1. Dorchester County Library
Headquarters
Tour of the Renovated
Jennie Johnston McMahan Library

2. Street view of the Library Headquarters at 506 North Parler Avenue

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

4. 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.

5. Views from the parking lot

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Reference and South Carolina/Genealogy Resources
Reading/Study area

13. 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.

14. Our new Teen area features café and
casual seating along with 4 Internet
accessible computers.

15. 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.

16. Meeting Rooms

17. We hope you will visit us
at the
Jennie Johnston McMahan
Headquarters Library.
Thank you for taking our tour.
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