Prepared as an outline of the long-range South Carolina Library development program required by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this document describes: (1) the library public, with emphasis on the disadvantaged, illiterate, blind and physically handicapped, persons with limited English speaking ability, the elderly, and the institutionalized; (2) South Carolina's libraries and their needs--including discussions of the state, public, major urban resource, institutional, and academic libraries, technical college learning resource centers (TEC), school library media centers, and special libraries--and library education; (3) the criteria, priorities, and procedures to be used for measuring the adequacy of library services, library construction, and inter-library cooperation; and (4) program goals and objectives, which include the strengthening of the state library, improving public library services, extending library services to the institutionalized and physically handicapped, and facilitating utilization of the state's total library resources by means of library cooperation. (CGD)