| Abstract |
Joyner Library's Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection and the Digital Initiatives team in the Systems Department have developed a digital library to meet the needs of students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers who are interested in eastern North Carolina. During 2003-2004 we digitized and made full-text searchable approximately 200 texts and maps pertaining to the history of 29 counties in eastern North Carolina and works of fiction that relate to some of those counties. The materials were selected from the North Carolina Collection and the Snow L. and B.W.C. Roberts Collection of over 1,100 works of fiction set in North Carolina and dating from 1734. Some materials related to Dare County were selected from the Outer Banks History Center collection. Historic soil surveys and maps with zooming capability are a unique feature of the site. |
| Abstract |
In 2004-2005, Joyner Library partnered with Historic Hope Foundation, Tobacco Farm Life Museum, the Country Doctor Museum and members of ECU's College of Education to expand the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library. The successful recipient of the first three-year Heritage Partners grant awarded by NC ECHO, Joyner and its partners are making available over 20,000 additional pages of historic texts related to eastern North Carolina, zoomable maps, zoomable images and video footage of museum artifacts, and related alignments and lesson plans for North Carolina educators. Focus groups with area educators were held to help us refine the site to better meet the needs of teachers and students. The Eastern North Carolina Digital Library contains 399 fiction and non-fiction volumes, 150+ museum artifacts, maps and educational material pertaining to the history of the 41 counties in Eastern North Carolina. |
| General note | Title from title screen (viewed on March 17, 2009). |
| General note | Elizabeth H. Smith, principal investigator, North Carolina history and fiction digital library; in 2005-2006, under the direction of Emily Gore, Project Manager, the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library became the Eastern North Carolina Digital Library. |
| Funding information | Significant support for this project comes from the NC ECHO Heritage Partners grant for 2004-2007. These LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) funds were made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. The NC ECHO website is a portal to cultural repositories and institutions in the state. Previous funding for the original North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library came from NC ECHO in the form of a digitization grant and from Apex CoVantage. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Issuing body | Published 2004-2006 by Digitization Center, Joyner Library, East Carolina University; 2006- by Digital Collections, Joyner Library, East Carolina University. |
| Preceding title |
North Carolina history and fiction digital library |
