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Explore North Carolina Digital Resources​

 

With your library card, you have access to a wide range of North Carolina digital resources - anytime, anywhere. These online resource include eBooks, articles, yearbooks, maps, newspapers, and more. These resources are all designed to support research, whether it is academic or personal.

 

Also included are resources that can be accessed online without a library card. If a resource is maintained by NC LIVE and requires your library card and PIN to access, that will be stated in the description box. 

If prompted to submit user account information while using these resources:

  • Traditional or virtual library cardholders:

    • Login with library card number and PIN (last four-digits of the phone number associated with your library account).

  • Student Access accounts:

    • Login with your staff or student STATE ID number and PIN (last four-digits of STATE ID number).

Digital NC logo

  • Historical materials from cultural heritage repositories across NC.

  • North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

  • NC’s hub for the Digital Public Library of America

  • Library card NOT required

Digital NC

Sanborn Map Publishing icon

  • Historical maps, detailed property and land-use records in 158 North Carolina towns and cities.

  • 1867-1970

  • Provided by ProQuest via NCLIVE

  • Library card required

Digital Sanborn Maps (NC)

Newspapers.com logo

  • Content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers.

  • 1751 - 1999

  • Alternate name: Newspapers.com North Carolina Collection

  • Provided by NCLIVE

  • Library card required

Historic NC Newspapers

NC LIVE HomeGrown eBooks Logo

  • eBooks from North Carolina publishers and authors. 

  • Includes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.

  • Curated collections.

  • Children, Young Adult, and Adult materials.

  • Library card required

HomeGrown eBooks

LawHelpNC.org logo

  • Statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity.

  • Library card NOT required

LawHelpNC.org

North Carolina Digital Collections logo

  • Contain nearly 175,000 historic and recent photos, state gov publications, manuscripts, and more on topics related to NC.

  • Maintained by State Archives of North Carolina.

  • Library card NOT required

NC Digital Collections

NC Health Info logo

  • Online guide to quality health and medical information and local health services throughout North Carolina.

  • Dual-language online consumer health guide.

  • Library card NOT required

NC Health Info

NCpedia logo

  • NCpedia highlights North Carolina's unique resources, people, and culture to enrich, educate and inform.

  • Coordinated and managed by the NC Government & Heritage Library 

  • Library card NOT required

NC Health Info

NC Works Online logo

  • Employment tools for job seekers in North Carolina. 

  • Search jobs

  • Create resumes

  • Find education and training

  • Research careers

  • Employer resources

  • Library card NOT required

NC Works Online

Open Education North Carolina logo

  • Find free, open textbooks for frequently taught courses at North Carolina's colleges and universities.

  • Coordinated and managed by the NC Government & Heritage Library 

  • Library card NOT required

Open Education NC

Our State Magazine logo

  • Find free, open textbooks for frequently taught courses at North Carolina's colleges and universities.

  • Coordinated and managed by the NC Government & Heritage Library 

  • Library card required

Our State Magazine

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