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North Carolina Digital Heritage Center Reaches 100 Partners!

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With the recent addition of student yearbooks from Lees-McRae College, we are very pleased to announce the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center has now worked with 100 different institutions.  These 100 content partners have contributed an incredible variety of materials related to the history and culture of North Carolina, all of which is easily and freely accessible at DigitalNC.org.

When we began work on the Digital Heritage Center in late 2009, it was always our goal to reach out to as many different organizations as possible.  Here’s the breakdown on types of institutions we’ve worked with so far (some institutions represent multiple types, which is why the numbers add to more than 100):
 
23 Public Libraries
14 Community Colleges
14 Public Colleges and Universities
32 Private Colleges and Universities
9 Historically Black Colleges and Universities
1 Cultural Heritage Organization
3 Historic Sites
3 Historical Societies
8 Museums
4 Private Libraries and Archives

Our partners are spread across the state, from Western Carolina University and the Haywood County Public Library in the west, to Elizabeth City State University and the Wilmington Railroad Museum in the east.  The biggest concentration is in and around the cities in the Piedmont, with eight of our partners located in Guilford County and seven each in Mecklenburg and Forsyth Counties.

While we’ve worked with institutions in all parts of the state, we have yet to reach every county.  Our partners come from 51 different counties, leaving just under half of the state’s counties yet to be represented.  In coming years, we’ll continue to reach out the remaining counties, as well as to organizations of all types and sizes who are interested in working with us on our shared goal of promoting and increasing access to North Carolina’s cultural heritage.

New Design for North Carolina Yearbooks Collection

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Visitors to the North Carolina Yearbooks collection today will find a new and improved design.  The new look makes it easy to pick the school you’re looking for from a list or by typing the name, and includes recent highlights from yearbooks on the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center’s Flickr collections.  The biggest change is that there are now links at the top of the page to two important sections of the site: College and University Yearbooks and the recently-launched High School Yearbooks (more about this soon).  Enjoy, and let us know what you think.

Newspapers Selected for Digitization, 2011-2012

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The following newspapers were digitized from microfilm in 2011 and 2012.

Title Years Nominating Institution
The Mebane Leader 1911-1915 Alamance County Public Library
Highland Messenger (Asheville) 1840-1851 Buncombe County Public Library
The Standard (Concord) 1888-1898 Cabarrus County Public Library
Daily Concord Standard 1895-1899 Cabarrus County Public Library
Mecklenburg Jeffersonian (Charlotte) 1841-1849 Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Miners’ and Farmers’ Journal (Charlotte) 1830-1834 Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Catawba Journal (Charlotte) 1824-1828 Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Western Democrat (Charlotte) 1856-1868 Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
North Carolina Whig (Charlotte) 1852-1863 Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Fayetteville Observer 1851-1865 Cumberland County Public Library
The Carolina Times (Durham) 1951-1964 Durham County Library
The Lincoln Republican (Lincolnton) 1840-1842 Gaston County Public Library
The Lincoln Courier (Lincolnton) 1845-1895 Gaston County Public Library
The Roanoke News (Weldon) 1878-1922 Halifax County Public Library
The Marion Progress 1916, 1929, 1940 McDowell County Public Library
Marion Record 1894-1895 McDowell County Public Library
Marion Messenger 1896-1898 McDowell County Public Library
The Pilot (Southern Pines) 1920-1945 Southern Pines Public Library
Sylvan Valley News 1900-1911 Transylvania County Library
The Pinehurst Outlook 1897-1923 The Tufts Archives
The Goldsboro Headlight 1887-1903 Wayne County Public Library
The Elm City Elevator 1902 Wilson County Public Library
The Wilson Advance 1874-1899 Wilson County Public Library

New Lesson Plans on LEARN NC Feature NC Digital Heritage Center Materials

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Two new lesson plans on LEARN NC feature materials digitized and published by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center:

  • “Life On a North Carolina Military Base in Wartime,” a lesson plan for Grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies students, explores the daily lives of soldiers and civilians at the Basic Training Camp in Greensboro during World War II using the digitized copies of the base newspaper, which are held by the Greensboro Historical Museum.*
  • “This Day in Headlines,” also for 8th graders, introduces students to primary source research by looking at the @ncdhc Twitter feed, which features a different historic headline from the North Carolina Newspapers collection every day.

LEARN NC, based at the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill, is a terrific resource for K-12 teachers and students, providing a wealth of free, online lesson plans, learning materials, and other resources.  Look for more lesson plans (and podcasts!) from LEARN NC featuring NC Digital Heritage Center materials coming this summer and fall.

*[Update, January 2015. This newspaper can be viewed online in the Greensboro Historical Newspapers collection, hosted by UNC-Greensboro.]

North Carolina Digital Heritage Center On Flickr

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May marks the beginning of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center’s presence on Flickr.

Faithful followers of our blog or fans of our Facebook page will recognize some photos now presented on Flickr, and we will also be adding new content each week. In addition to making photos available from our Images of North Carolina collection, Flickr offers us the opportunity to extract images from our North Carolina Newspapers and North Carolina College and University Yearbooks collections in DigitalNC.


There are many ways to discover interesting photographic images from our contributing institutions around North Carolina via Flickr. You may browse our photostream on Flickr, or subscribe to an RSS feed of our photostream (follow the link and paste the URL into your feed reader).

You may also browse smaller sets within our photostream. So far we’ve added the following sets:

If you prefer to have photos from a particular set come to you via your RSS reader, there’s a link to an RSS feed (paste the URL into your feed reader) at the bottom of each set page.

What kinds of photos would you like to see from the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center on Flickr? Graduation photos? Baseball photos? Summertime photos? Let us know in the comments!

North Carolina Newspapers on Twitter

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If today’s headlines have you down, trying reading old news instead. The NC Digital Heritage Center makes its first foray into Twitter with @ncnewspapers, where we’ll be tweeting a historic headline every day from that day in history. The stories we feature will span the full range of North Carolina history from the 19th and 20th centuries. It’s a fun way to peek into our state’s past, and a great introduction to the wealth of material available in these historic papers.

New Feature: On This Day in North Carolina History

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Head over to the North Carolina Newspapers collection for a new feature: This Day in North Carolina.  Users can now easily pull up all of the newspapers from the collection that were published on this day in years past.  Today’s search — December 5 — brings up ten different issues, ranging in date from 1826 to 1997.  It’s fascinating reading.  Here’s a sample of what we found:
Many people may not realize that North Carolina has been in the lottery business for centuries.  On December 5, 1826, the Catawba Journal published an announcement for a lottery to fund a history of North Carolina.
On December 5, 1941, just two days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Southern Pines Pilot published an exclusive interview with the Prime Minister of Canada, talking about the Canadian war effort.
On December 5, 1942, the Carolina Times led with a big headline announcing that the city of Raleigh had just hired on African American policeman.
On December 5, 1988, Black Ink published an analysis of Jesse Jackson’s presidential candidacy.
Stay tuned for news and updates on the North Carolina Newspapers project, including a NC Newspapers Twitter feed to be released in January.

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.

Over 1,000 North Carolina College and University Yearbooks Available Online

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The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center has now digitized over 1,000 yearbooks. Fourteen different colleges and universities have participated in the program to date, and many more are scheduled to participate over the next year. The yearbooks on the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks collection range in date from 1890 (UNC-Chapel Hill) to 2009 (Elon University, Campbell University, and Meredith College). Whether you’re researching family history, looking up old sports teams, or reliving your college years, the online yearbook collection is a great place to spend some time.

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