MISSION STATEMENT
The Virtual Library of South Carolina Textile History is dedicated to collecting and making accessible published, manuscript, visual, and oral resources that document of the history of the textile manufacturing industry and workers in the state of South Carolina. Our goal is that by doing so we will foster further discourse on the impacts that this industry had on the social and economic history of the state.
We make our collections open to the general public and encourage their use for a wide range research purposes – including historical, architectural, and genealogical pursuits. This library is meant to be an ever-expanding digital collection of materials housed at the South Caroliniana Library relating to textile history and, it will be guided by that institution's mission to acquire, preserve, and disseminate published and unpublished South Carolina-related material.
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY
The mission of the Library of South Carolina Textile History is to preserve and disseminate resources documenting the impact of the textile industry on the social and economic history of the state. This policy is intended to provide a clear, written framework for staff to follow when selecting material to add to the collection and to provide further information to library users about the types of resources collected by the LSCH (LSCH) in order to fulfill that mission. The library will be a subset of the South Caroliniana Library (SCL) at the University of South Carolina and will therefore follow the general rules and collecting guidelines of that institution and will be funded by the same budget and donors.
The library will strive to collect and make accessible the historic record of the textile industry in South Carolina in a variety of formats – including manuscript, published, visual, and audio resources. These materials will date from the industry's beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present-day, and may include personal papers, business records, books, photographs, postcards, architectural records, and oral histories. Items for the library will be cooperatively assessed and selected from the various departments of SCL, and decisions regarding the acquisition new materials (through purchase or gift) for the LSCH will be made by the Director of SCL. While open to research by anyone, the library's collections will be selected with the supposition that the main user groups will be academic scholars, architects, historic preservationists, and non-professional historians.
While realizing the lasting impact that the production of textiles in South Carolina had on the state's agricultural system and the lives of its farmers, this library will limit its collections to those materials pertaining specifically to the production of cotton textiles or documenting the lives of the workers directly employed in this industry.
Collections will be physically stored at SCL, but the LSCH will strive to make its materials available digitally to both the general public and the scholarly community. The library will also cooperate with SCL in the mounting of exhibits, identification of new collections, and community outreach when appropriate. The library will work collaboratively with other regional and national digital initiatives including the South Carolina Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America, and will encourage other regional special collections to do the same in an attempt to thoroughly document textile production in the southeast.
The Virtual Library of South Carolina Textile History is dedicated to collecting and making accessible published, manuscript, visual, and oral resources that document of the history of the textile manufacturing industry and workers in the state of South Carolina. Our goal is that by doing so we will foster further discourse on the impacts that this industry had on the social and economic history of the state.
We make our collections open to the general public and encourage their use for a wide range research purposes – including historical, architectural, and genealogical pursuits. This library is meant to be an ever-expanding digital collection of materials housed at the South Caroliniana Library relating to textile history and, it will be guided by that institution's mission to acquire, preserve, and disseminate published and unpublished South Carolina-related material.
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY
The mission of the Library of South Carolina Textile History is to preserve and disseminate resources documenting the impact of the textile industry on the social and economic history of the state. This policy is intended to provide a clear, written framework for staff to follow when selecting material to add to the collection and to provide further information to library users about the types of resources collected by the LSCH (LSCH) in order to fulfill that mission. The library will be a subset of the South Caroliniana Library (SCL) at the University of South Carolina and will therefore follow the general rules and collecting guidelines of that institution and will be funded by the same budget and donors.
The library will strive to collect and make accessible the historic record of the textile industry in South Carolina in a variety of formats – including manuscript, published, visual, and audio resources. These materials will date from the industry's beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present-day, and may include personal papers, business records, books, photographs, postcards, architectural records, and oral histories. Items for the library will be cooperatively assessed and selected from the various departments of SCL, and decisions regarding the acquisition new materials (through purchase or gift) for the LSCH will be made by the Director of SCL. While open to research by anyone, the library's collections will be selected with the supposition that the main user groups will be academic scholars, architects, historic preservationists, and non-professional historians.
While realizing the lasting impact that the production of textiles in South Carolina had on the state's agricultural system and the lives of its farmers, this library will limit its collections to those materials pertaining specifically to the production of cotton textiles or documenting the lives of the workers directly employed in this industry.
Collections will be physically stored at SCL, but the LSCH will strive to make its materials available digitally to both the general public and the scholarly community. The library will also cooperate with SCL in the mounting of exhibits, identification of new collections, and community outreach when appropriate. The library will work collaboratively with other regional and national digital initiatives including the South Carolina Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America, and will encourage other regional special collections to do the same in an attempt to thoroughly document textile production in the southeast.