Showing posts with label Virtual BDC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virtual BDC. Show all posts
23 June 2020

Access to Research Room Closed ... for the time being

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Circumstances are such that access to the Beaufort District Collection's Research Room ceased effective June 18, 2020 until further noti...
19 April 2020

Celebrate National Library Week 2020 from the Comfort of Your Home

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National Library Week (April 19- 25, 2020) is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and library workers and to...
20 September 2017

Mixing Up Men with the Same Name (revised 6 May 2025)

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(Latest update: 6 May 2025 - gmc) Sometimes research mistakes get made - even by local history librarians and archivists who should know be...
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05 August 2015

BDC Services and Programs

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The Beaufort District Collection is a full service special library and archives in a public library as our logo indicates. We are a unit of ...
12 July 2015

Who's Your Hero?

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As readers are aware, this year's theme for Summer Reading for Youth is "Every Hero Has a Story." SRP ends this Saturday.  O...
01 April 2015

April News & Notes

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We celebrate National Poetry Month during April with a themed display inside the Research Room. You'd be surprised how many poetry books...
11 December 2014

Brooker on Tabby at CDM

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You can learn about the history of tabby construction at the Coastal Discovery Museum next week.   Colin Brooker will discuss tabby an...
19 November 2013

Schedule Adjustments

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When a unit has a staff of two and the Library system itself is understaffed on a daily basis, we cannot always find a substitute to cover t...
12 November 2013

Native American Heritage Month

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November is Native American Heritage Month in the U.S. To honor this national month of commemoration and acknowledgment of the contributio...
19 September 2013

Talk Like a Pirate Day (continued)

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Avast ye! Pirate booty awaits ye at the Beaufort District Collection! Aarrrhhhg!!! Watch and listen as Dr. Larry Rowland tells all abou...
29 March 2013

Notable Women of 20th Century Beaufort County: Part 4

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One component of the "Virtual BDC" is our Wordpress Blog, simply entitled " bdcbcl ." We post lists of materials about t...
20 June 2012

Penn Celebrates 150 Years of Service

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Penn School was founded in 1862 as part of the "Port Royal Experiment."  This weekend Penn Center is honoring its long and en...
21 March 2012

HBF Dinner & Lecture: Spanish American War

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The Spanish American War: More Than a Run Up a Hill will be the topic of Historic Beaufort Foundation ’s Dinner & a Lecture, Monday...
20 January 2012

Even More Changes Coming to the Virtual BDC

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Reminder: We're upgrading to PastPerfect 5.0 on Monday, Jan. 23rd. The Research Room computer will be offline during the installation p...
18 January 2012

No ALE Searching on Monday in the Research Room

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Visitors to the Research Room usually have access to a computer for searching the catalog and/or Ancestry Library Edition. An exception to ...
26 November 2011

The 150th Anniversary Commemoration continues...

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... with a gala 4 day event, Dec. 1st - Dec. 4th. Lead sponsors are the Coastal Discovery Museum and the Lowcountry Civil War Roundtable. ...
17 November 2011

Links to Digital Collections You May Wish to View

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From Serving South Carolina with MORE (South Carolina State Library’s newsletter), Winter 2011 issue, p. 7: Public libraries, universities,...
02 November 2011

Sea Island Hurricane of 1893: A Guide to Resources

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Yesterday, 35 people attended our BDC@ The Branches program for the Bluffton Branch History Book Club session on The Great Sea Island Storm...
27 September 2011

Library Website is currently down

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Our Systems person says that unfortunately the hardware for our Library website has failed. Actions are being taken to mitigate the situatio...
25 August 2011

Preparing a Civil War Lesson Plan? Try these ...

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For all you history teachers out there: The Civil War Trust can help you teach about the Civil War with its free online curriculum mater...