Twenty-five sites in Berkeley County are on the National Register of Historic Places. Just one of them is explicitly associated with the Black experience. Join CLS in welcoming a panel […]

In partnership with the Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival, and in anticipation of its return to Charleston this November, we are pleased to host St. Lawrence University Professor Alessandro Giardino […]

The RMS Titanic was not the only luxury transatlantic ocean liner to suggest 'largest, fastest, safest... and yes, unsinkable'. The SS Andrea Doria was a flagship of the Italian Line […]

This fall the The Artist Collective presents a return of its Plein Air show to Charleston, but its first full show here at CLS.  Join us to meet artists from […]

Foreign Policy has been a welcomed addition to our diverse programming, and this discussion could not be better timed. Along with the World Affairs Council of Charleston and Buxton Books, […]

Within weeks of its release, CLS is thrilled to host the former Home Editor of Vogue Magazine and Design Editor at Large of Elle Decor, Mieke ten Have, for the […]

CLS Book Club is FREE, in-person, and open to the public—and also member-researched and led through thoughtfully curated discussion. Whether you’ve finished the book, are thinking about starting it, or […]

After emerging from a lively conversation in our Fellows Lounge, CLS Wine Club has been welcomed on repeat – this Fall marking 2 years since its first. During the Fall […]

As the second oldest membership library in the United States dating to 1748, it is quite special to have recently celebrated 275 years of continuous operations, and even more special […]

Please join us for our New Members Mingle! Every second Monday of the month, we host our newest members of the CLS family for a fun and informative tour of […]

When the adventure began, the bag on his back had a binder with maps, 103 room reservations and over 40 tee times. By the end of the trip he had […]

The contemporary story of one of the wealthiest and most misunderstood families in the world, unearthed by leading editor, journalist and Vanity Fair writer-at-large James Reginato, makes a special appearance this […]

Charleston resident Jonathan Jasper Wright, an attorney originally from Pennsylvania, was sworn into his seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1870 – as the country's first African American […]

Along with Buxton Books, we are thrilled to welcome beloved author Roxana Robinson for exclusive appearance on her latest release, Leaving, a novel that explores the vows we make to […]

Back for an encore at the Charleston Library Society, the Cabaret Couple (Theresa Quinn and Randall Kramer) will present an evening of virtuosic four hands piano and song, including favorites […]