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Nantahala Regional Library is the oldest regional library in North Carolina and one of the first regional libraries formed in the United States. Its headquarters is in Murphy, North Carolina. The library has branches in Cherokee, Clay, and Graham counties. [1] The board of directors consists of nine members (three from each county) serving six ...
The State Library of North Carolina is an institution which serves North Carolina libraries, state government employees, genealogists, and the citizens of North Carolina. . The library is the main depository for North Carolina state publications [1] and serves the needs of North Carolina government agencies and state government employees by providing access to information resources that are ...
The library owns microfilm copies of Harnett County Census records, 1790-1930 which is also available through the State Library in Raleigh. The local history collection also includes the N.C. Folklore Society Journal, the N.C. Historical Review, and other literary and scholarly publications from UNC Chapel Hill and Duke.
The library system and the region grew tremendously in this period. The new, architecturally modern Main Library expanded its services to include a Carolina Room for local history and genealogy. In 1956, the library stopped segregating its customers by race and opened its services to all on an equal basis. [5]
The Carolina Room was first included as a separate part of public library service in Charlotte in 1956, when a new Main Library building opened. The previous Carnegie Free Library did not have an appropriate space to store rare documents and books. The Carolina Room made it possible to create an archive within the Main Library. [2]
Library City or town Image Date granted [1] Grant amount [1] [2] Location Notes 1: Andrews Andrews: Apr 13, 1914: $5,000 Demolished in 1979 to make room for a new library. 2: Charlotte Charlotte: Mar 12, 1901: $40,000 310 N. Tryon St. Demolished in 1954. New library building opened on the same site in 1956 and a third in 1989. 3: Durham Durham ...
D. H. Hill Jr. Library stands 11 stories tall and is named for one of NC State's first librarians. The D. H. Hill Jr. Library is one of two main libraries at North Carolina State University. It is the third building to house the NC State University Libraries, following Brooks Hall and Holladay Hall.
Prior to computerization, library tasks were performed manually and independently from one another. Selectors ordered materials with ordering slips, cataloguers manually catalogued sources and indexed them with the card catalog system (in which all bibliographic data was kept on a single index card), fines were collected by local bailiffs, and users signed books out manually, indicating their ...