About Us
The ABBE Regional Library System is composed of libraries from a four-county region: Aiken County, Bamberg County, Barnwell County and Edgefield County. Additionally, the system that has an Outreach Van that travels throughout the region.
The ABBE Regional Library System Mission
The Aiken-Bamberg-Barnwell-Edgefield Regional Library System exists to provide materials which communicate experience and ideas from one person to another. Its goal is to assemble, organize, preserve and make easily and freely available to all the residents of its service area the print and non-print materials that will assist them in their pursuit of education, information, research, culture, and lifelong learning.
Board of Trustees
The Aiken-Bamberg-Barnwell-Edgefield Regional Library System has five library boards of trustees. Each of the four counties has a local board composed of members appointed by the appropriate county council. Two members-at-large plus the chairman of each county board also serve on the Regional Board of Trustees, whose functions include setting policy and hiring the director.
ABBE
| MEMBERS
Aiken County Bamberg County Barnwell County Edgefield County |
OFFICERS
Chair Treasurer 1st Vice-Chair 2nd Vice-Chair 3rd Vice-Chair |
Aiken County
| MEMBERS Sherry Atkinson Dolores Bennett Elaine Bollinger Phyllis Boyd Kim Butler Mary Lou Dewar Patricia Helms Barbie Jackson Jane Tuten |
OFFICERS Chair Patricia Helms |
Bamberg County
| MEMBERS Lillian Bamberg Gloria Brown Tenna Kinard Minnie Miller Barb Pinson Hope Long Weldon Doris Wright |
OFFICERS Chair Lillian Bamberg |
Barnwell County
| MEMBERS Ernestine Gillam Eileen Hajdu Sybil Horton Jane Gray Hunter Kathy Orr Rhonda Priester Sylvia Quattlebaum Yvette Sanders Terri Smith |
OFFICERS Chair Sylvia Quattlebaum |
Edgefield County
| MEMBERS Patricia Bryan Ethel Butler Kay Campbell Margaret Childress Jean Covar Deborah Hoffman Leisa Long Lillian Miles Millicent Peeler Darlene Smith |
OFFICERS Chair Patricia Bryan |
Friends of the Library
Our Friends groups are member-supported, nonprofit organizations that advocate, raise funds, and provide critical support to the ABBE Regional Library System. For more information on joining or donating to a Friends’ group, please use the links provided below or contact the ABBE Regional Library Director, Mary Jo Dawson, at 803-642-7575. To view the different Friends groups associated with each county, visit this page.