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Government and Heritage Library closed for Thanksgiving Weekend
The Government and Heritage Library will be closed Thursday, November 22th – Saturday, November 24th for the Thanksgiving holiday. Normal hours will resume on November 26th. Have a good holiday!...
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LAST SATURDAYS WORKSHOPS: RESEARCHING YOUR REVOLUTIONARY WAR ANCESTORS
Join us for the last Saturday of the month for free quarterly genealogy programs presented by the Government and Heritage Library and the State Archives of North Carolina. Saturday, January 26, 2013,...
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Our Expanding State Government Social Media Archiving Program
open government, by flickr user opensourceway Since 2005, the State Library and State Archives have partnered to capture, or “harvest,” North Carolina state government web sites through a fantastic...
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Symphony Stories
If you attended school in North Carolina, then chances are you’ve had the opportunity to participate in the North Carolina Symphony’s educational concert program. The Government and Heritage Library...
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Civil War 150: Women in the Confederacy
In honor of March being Women’s History Month, I thought I would highlight an interesting book I found in our genealogy collection at the Government & Heritage Library – North Carolina Women of the...
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Dare County – yesterday and today
“Dare County in the 1930s,” a special photo exhibit, opened on March 1st at the Outer Banks History Center. The exhibit will remain up through October 15th. If your travel plans during that time take...
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Picture of a picture of the UNC Band, 1926-27
This picture was taken during a site visit to the Hertford County Public Library during the former NC ECHO project in 2002. It is of the 1926-27 UNC Band. More images of institutions, exhibits, and...
View ArticleDigital Preservation Webinar Series
Hey North Carolina librarians, next week I”ll be kicking off a four-part webinar series on Digital Preservation. Brought to you by ASERL, the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, these...
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Footprints identified in copy of early North Carolina laws
The North Carolina Digital Collections has digitized laws going back to the mid-1700s. With thousands of pages, you can probably imagine that we don’t look through them all when we receive the files...
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Researching Your Civil War Ancestors – Free Genealogy Workshop
April 13, 2013 Genealogy Workshop: Researching Your Civil War Ancestors Don’t forget to join us on April 13, 2013 as staff members from the Government & Heritage Library and the State Archives of...
View ArticleHistoric Houses, Military Museums, Arts Councils and … Commode Collections
Our newest addition to the North Carolina Digital Digital Collections is photographic evidence of the incredible variety and endless pride North Carolinians have for their cultural heritage. It’s...
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Preservation Week: Redesigned digitalpreservation.ncdcr.gov launched today!
It’s national Preservation Week! Stay tuned to the blog for posts about all things digital preservation. Today we’re starting BIG, as we unveil our redesigned digitalpreservation.ncdcr.gov. Now...
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Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects, NC Style
It’s National Preservation Week. On Monday, we announced a redesigned Digital Preservation Education website. Today, we’ve got another announcement specifically for North Carolina libraries, archives,...
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An Early Happy Mother’s Day
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, aka Whistler’s Mother, by James McNeill Whistler (1871) This Sunday is Mother’s Day in the United States (you’re welcome, to those who had forgotten). I did a...
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State Doc Pick of the Week : Living history classroom : an educational...
Looking for lessons or activities for your students that explore North Carolina history and culture? The Living History Classroom is published twice a year by the Tyron Palace Foundation and is...
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SAVE THE DATE: FAMILY HISTORY FAIR – OCTOBER 26, 2013
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2nd Saturdays: Tour of Old State Library and Rare Book Exhibit – August 10, 2013
Tour of the Old State Library at the State Capitol of North Carolina Join staff from the Capitol and North Carolina Government and Heritage Library for special tours of the recreated library on the...
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Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! Need some inspiration? Read about Blackbeard, North Carolina’s most famous pirate, in an article in NCpedia reprinted from the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography at...
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2nd Annual Family History Fair – October 26, Raleigh, NC
The annual Family History Fair celebrates links to our heritage. This year’s program offers presentations and a panel discussion about the types of evidence used to trace family ancestry – from public...
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2nd Annual Family History Fair: Exhibitors – Genealogy and Lineage Societies
In a series of posts leading up to October 26th we will be highlighting the various vendors and activities that will be part of the Family History Fair sponsored by the Department of Cultural...
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