Richland County Public Library

Richland County Library will support high school students in the design of a farmers market/public library hybrid facility. The library will work with Lower Richland High School (LRHS) to develop multi-disciplinary in-school programming for the 2017-18 school year that is embedded in the culinary, art and design, engineering and architecture, STEM, and marketing and entrepreneurship courses offered at LRHS. Library staff and students will then work with faculty in Clemson University's architecture department and local design firm StudioLR to turn the students' ideas into a design. Building on their existing partnership with the high school, the library will expose students to a variety of skills and disciplines including entrepreneurship, STEM, community development, and design thinking while addressing issues of poverty, a lack of access to fresh foods, and a lack of job opportunities present in Richland County.