NEWSWINTER 2016

The Digital Production Center, or DPC, is the UNC Libraries’ home for state-of-the-art digitization technology and expertise. Located in Wilson Library, the DPC provides access to the Libraries’ original source material. It is also where the magic happens for the Digital Heritage Center, as our partners’ materials transform from analog to digital. Here is a look at how we digitize a few types of items before they appear on DigitalNC.org.When an item arrives at the Digital Heritage Center in Chapel Hill, we determine the best way to digitize it by assessing its size, fragility, and format. For fragile and larger items, like scrapbooks and newspapers, we use the Phase One camera system. The Phase One requires an involved process of adjusting the camera height, focusing the camera lens, balancing the color and white references, and editing the final images. For most other items we use Zeutschel scanners. Affectionately called our “bread and butter,” Zeutschels allow us to quickly scan books, newsletters, correspondence, small scrapbooks, and more. With a handy adjustable book cradle, this scanner uses a glass plate to help create sharp images and works well for printed material. For photos, especially those with a glossy finish, we use Epson flatbed scanners. These are a really popular type of scanner for digitization programs because of their high image quality and ease of use. The Epsons allow us to produce a crisp reproduction, without the glare that can often occur with overhead scanners.Staff at the Digital Heritage Center operate all of the aforementioned machines on a daily basis, but sometimes we receive items that give us a different type of challenge. For very large, flat items like maps, we use a Betterlight scanning back mounted on a movable boom in conjunction with a vacuum table that displays the item upright and removes the air for a nice flat surface. Even though the scanning back is far away, the resolution can be incredibly sharp.Once the digital image has been created, it moves on to the metadata stage of the process and ultimately to DigitalNC.org! With the

machines mentioned above (and a few more), we’re able to tackle almost any type of item our partners are interested in sharing online. We take great pride in digitizing with precision and care, and we love partnering with the staff in the DPC to help make it happen.Want more technical information about our digitization process? See “What We Use to Digitize Materials” and “Digitization Guidelines” on our website.

—Elizabeth Blackwood

http://digitalnc.org

Behind the Scenes: How We Scan Our Partners’ Materials

Keep up with the NC Digital Heritage Center

Featured Projects: Livingstone College Yearbooks,

High Point Museum Woman’s Club Scrapbooks

Newspaper Digitization

Featured Image: John I. Taylor Postcard Collection

Featured Image: Early Rockingham County

Architecture Slides

DigitalNC by the Numbers

About the NC Digital Heritage Center

How to Get Involved

Our Partners

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BEHIND THE SCENES:

How We Scan Our Partners’ Materials

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top Adjusting the Phase One’s overhead camera.middle A map is scanned by the Betterlight on the vaccuum table.bottom Digitizing a manuscript with an Epson flatbed scanner.

LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE YEARBOOKS

Livingstone College is a historically black, private college in Salisbury, North Carolina, founded in 1879. Livingstone College’s yearbook, called The Livingstonian, is now available on DigitalNC. With dates ranging from 1927 to as recent as 2014, these yearbooks provide a comprehensive look at the last century of Livingstone College. They feature photographs and articles about the students, staff, athletics, organizations, clubs, the campus, class histories, wills, and poems, and more. The original yearbooks are located in the Archives & Special Collections at the Livingstone College Carnegie Library.

—Anna Loewenthal

Keep Up with the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center:

DIGITALNC BLOGHighlights from the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center collections. Available in RSS format.

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FACEBOOKAnnouncements and featured images.

FLICKRHighlights from the yearbook and newspaper projects.

TWITTERUpdates from the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and colleagues.

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top Classroom, 1928.middle Biology Lab, 1960.bottom Pan-Hellenic Council, 1944.

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FEATURED PROJECTS

TUMBLRNorth Carolina Yearbook #POTW.

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HIGH POINT MUSEUM WOMAN’S CLUB SCRAPBOOKS

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The High Point Woman’s Club, affiliated with the General Federation of Women’s Clubs organization, is an active group that supports many philanthropic

and social projects within their community. Contributed by the High Point Museum, their scrapbooks were the club’s main form of documenting their activities. Scrapbooks like these offer a creative look into clubs, organizations, and communities. You can view nearly 40 years of the organization’s history through the scrapbooks on DigitalNC.

—Elizabeth Blackwood

left High Point Woman’s Club Scrapbook cover, 1997.above Photo from High Point Woman’s Club Scrapbook, 1979.

