One Book, One Community

02/11/2021

We've officially made the transition over from One Book to our reading challenge and will be closing down this page soon.

We hope you'll join your friends and neighbors and use these fresh reading prompts to discover authors, genres and books you might not otherwise pick up.

Start your challenge, here: https://www.richlandlibrary.com/broaderbookshelf

📢 Important Update

Since 2011, we've been connecting people through the shared reading experience of One Book, One Community. Residents of the City of Columbia, Richland County, and the Midlands have read the same book at the same time and shared their passion for reading with their friends and family.

Each year, this initiative brought together people from all over the area to expand their literary interests and explore different topics, using literature as a lens through which we can understand important issues, discover meaning, and find common ground. Now we’re taking it a step further to broaden the appeal, make the experience more relevant, and engage as many people as possible.

Instead of reading one specific title, we encourage you to participate in the library's Broader Bookshelf project – a librarian-tailored reading challenge designed to expand your reading repertoire and guide you to enjoyable reading outside of your typical fare. Use the Broader Bookshelf prompts to explore a range of different topics and discover new authors, genres, and books that you might not otherwise pick up or download.

Instead of reading just “One Book,” you can personalize your exploration. Prompted to read a book set in the 1800s? Choose from fiction or nonfiction, pick up a military history, romance novel, comic book, biography, travel memoir, or many other options for children, teens, and adults.

We’ll still bring authors to the library for you to meet, get inspired by, and stimulate meaningful conversations around one or more of the prompts.

In fact, now's the perfect time to follow Richland Library for a big author announcement later in the week.

10/19/2020

We couldn't think of a better way to kick off the transition from One Book to than by virtually hosting The Bloggess! Register now.

Jenny Lawson is the creator of the wildly popular blog The Bloggess and author of the bestselling Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir. In her latest book, she writes that clinical depression, anxiety, rheumatoid arthritis, mild OCD and trichotillomania (the urge to pull one's hai...

10/12/2020

📢 Important Update

Since 2011, we've been connecting people through the shared reading experience of One Book, One Community. Residents of the City of Columbia, Richland County, and the Midlands have read the same book at the same time and shared their passion for reading with their friends and family.

Each year, this initiative brought together people from all over the area to expand their literary interests and explore different topics, using literature as a lens through which we can understand important issues, discover meaning, and find common ground. Now we’re taking it a step further to broaden the appeal, make the experience more relevant, and engage as many people as possible.

Instead of reading one specific title, we encourage you to participate in the library's Broader Bookshelf project – a librarian-tailored reading challenge designed to expand your reading repertoire and guide you to enjoyable reading outside of your typical fare. Use the Broader Bookshelf prompts to explore a range of different topics and discover new authors, genres, and books that you might not otherwise pick up or download.

Instead of reading just “One Book,” you can personalize your exploration. Prompted to read a book set in the 1800s? Choose from fiction or nonfiction, pick up a military history, romance novel, comic book, biography, travel memoir, or many other options for children, teens, and adults.

We’ll still bring authors to the library for you to meet, get inspired by, and stimulate meaningful conversations around one or more of the prompts.

In fact, now's the perfect time to follow Richland Library for a big author announcement later in the week.

12/03/2019

is here! Please support the Richland Library Friends and Foundation. Your donation will go directly and immediately toward the library’s work to increase early literacy, spark important community conversations and offer innovative programs like Career Online High School. Every dollar helps ... donate on this Giving Tuesday at: https://bit.ly/382LTSX

08/30/2019

Don't wait! Check out one of Richland Library's Pachinko Book Club Sets ASAP! 📚

"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned...

08/28/2019

Meet the Author:

Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018), the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard (2018-2019), and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2000).

Her novel Pachinko (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017.

A New York Times Bestseller, Pachinko was also a Top 10 Books of the Year for BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the New York Public Library. Pachinko was a selection for “Now Read This,” the joint book club of PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. It was on over 75 best books of the year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN. Pachinko will be translated into 29 languages.

In 2019, Apple ordered to series a television adaptation of Pachinko, and President Barack Obama selected Pachinko for his recommended reading list, calling it, “a powerful story about resilience and compassion.”

08/28/2019

‟Beautiful…Lee’s sweeping four-generation saga of a Korean family is an extraordinary epic.” – San Francisco Chronicle

A saga about four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from their home.

08/28/2019

Drum roll, please.🥁

The 2019 One Book, One Community selection is...

08/27/2019

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EXCITING NEWS!
The 2019 One Book, One Community selection will be announced at
10 a.m. on August 28.

