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Over 500,000 Yearbook Pages Now Online

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We’ve recently passed a big milestone with the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks project: there are now more than a half million yearbook pages available on the site. As of this writing, there are 562,761 pages, with more being added on a regular basis.

We’ve worked with 44 different schools and have digitized a total of 2,922 volumes. There aren’t too many schools left that we haven’t worked with, so I don’t think we’ll get over a million pages, but three-quarters of a million is a distant possibility.

If you are a staff member, student, or graduate of a North Carolina college, university, or community college, and your school’s yearbooks have not been digitized by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, get in touch with us soon and we can talk about how to participate.

Central Carolina Community College Yearbooks Available Online

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Twenty-nine yearbooks and one history of the school from Central Carolina Community College are now available online. Among many other courses of study the school offers a veterinary medical technology program, which frankly have some of the best pictures of any of the yearbooks in the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks digital collection. In addition to the typical student portraits, these volumes also honor the non-human affiliates of the program, including many beloved cats and dogs, horses, cows and even a turtle or two. Here are some of my favorite images:
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North Carolina Library Association in 1939

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As the North Carolina Library Association is winding up its biennial meeting this week in Hickory, we’ve had fun comparing this year’s program with a program from the 1939 meeting, which is in a scrapbook of library activities compiled by the Braswell Memorial Library (Rocky Mount, N.C.) in the 1930s. While this year’s meeting featured lots of sessions about online research tools and e-books, the 1939 program included a “Discussion of the Use of the Printed Catalog Card,” and “A New System of Book Charging for College Libraries.” But a few of the 1939 sessions, like “The Librarian as a Coordinator in an Educational Enterprise” and “Financing the Public Library,” could very well have been titles of talks today.

The full 1939 program is in the Thomas Hackney Braswell Memorial Library Scrapbook, starting on page 32.

Football in North Carolina

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Football season is in full swing, a good time to browse the many football-related images on DigitalNC. I found 49 football-related images in the Images of North Carolina collection, and there are countless more in the college and university yearbooks. Here are some of my favorites:

This photo shows the Davidson College football team in 1906, just 18 years after the first collegiate football game was played in North Carolina.
Image of the 1906 Davidson College football team

The action shot of a punter seems to be a popular subject for sports photographers. The photo at top is from the Braswell Memorial Library (Rocky Mount, N.C.); the one at bottom is from the Tufts Archives (Pinehurst, N.C.).
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Image of a football player kicking

There are several good photos of high school football players and teams on DigitalNC. The top one here shows a player from Lansing High School in Ashe County; the one in the middle of the team from Davie County High School in 1961, and the photo at bottom shows the team from Waynesville Township High School in 1927.
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High School Rebels 1961, Davie County High

 

 

Image of the 1927 Waynesville Township High School Football Team

 

These last three images above are shared by Ashe County Public Library (top), Davie County Public Library (middle), and Haywood County Public Library (bottom).

Newspaper Digitization to Expand in 2011-2012

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I’m excited to announce that we will be adding lots of new content to the North Carolina Newspapers project in the coming year. Over 100 reels of microfilm will be digitized and published online, providing an unprecedented level of access to some our state’s most important primary sources. After receiving nominations from libraries across North Carolina, we selected a range of titles that represent the broad geographic and cultural diversity of our state, and span more than a century of North Carolina history. Visit the page Newspapers Selected for Digitization, 2011-2012 for a full list of titles.

The first papers will appear online later this fall, with the majority coming throughout 2012. Stay tuned to this blog for updates and more information.

Long Street Presbyterian Church

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Image of the 1922 Long Street Presbyterian Church congregation

The 1922 Long Street Presbyterian Church congregation

The Fort Bragg Cultural Resources Management Program recently contributed a wonderful panoramic photograph of the Long Street Presbyterian Church congregation from the 1920s. The church was built in the nineteenth century but became inactive in the 1920s when the land on which it was located was acquired by Fort Bragg. The church still stands today, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Other historic materials contributed by the Fort Bragg Cultural Resources Management Program to DigitalNC include two account books and a public road order.

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