Thomas Cooper Library

Founded in 1976, Thomas Cooper Library is the main library of the University of South Carolina. It has an area of more than 280,000 square feet with a seating capacity of over 2,530 students. The library houses nearly 1.5 million books. Thomas Cooper Library coordinates a program with trained volunteer tutors to assist adults in basic reading, writing and math skills, preparing for the GED test and learning English as a foreign language. The library provides an online full-text magazine, business and financial data, car repair instruction, college catalogs, biographies, statistics, health and medical information, newspaper articles, book recommendations and literary criticism. It offers homebound delivery services that enables homebound residents in the community to use the library s resources. Thomas Cooper Library is located in Columbia, S.C.