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State Library seeks staff and higher per-capita aid, highlights digitization and access programs
Summary
South Carolina State Library Director Lisa Aiken briefed the House Public Education Subcommittee on the library’s digitization work, services for users with disabilities, and a budget request that includes 10 new positions and raising state aid from $2.50 to $3.00 per capita.
Lisa Aiken, director of the South Carolina State Library, told the Public Education Subcommittee of the South Carolina House that the agency is seeking staff additions and higher state aid to expand digitization, preservation and services for patrons who are blind or have print disabilities.
"We are the South Carolina State Documents Depository," Aiken said, adding that the library is "mandated to receive 15 copies of printed documents from all state agencies." She described nightly web crawlers that gather agency materials and a staff process to validate, catalog and add metadata for items that qualify as state documents.
The request to the subcommittee centers on a package of items Aiken summarized as 10 new positions aimed at historic-document preservation, expanded services for the blind and print disabled (including an additional reader advisor), and added support for DISCUS, the state’s electronic resources portal. The state library also…
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