Please Credit Our Collections

Librarians, libraries, and other cultural heritage organizations are aware that how information is created, used, and shared in the 21st century is different than it was in the past. For example, sometimes customers wish to share digital content from our on-line offerings either via social networks or even their own blogs. However we must emphasize that all our BCL content hosted online via the Lowcountry Digital Library and aggregated into the new Digital Public Library of America is copyrighted and all rights are reserved to the Beaufort County Library.  

Accordingly, our content hosted via the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) and aggregated on by the Digital Public Library of America, that is, the 300 selections from the Lucille Hasell Culp Collection and the 548 images of the “Phosphate, Farms and Family: The Donner Collection”, is restricted from downloading.  While it is possible for a customer to perform a low-resolution screen capture of an image, we expect that the customer doing so respects our institution’s rights and will credit the image back to the digital collection by providing a link.  

Here is the credit line we prefer be used for the Lucille Hasell Culp Collection online: “Image courtesy of Beaufort County Library, The Lucille Hasell Culp Collection via the Lowcountry Digital Library.” (where the collection name links back to the image within the collection on the LCDL website.) 

Here is the credit line we prefer be used for the “Phosphate, Farms and Family: The Donner Collection” online: “Image courtesy of Beaufort County Library, Phosphate, Farms and Family: The Donner Collection via the Lowcountry Digital Library.” (where the collection name links back to the image within the collection on the LCDL website.) 

When an image used is credited in this fashion, it increases public awareness of the Beaufort County Library, the Lowcountry Digital Library, the Digital Public Library of America and the contribution that archival and historical collections make to community life. Thank you for helping us bring the past to the present, and preserve it for the future.