We're the South's oldest cultural institution; America's third-oldest library; the place on lower King Street with the marble steps and big ginkgo trees.
The Charleston Library Society is the South's oldest cultural institution and the second oldest circulating library in the United States. For more than 250 years it has collected, preserved, and made available cultural materials for the use of its members and researchers from around the world. Today, it is a circulating library and a repository of rare books, periodicals, manuscripts, clippings, maps, directories, almanacs, and visual materials.
