ABBE Regional Outreach Van

04/05/2026

03/14/2026

Believe Belvedere 2026

10/30/2025

Millbrook Elementary Stem Fall Festival tonight

10/18/2025

2025 Shout fest Unityfest

08/21/2025

The winner of our summer reading bag was Ms Linda White, a resident of The Oaks....congrats!!

05/23/2025

Summer Reading Registration begins TOMORROW, May 21! Drop by the library to pick up a paper reading log OR use abbe.beanstack.org
If you use Beanstack, you can keep up with your reading streak and earn digital badges. Families can be linked together, so all family members can be accessed with one login.

Everyone who reads at least 450 minutes between May 21 and August 1 will be entered into a gift card drawing at their library. Kids and teens can also pick up a prize.

Also starting tomorrow, every ABBE Library will pass out Mini Sculpture kids to patrons of all ages while supplies last. Bring your completed artwork back to your library no later than June 26th to have your work displayed. Every library will display artworks beginning July 7. Sculpture kits made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Science and the South Carolina State Library.

04/10/2025

Today is National Bookmobile Day so I thought I would share with you some information about that and some photos of how far the bookmobile has come through the years!
History of National Bookmobile Day:
The beginning of the bookmobile tradition in the United States is credited to librarian Mary Titcomb, who launched the first bookmobile in the early 20th century. Titcomb wanted to start a transport system to get books to rural communities. Her bookmobile was a horse-drawn wooden carrier that contained boxes of books. These boxes were sent to post offices and nearby stores. In 1912, horses were switched out and the first motorized bookmobiles were born. These bookmobiles went to rural and urban schools, as well as to the homes of senior communities. They were even sent to people in remote mountainous areas where access to libraries is scarce.

The Great Depression and the World Wars had a negative impact on this initiative, and for a while, bookmobiles were on the decline. However, during the 1950s, they made a comeback. This resurgence came about due to the Library Services Act of 1956. Bookmobiles helped expand library services to reach more than 30 million people in small rural communities. Sadly, rising fuel costs once again threw a spanner in the works.

Thanks to the invention of the internet, many 21st-century bookmobiles have shifted to digital platforms in order to meet people’s reading needs while also cutting down on fuel costs.

In 2010, National Bookmobile Day was established and began to be celebrated as a part of National Library Week. This was done to show gratitude to all the library transport services provided in various communities around the United States. The American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country sponsor this event.

03/24/2025

Believe Belvedere was a great day!