THE BEAUFORT NEWS

We were pleased to receive a newspaper nomination from the Carteret County Public Libraries for one of our first coastal papers: The Beaufort News. Issues of this paper from 1925-1944 are now available on DigitalNC. This paper covers maritime and tourist news, coastal communities like Harkers Island, and it always has an eye on the weather. Those interested in Eastern North Carolina should also check out issues of the Carteret County News-Times, available from 1948-1949 on DigitalNC.

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MEREDITH COLLEGE STUDENT NEWSPAPERS

On April 22, 1921, students at Meredith College in Raleigh published the first issue of The Twig “to inform, to create interest, and to mould public sentiment.” For the next 125 years, that newspaper, as well as its successor, The Meredith Herald, document all of the long-running traditions that abound at Meredith as well as the academic and social accomplishments of the school’s students. We worked with the archives at Carlyle Campbell Library to bring the entire run of The Twig and The Meredith Herald online.

NEWSPAPER DIGITIZATION

414,998 pages56,124 issues 146 titles

BY THE NUMBERS

above The Beaufort News, August 8, 1940.

FEATURED IMAGE

Tarboro Street, Looking West at Night256 postcards from the John I. Taylor Postcard Collection, transferred to Braswell Memorial Library in 2007, are now available online. These historic postcards include views of nine North Carolina counties (and beyond).

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HOW TO GET INVOLVED

The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center provides digitization and digital publishing services to cultural heritage organizations in North Carolina. Any organization that is open to the public and holds rare or unique materials related to the history and culture of North Carolina is eligible to work with the Digital Heritage Center. We have worked with libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies from around the state, ranging from very small organizations run by a single person to large academic institutions.If you are interested in sharing selections from your collection online, or if you have questions about digitization in general, contact the Digital Heritage Center at digitalnc@unc.edu or (919) 962-4836. We are especially interested in hearing from smaller organizations who have not done any digitization on their own, as well as organizations from counties that are not yet represented on DigitalNC.org.

The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Digital Heritage Center works with cultural heritage institutions across North Carolina to digitize and publish historic materials online. It is supported by the State Library of North Carolina with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, and by the UNC-Chapel Hill University Library.

ABOUT THE NORTH CAROLINA DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTERNCDHC STAFF

Bob AnthonyDirector

Lisa GregoryInterim Program Coordinator

Digital Projects LibrarianStephanie Williams

Digital Projects ProgrammerAnna Loewenthal

Digital Production Manager

Graduate AssistantsShannon Young

Elizabeth Blackwood

Student AssistantJessie Tang

DIGITALNC BY THE NUMBERS

181,900+Images in over 4,000 digital objects, “North Carolina Memory” collection

15,307Images in the

“Images of North Carolina” collection

952City directories in the

“North Carolina City Directories” collection

232Sound and video recordings in the

“North Carolina Sights and Sounds” collection

All 192 of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center’s partner instutions are represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a national digital library that brings together metadata from digital collections around the country into a single, searchable website.In addition, the Center is the DPLA’s North Carolina “service hub”; North Carolina institutions interested in sharing their collections through aggregated metadata feeds can contribute to the DPLA through the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. Browse DPLA collections at http://dp.la. For more information, please contact us.

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56,147newspaper

issues

41,207 community papers

14,940student papers

11,324 campus publications

& yearbooks

4,276college yearbooks

2,488 high school yearbooks

4,041 campus publications

FEATURED IMAGE

Barnes Place, SideA selection of slides from the Early Rockingham County Architecture Collection at Rockingham Community College are now available online.

OUR PARTNERSThe following institutions have worked with the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center to digitize materials from their collections:

Alamance County Public LibrariesAlleghany County Public LibraryAppalachian State UniversityAshe County Public LibraryAsheville-Buncombe Technical Community CollegeBarton CollegeBellamy Mansion MuseumBelmont Abbey CollegeBennett CollegeBenson Museum of Local HistoryBraswell Memorial Library (Rocky Mount, N.C.)Brevard CollegeBuncombe County Public LibrariesCabarrus College of Health SciencesCabarrus County Public LibraryCaldwell Community College and Technical InstituteCaldwell Heritage MuseumCampbell UniversityCarolinas Aviation MuseumCarolinas College of Health SciencesCarteret County Public LibrariesCatawba CollegeCatawba County LibraryCentral Carolina Community CollegeCentral Piedmont Community CollegeChapel Hill Historical SocietyCharlotte Hawkins Brown MuseumCharlotte Mecklenburg LibraryChatham County Historical AssociationChatham County Public LibraryChowan UniversityCleveland Community CollegeCollege of the AlbemarleCore Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage CenterCumberland County Public LibraryDanbury Public LibraryDavidson CollegeDavidson County Public Library SystemDavie County Public LibraryDuke UniversityDuke University Medical Center ArchivesDuplin County LibraryDurham County LibraryDurham Technical Community CollegeEast Bend Public LibraryEast Carolina UniversityEdgecombe Community CollegeEdgecombe County Memorial LibraryElizabeth City State UniversityElkin Public LibraryElon UniversityFarmville Public LibraryFayetteville State UniversityFayetteville Technical Community CollegeFontana Regional LibraryForsyth County Public LibraryFort Bragg Cultural Resources Management ProgramGardner-Webb UniversityGaston College

