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Supporting Academic Libraries, Driving Student Success

PASCAL equips academic libraries across the state with the essential resources and support they need to drive student success and academic excellence. Providing mission-critical technology, core e-resources, statewide rapid resource sharing services, and more, we empower institutions to deliver top-quality education while fostering collaboration and innovation. Serving over 237,000 students at 54 colleges and universities, PASCAL ensures that every South Carolina student and faculty member has access to high-quality academic content— at a dramatically lower cost than individual libraries could achieve on their own.

Programs & Initiatives

Core electronic resources, including over 25,000 academic journals covering all disciplines and over 470,000 academic e-books. PASCAL also offers its members opt-in electronic resources from over a dozen vendors in the academic marketplace.
PASCAL Delivers, a rapid resource sharing service, that provides access to over 12 million print items housed in academic libraries around the state, as well as digitized copies of articles and chapters from those items
Shared Systems PASCAL provides mission-critical technology resources and support, enabling access and discovery for students, faculty and staff at fifty-three member institutions.
South Carolina Affordable Learning (SCALE), a statewide initiative that supports members' efforts to reduce student costs through the use of quality low-cost and no-cost learning materials.
Common Collections; PASCAL works with member libraries to maintain a robust statewide academic collection that supports the teaching and research endeavors of faculty, staff, and students.