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]

Due to the high enthusiasm surrounding Story Time, we will be offering this to members only. To join the Library Society, please click here. Join us for our beloved Story Time in the Rabbit Hole! During this hour long, kid-friendly program, children and their parents/caregivers will join Melissa, our Children's Library Coordinator. She will be reading […]

Sofar Sounds - A mystery concert where the performers and venue details are not shared until 36 hours before the event - is coming to the Library Society! As the host, we are excited to be able to share this event with our membership (mums the word) beforehand. In addition, CLS members are extended an […]

The Santee Canal: the first inland navigation route from the Upcountry of the South Carolina Piedmont to the port of Charleston and the Atlantic Ocean, finished in the early 19th century. The Charleston Library Society is honored to host Dr. Richard Porcher, one of three authors of The Santee Canal: South Carolina's First Commercial Highway, for […]

JUNE 10th - JUNE 14th Theme: Wild About Nature During our first week of Camp in the Stacks, the children will enjoy activities, both inside and out, related to the […]

Join us to celebrate the pub date of Lady Tan's Circle of Women, the latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China—perfect for fans of See’s classic Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and The Island of Sea Women. “See […]

CLS Book Club is FREE, in-person, and open to the public—whether you’ve finished the book, are thinking about starting it, or couldn’t make it past the halfway point. All that is required is an RSVP via the form below. Please note the author will not be in attendance.  About the Program: Offered a few times […]

RESCHEDULED EVENT FROM MARCH 2024 The Library Society and Buxton Books are pleased to host renowned historian, Elizabeth Varon, of the Civil War era, for her latest release – the story of American history's most remarkable political about-face. Elizabeth Varon’s Longstreet is a bold new biography of the Confederate general whose support of constitutional rights for […]