North Carolina: State Preserves Trove of Digitized Lore
From the NewsObserver.com:
History and genealogy fans who overwhelmed federal computer systems at Monday’s release of the 1940s U.S. Census data will find easier going in the history-rich North Carolina Digital Collections.
Tar Heel images contained in the online collection range from downtown Raleigh storefronts decorated for a 1930s Christmas to family milestones recorded in centuries-old Bibles. The resource hasn’t gotten the 37 million hits that overwhelmed the National Archives site, but it has gone from 20,000 views monthly when it debuted in 2009 to 150,000 views monthly.
“We have a fantastic collection of genealogical records,” said Lisa Gregory, digital projects liaison at the State Library, part of the Department of Cultural Resources. “Anytime that someone wrote down birth and death dates in their front of their Bible, we have a huge collection of those to explore.
[Clip]“We have grown by leaps and bounds,” Gregory said. “We get almost daily feedback from users who say how thankful they are that we could help them find someone.”
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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