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 District 1 Barbie Jackson District 2 Dolores Bennett District 3 Sherry Atkinson District 4 Kim Butler District 5 Elaine Bollinger District 6 Patricia Helms District 7 Mary Lou Dewar District 8 Jane Tuten District At-Large Phyllis Boyd |
OFFICERS Chair Patricia Helms Vice-Chair Secretary |
Bamberg County
| MEMBERS District 1 Barb Pinson District 2 Gloria Brown District 3 Minnie Miller District 4 Lillian Bamberg District 5 Doris Wright District 6 Hope Long Weldon District 7 Tenna Kinard |
OFFICERS Chair Lillian Bamberg Vice-Chair |
Barnwell County
| MEMBERS District 1 Sylvia Quattlebaum District 2 Liana Orr District 3 Eileen Hajdu District 4 Sybil Horton District 5 Yvette Sanders District 6 Rhonda Priester District 7 Jane Gray Hunter District At-Large Ernestine Gillam Terri Smith |
OFFICERS Chair Sylvia Quattlebaum Vice-Chair Secretary Treasurer |
Edgefield County
| MEMBERS Janice Bass Patricia Bryan Ethel Butler Margaret Childress Jean Covar Leisa Long Lillian Miles Millicent Peeler Darlene Smith Judy Stone |
OFFICERS Chair Patricia Bryan Vice-Chair Secretary |
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.