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
ABBE Regional Library Board of Trustees meeting schedule (pdf opens in new tab)
| MEMBERS Aiken County Barbie Jackson Kim Butler Jane TutenBamberg County Brandi Napier Tenna Kinard Barb PinsonBarnwell County Yvette Sanders Kathy Orr Sylvia Quattlebaum Edgefield County |
OFFICERS Chair Sylvia QuattlebaumTreasurer Jane Tuten1st Vice-Chair Vacant 2nd Vice-Chair |
Aiken County
Aiken County Library Board of Trustees Meeting:
October 23, 2025
11:00am at Aiken County Public Library
| MEMBERS Jane Carter Michelle Goings Sarah Lumley Phyllis Boyd Kim Butler Mary Lou Dewar Patricia Helms Barbie Jackson Jane Tuten |
OFFICERS Chair Kim Butler |
Bamberg County
Bamberg County Library Board of Trustees Meeting:
October 21, 2025
4:00pm at Bamberg County Public Library
| MEMBERS Brandi Napier Gloria Brown Tenna Kinard Minnie Miller Barb Pinson Hope Long Weldon Doris Wright |
OFFICERS Chair Barb Pinson |
Barnwell County
Barnwell County Library Board of Trustees Meeting:
November 3, 2025
3:30pm at Barnwell County Public Library
| MEMBERS Ernestine Gillam Eileen Hajdu Sybil Horton Jane Gray Hunter Kathy Orr Rhonda Priester Sylvia Quattlebaum Yvette Sanders Emily Williams |
OFFICERS Chair Sylvia Quattlebaum |
Edgefield County
Edgefield County Library Board of Trustees meeting schedule(pdf opens in new tab)
Edgefield County Library Board of Trustees Current Agenda (pdf opens in new tab)
| MEMBERS Pam Andrews Gloria Bynum Margaret Childress Jean Covar Deborah Hoffmann Connie Herlong Kelli Graham Dana Kaltz Mary Mims Callaham |
OFFICERS Chair |
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.