Are you ready to view a beautiful website?
I’ve posted before on the site about the digitization efforts at the University of North Carolina. They have partnered with the Internet Archive and are actively digitizing many of the materials in their collection. The Carolina Digital Library & Archives is the central website describing the digitization program.
Now, as part of their network of websites, UNC is launching Digital NC, the website to showcase the materials digitiaed as part of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is housed in the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library at UNC and their efforts are certainly to be applauded!
The Digital NC website currently features the following collections:
- NC Yearbooks — hundreds of yearbooks from across the state. Not all of the yearbooks currently listed on the NCGenWeb Digital Bookshelf: Yearbooks page are included, so you’ll be sure to want to check both resources.
- Digital Davie – i includes materials on Davie County pioneers, the Revolutionary War, Education, the formation of the county, etc., with more planned
- Durham Urban Renewal Records – plans for the urban development plans from the 1960s and 1970s. . Records can be searched or browsed by street name, property owner name, or project number.
- Wilson County WWII Veterans — information and memories of county veterans
- Images of NC — images from across the state organized by city; includes postcards from the NC Postcard Collection
The site is still growing so you’ll want to check it often; the News Archive is here and hopefully they’ll provide a RSS feed soon.