Dorchester County Library Headquarters

Tour of the Renovated Jennie Johnston McMahan Library

Street view of the Library Headquarters at 506 North Parler Avenue

New driveway entrance off of North Parler Avenue to the parking lot at the back of the lot.

This is your view as you travel down the driveway to the parking lot. You can veer left

and go to the book return box to deposit items or go right into the lot to park.

Views from the parking lot

At the entrance you can either use the steps to enter or use the covered ramp to the right of the steps.

Our lobby entrance has a display area where we are featuring African art.

The front desk is visible as soon as you walk through the security gates. Our inside book return is placed

to the right of the desk.

Our new Media Room is directly across the room from the front desk. It contains all our adult AV materials – audio books, DVDs and music CDs. A HD TV displays current new programs viewable

from the casual seating in the room.

In the Adult area is casual seating next to the magazines and periodicals and the back corner of

the room. Our Adult Fiction, Non-Fiction and Large Print collections are found in this area.

The featured element in our Adult area is the wall mural painted by local muralists, Steve and Virginia Bond, which depicts sites and events in Dorchester County, past and present.

Reference and South Carolina/Genealogy ResourcesReading/Study area

Our public computer center has been expanded to 30 computer stations. Patrons

can now make color or black and white copies in our print/copy center.

Our new Teen area features café and casual seating along with 4 Internet

accessible computers.

Our renovated kids area features a service desk just for kids, an expanded reading area and casual seating for parents. Not pictured are the computer area which contains 6 Internet connected computers for kids and the 4 game computers loaded with educational

games. Off the Kids area is courtyard intended for supervised children’s programming.

Meeting Rooms

We hope you will visit us at the

Jennie Johnston McMahan Headquarters Library.

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