10/30/2018

"On Gator, we used to say, the wind doesn't blow, it sucks. Maybe that's what happened -- the wind sucked it all away. My life, my virtue." - Tim O'Brien, The New York Times (Oct. 2, 1994)

On Gator, we used to say, the wind doesn't blow, it sucks. Maybe that's what happened -- the wind sucked it all away. My life, my virtue.

10/17/2018

Anyone catch the "This is Us" episode co-authored by our 2018 One Book One Community author? :)

Creator Dan Fogelman, episode co-writer and Vietnam vet Tim O'Brien, star Milo Ventimiglia and new cast member Michael Angarano explain how the hour came about.

04/03/2018

Fall Lines Call Extended to April 8!!

2018 CALL for SUBMISSIONS
Fall Lines – a literary convergence is a literary journal presented by The Jasper Project in partnership with Richland Library and One Columbia for Arts and History.
Fall Lines will accept submissions of previously unpublished poetry, essays, short fiction, and flash fiction from January 15, 2018 through April 8, 2018. While the editors of Fall Lines hope to attract the work of writers and poets from the Carolinas and the Southeastern US, acceptance of work is not dependent upon residence.

Publication in Fall Lines will be determined by a panel of judges and accepted authors (ONLY) will be notified by May 30, 2018, with a publication date in July 2018. Two $250 cash prizes, sponsored by the Richland Library Friends, will be awarded: The Saluda River Prize for Poetry and the Broad River Prize for Prose.

Each entry must be submitted as a single independent entry and include its own cover sheet.

Submit each individual poetry submission, along with its own cover sheet, to [email protected] with the word POETRY in the subject line.

Submit each individual prose submission, along with its own cover sheet, to [email protected] with the word PROSE in the subject line.

Cover sheets MUST include your name, the name of the one individual entry you are submitting with that cover sheet, email address, and USPO address. There is no fee to enter, but submissions that fail to follow the above instructions will be disqualified without review.

Please limit short fiction to 2000 words or less; flash fiction to 350 – 500 words per submission; essays to 1200 words; and poetry to three pages (Times New Roman 12 pt.) Please submit no more than a total of 5 entries.

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The Columbia Fall Line is a natural junction, along which the Congaree River falls and rapids form, running parallel to the east coast of the country between the resilient rocks of the Appalachians and the softer, more gentle coastal plain.

01/26/2018

Lots of exciting things happening in 2018! One 📖 is moving to NOVEMBER, which is amazing because we'll be reading Tim O'Brien, Author 's The Things They Carried--all while the nation is 🗣 about the Vietnam War Commemoration. More Details, here: http://bit.ly/2Bvm78l

OneColumbia The Jasper Project City of Columbia Government

01/23/2018

The scrappy successor to the South Carolina Book Festival, the Deckle Edge Literary Festival gathers gathers and fosters the diverse branches of the South’s literary community through an inclusive weekend

07/17/2017

Watch the live stream of the Institute of Museum and Library Services 2017 National Medal Ceremony honoring 10 museums & libraries. Monday, July 17, 2017 3:0...

06/30/2017

Connect with friends and neighbors; build your children's reading muscles; or check out the latest movies, music and books at the newly renovated Richland Library Blythewood.

06/09/2017

Check out your new Richland Library Ballentine from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. on Tuesday, June 13. Local residents are invited to help us officially open the new 13,000 square-foot facility, located at 1200…

05/16/2017

How sweet! (pun intended) 🤣

05/16/2017

05/15/2017

Congratulations Richland Library!!! Well deserved!

05/14/2017

Forged on the idea of community collaboration, Richland Library's Access magazine reflects how we learn, create and share within our vibrant community. Issue 001 Highlights: • Dyslexia: Embracing the…

05/10/2017

We ❤️ partnering with awesome organizations like Historic Columbia !!! Today's "Storytime In The Gardens" was no exception. We read, we sang songs and man oh man we played!! The Hampton-Preston gazebo is beautiful btw (you need to visit if you haven't).

05/09/2017

Head to Richland Library and get your doodle bookmark!

05/02/2017

I'm a philanthropist! Join me in supporting local nonprofits by making a gift of $20 or more through before midnight today.

04/22/2017

Everyone loves to hear a good story. Storytelling connects us with history, families, and each other.

04/20/2017

03/03/2017

Special thanks to Richland Library for hosting such an engaging discussion and book signing with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Leonard Pitts, Jr. on Thursday, February 23.