ensuring democracy through digital access

Ensuring Democracy through

Digital AccessDigital State Publications

Jennifer Davison

Head, Government Documents, State Library of NC

Background NC State Publications Clearinghouse DIMP – Digital Information Management

Program Depository Library Meeting & Depository

System Advisory Committee in 2008 East Carolina University, the State Library

of North Carolina, and the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Scope Beginning in 2009, a total of 360,000

pages (approximately 1,440 volumes) will be digitized over the course of three years from the collections of all partners libraries.

Broad sampling of state publications Emphasis on 19th and early 20th centuries

ncgovdocs.org

Education component to the grant ECU’s Teacher Resources Center will lead a

workshop for master teachers in 2011 Develop educational activities for

classrooms

Research guides Native Americans African Americans Transportation Health Care

Biennial reports of the State’s prison 1919 – 1963/64 Types of offenses Occupation and education level tabulated by race

and age Many years also reported on diseases, tests

performed and surgeries Reports from the 20's and 30's contain neat stuff

about farming and crops as well as inventories of machinery, equipment, and livestock

1930/32 contains the historical development of the state prison system going back to 1816

Timeline Started in 2009-10 Will finish in 2011-12 Public Documents – end of year Web site – Spring Teacher workshops – summer 2011

Vital Statistics – 1915-1996

Public Documents – end of year

Session Laws – during next year

Educational publications

Governor’s Papers John Ehringhaus Jonathan Worth Locke Craig Cameron Morrison Thomas Bickett Angus McLean Oliver Gardner Joseph Broughton Robert Cherry Clyde Hoey William Scott William Umstead

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Internet Archive www-tracey.archive.org/details/ncgovdocs

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