S.C. Code Ann. § 60-1-170

The director of the South Carolina State Library is authorized to do all things necessary and proper to fully cooperate with the United States Department of Education or any other federal agency in the administering of any funds appropriated for the payment of salaries, books, periodicals, library supplies, or equipment, for the construction of library buildings, for the maintenance of the expense of public library services, for interlibrary cooperation, for library services to state institutions, and for library services to the blind and physically handicapped.