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Historic issues of The Enterprise, a weekly newspaper from Williamston, N.C., are now available in the North Carolina Newspapers digital collection. More than 2,000 issues have been digitized, covering the years 1901 through 1934.
The Enterprise was a great source for local news, especially items of interest to the farming community. This title was nominated for digitization by the Martin Memorial Public Library (Williamston, N.C.).
Back in December, we announced our annual call for microfilmed newspaper digitization. We asked institutions throughout North Carolina to nominate papers they’d like to see added to DigitalNC. As it is every year, it was an incredibly tough choice – we are typically able to choose between 40-60 reels out of over 500+ nominated. This year we’ve chosen the following titles and years.
| Title | Years | Nominating Institution |
|---|---|---|
| The Elkin Tribune (Elkin, N.C.) | 1942-1949 | Elkin Public Library |
| The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.) | 1943-1954 | Martin Community College and Martin Memorial Public Library |
| Gates County Index (Gatesville, N.C.) | 1942-1956 | Gates County Public Library |
| Green Line (Asheville, N.C.) | 1987-1994 | Buncombe County Public Libraries |
| The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.) | 1944-1964 | Orange County Public Library |
| The Pamlico News (Bayboro, N.C.) | 1976-1987 | New Bern-Craven County Public Library |
| The Pilot (Southern Pines, N.C.) | 1965-1968 | Southern Pines Public Library |
| The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.) | 1911-1925 | Johnston County Heritage Center |
| The Wallace Enterprise (Wallace, N.C.) | 1931-1955 | Thelma Dingus Bryant Library |
| Winston-Salem Chronicle (Charlotte, N.C.) | 2017-2018 | Forsyth County Public Library |
For our selection criteria, we prioritize newspapers that document underrepresented communities, new titles, papers that come from a county that currently has little representation on DigitalNC, and papers nominated by new partners. After selection, we ask the partners to secure permission for digitization and, if that’s successful, they make it into the final list above.
We hope to have these titles coming online in the first half of 2021. If your title didn’t make it this year don’t despair! We welcome repeat submissions, and plan on sending out another call in Fall 2021.
The following microfilmed newspapers were selected for digitization in 2017-2018. Thanks to supplemental funding from the State Library of North Carolina, we were able to complete more reels than in previous years. Reels were chosen from nominations according to our Criteria for Selecting Newspapers to Digitize from Microfilm.
| Title | Years | Nominating Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.) | 1927-1947 | Alamance County Public Libraries |
| Carolina Indian Voice (Pembroke, N.C.) | 1977-1995 | UNC Chapel Hill |
| Carteret County News-Times (Morehead City, N.C.) | 1948-1960 | Carteret County Public Library |
| Charlotte Post | 1971-1987 | Johnson C. Smith University |
| The Cherokee Scout (Murphy, N.C.) | 1944-1988 | Murphy Public Library |
| Duplin Times (Warsaw, N.C.) | 1962-1985 | Duplin County Library |
| Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.) | 1934-1942 | Martin Memorial Library |
| Farmville Enterprise | 1942-1947 | Farmville Public Library |
| Franklin Press and the Highlands Maconian (Franklin, N.C.) | 1943-1960 | Fontana Regional Library |
| The Franklin Times (Louisburg, N.C.) | 1925-1944; 1963-1969 | Louisburg College |
| Hertford County Herald (Ahoskie, N.C.) | 1914-1923 | Chowan University |
| Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) | 1947-1950 | Wilkes County Public Library |
| Mount Airy News | 1917-1929 | Surry Community College |
| News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) | 1976-1988 | Madison County Public Library |
| Perquimans Weekly (Hertford, N.C.) | 1944-1989 | Perquimans County Library |
| Pilot (Southern Pines, N.C.) | 1948-1965 | Southern Pines Public Library |
| The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.) | 1927-1935 | Person County Public Library |
| Smithfield Herald | 1901-1911 | Johnston County Heritage Center |
| Transylvania Times (Brevard, N.C.) | 1933-1940 | Transylvania County Library |
| Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) | 1950-1963 | Watauga County Public Library |
| Waynesville Mountaineer | 1952-1956 | Haywood County Public Library |
| Winston-Salem Chronicle | 1997-2016 | Forsyth County Public Library |
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