Gaston County Museum of Art & HistoryGaston County Public LibraryGovernment and Heritage Library,

State Library of North CarolinaGrady-Outlaw Memorial LibraryGranite Falls History and Transportation MuseumGranville County MuseumGranville County Public LibraryGreensboro CollegeGreensboro Historical MuseumGuilford CollegeHalifax County Library SystemHarnett County Public LibraryHaywood County Public LibraryHenderson Institute Historical MuseumHeritage Research Center at High Point Public LibraryHickory Public LibraryHigh Point MuseumHigh Point UniversityHighlands Historical SocietyHistory Committee of the Town of Pine Knoll ShoresHocutt-Ellington Memorial Library (Clayton, N.C.)Iredell County Public LibraryJewish Historical Society of Greater Charlotte located at the

Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and Resource CenterJohnson C. Smith UniversityJohnston County Heritage CenterKing Public LibraryKings Mountain Historical MuseumLawndale Historical SocietyLees-McRae CollegeLenoir-Rhyne UniversityLexington LibraryLincoln County Public LibraryLivingstone CollegeLouisburg CollegeMadison County Public LibraryMars Hill UniversityMartin Memorial Public Library (Williamston, N.C.)Matthews Heritage MuseumMauney Memorial LibraryMcDowell County Public LibraryMercy School of NursingMeredith CollegeMethodist UniversityMitchell Community CollegeMontgomery County Public LibraryMontreat CollegeMoore County LibraryMount Airy Public LibraryMuseum & Archives of Rockingham CountyMuseum of the AlbemarleNC LIVENew Bern-Craven County Public LibraryNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityNorth Carolina Central UniversityNorth Carolina Division of State Historic

Sites and PropertiesNorth Carolina Humanities CouncilNorth Carolina Wesleyan CollegeNorth Davidson Public LibraryNorthwestern Regional LibraryOld Jamestown School AssociationOld Salem Museums & GardensOliver Nestus Freeman Round House MuseumOlivia Raney Local History LibraryOrange County Historical MuseumPage-Walker Arts & History CenterPasquotank County Library

Pender County Public LibraryPerquimans County LibraryPerry Memorial Library (Henderson, N.C.)Pettigrew Regional LibraryPfeiffer UniversityPiedmont Aviation Historical SocietyPitt Community CollegePolk County Public LibraryQueens University of CharlotteRandolph Community CollegeRandolph County Public LibraryRex Healthcare LibraryReynolda House Museum of American ArtRichmond Community CollegeRichmond County Public LibraryRobeson Community CollegeRobeson County Public LibraryRockingham Community CollegeRockingham County Public LibraryRowan-Cabarrus Community CollegeRutherford County LibrarySaint Augustine’s UniversitySaint Mary’s SchoolSalem CollegeSallie Mae Ligon Museum & Archives

& Masonic Home for Children at OxfordSandhill Regional Library SystemShaw UniversitySheppard Memorial Library (Greenville, N.C.)Sisters of Mercy Archives (Belmont, N.C.)South Piedmont Community CollegeSoutheastern Community CollegeSouthern Pines Public LibrarySt. Andrews UniversityStanly County MuseumState Archives of North CarolinaStokes County Historical SocietySurry Community CollegeThe Crossnore SchoolThe Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and

Accepted Masons of North CarolinaThomasville Public LibraryTransylvania County LibraryTufts Archives (Pinehurst, N.C.)University of Mount OliveUniversity of North Carolina at AshevilleUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina at CharlotteUniversity of North Carolina at GreensboroUniversity of North Carolina at PembrokeUniversity of North Carolina at WilmingtonUniversity of North Carolina School of the ArtsWake County Public LibrariesWake Forest School of MedicineWake Forest UniversityWashington County LibraryWatauga County Public LibraryWayne Community CollegeWayne County Public LibraryWendell Historical SocietyWestern Carolina UniversityWestern Piedmont Community CollegeWilkes Community CollegeWilliam Peace UniversityWilmington Railroad MuseumWilson County Public LibraryWingate UniversityWinston-Salem State UniversityYadkin County Public Library