Details for the Fall Documents workshop are beginning to come together. The workshop will be held at the McKimmon Center on October 23rd. The focus will be depository CD-ROMs, how to best use them to meet the information needs of your clientele.
The day will include: short discussion of Federal requirements for providing access to this data, the concept of providing different levels of service for CD-ROM titles and the decision making process involved in assigning a level of service, a handout on URLs of depository CD-ROMs and perhaps a quick look at web sites which offer more data than the CD, a panel discussion including librarians from different types of libraries discussing which CD-ROMs are most useful to your patrons and how do you provide access?
We plan to have time for small group follow-up after the panel discussion. Please assist in this discussion by coming to the workshop with titles of the CDs which are most frequently used in your library. We hope to compile and distribute this data after the workshop.
--Nancy Kolenbrander, Western Carolina, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, Documents
Section
May brought another successful Documents Section workshop! Nancy Kolenbrander organized the well-attended workshop "The Old North State: State, County and Local Information in North Carolina." Among the highlights for me was a presentation by Alice R. Cotton and Eileen McGrath of the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill. Other presenters, who gave thorough reviews of web resources, were Alex Hess of the Institute of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill, Mark Thomas from Duke and Harrison Dekker of the Office of State Planning.
But we're not resting on our laurels. Nancy is now planning our Fall workshop on Federal electronic information. Watch NCDOCS and the Documents Section web page for the date [Oct. 23rd], location [McKimmon Center] and presenters. I know it will include information on guidelines, and a time to share experiences and new ideas for all of us.
This fall brings our elections. We're looking to you to participate in your organization! Would you like to help plan our workshops, have a topic you think we need to address, would like to participate in a professional organization but don't know where to start? We have just the positions for you: * Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (3 years) * Secretary/Treasurer (2 years) If you are interested in these opportunities please call me!
In state issues, the Documents Section has been asked to join the State Depository System Advisory Board to create a task force on state documents. This task force will explore the issues surrounding the movement of state government information to electronic form. I am working with Dawn Hubbs, the Chair of the Advisory Board, to form the task force.
On the national front, the "Wendell H. Ford Government Publications Reform Act of 1998" (S.2288) was introduced by Sen. John Warner (VA) on July 10, 1998. I encourage all of you to read S.2288, which is available full-text from GPO Access at http://www.access.gpo.gov/ or Thomas at http://thomas.loc.gov/. This is the long awaited bill designed to revise Title 44 of the U.S. Code. It is currently under consideration in the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms is a member of that committee. As government information providers to the citizens of North Carolina, we need to alert Sen. Helms to the importance of access to government information and the importance of the reforms proposed.
Finally, membership. The membership of the Documents Section has declined this year. We are now the smallest NCLA section. I ask all of you, if you know of colleagues who are not members of NCLA and the Documents Section, to encourage them to join! I think we contribute valuable state-level programming and networking opportunities. I have brand new NCLA Application forms which I would love to distribute to any interested individuals.
I hope you are having a cool, relaxing summer! I look forward to seeing you in the fall.
--Ann Miller, Duke University, Chair, Documents Section
Once again, you should be able to find an online copy of this newsletter at the Documents Section homepage (http://www.unc.edu/~mvanfos/ncla/index.html) within a few days of receiving this. Encourage people you know who are not members of the Documents Section to check out the programs we offer. And encourage them to get acquainted with new publications which might be of interest to their patrons and try the great web sites which we feature in every issue.
One of our standard columns has been on useful web sites for government information. William Spivey, our columnist, has moved out of state, and we are looking for someone who is interested in taking over that spot. Please let me know if you might be interested, or if you know someone you'd like me to ask. In this issue, look for Alex Hess's handout from his presentation at our Spring Workshop. The web sites he lists for county and city information are many and varied.
As always, please let me know what you want to see in “The Docket” and plan
to attend the Documents Section Fall Workshop.
--Marilyn Schuster, UNC Charlotte, Editor, The Docket
The American Library Association Annual Conference was held in Washington, D. C., June 26th-30th. The weather was hot and muggy and the meetings were long and tedious. I spent much of my time dealing with the ASCLA/GODORT merger. During that time I went to many ASCLA meetings as well as the GODORT Ad Hoc committee on Organization. One last hour of discussion was held at the GODORT business meeting on this event. The ballots have actually been sent already and some of you may have already gotten yours. I received mine day before yesterday. If you are a GODORT member and still do not know how you are going to vote there is lots of information on GOVDOC-L and at the GODORT Home Page (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GODORT.
The other major discussions were about the revision to Title 44 of the U. S. Code. We have been dealing with this issue for two years now. GODORT has been a very active part of the Inter-Association Working Group on Government Information Policy (IAWG) which has worked closely with Senate staff members to craft a bill which would enhance and improve public access to government publications. IAWG had hoped that this bill would be introduced during the ALA Annual Conference but last minute delays made this impossible. However, on July 10, Senator John Warner and Senator Wendell Ford jointly introduced S. 2288, "The Wendell H. Ford Government Publications Reform Act of 1998." This bill includes provisions to revise Chapter 19 of Title 44, the last governing public access to government publications and the Federal Depository Library Program. It is a good bill and contains provisions that we have worked for years to incorporate into the Federal Depository Library Program.
Many of these ideas date back to the Dupont Circle Group and Chicago Conference. You can find full information on the bill and the IAWG materials at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GODORT/IAWG . Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this bill and please do write both North Carolina senators and urge them to support this important piece of legislation. It is very important that this pass during this current Congress, as we may not have this chance again.
--Ridley Kessler, Regional Documents Librarian, UNC-Chapel Hill
In June, Wess Wessling, your reporter for this column, retired a second time, packed bag and baggage in a U-Haul truck, and moved to the great state of Washington. (I have had a lot to say about that, since I am a native of Washington myself.) In his absence, I am filling in temporarily with a few titles that have passed my desk in the last few weeks. As always, look for more information on these and other titles in the Checklist in paper copy or online at our website http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/stdocs/cheklist.htm.
At 5:15 A.M., the commentator on NPR (National Public Radio) stated unequivocally that Hispanics will be the largest minority in the United States by the year 2000. Don't ask me how I remembered that under the circumstances, but having just seen “Developing, Translating and reviewing Spanish Materials: Recommended Standards for State and Local Agencies,” published by the Migrant and Refugee Health Program in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services may have had something to do with it. Although the title emphasizes developing useful materials for health promotion and describing health risks in Spanish, any agency considering translating their program information could use the interview questions for a potential translator or information on formats preferred by Spanish speaking individuals provided in this text.
For any of us closer to retirement than college graduation or who are responsible for an aging parent in North Carolina, the following title could be useful. Published by the Department of Health and Human Services, the “Directory of Health and Aging Resources for Health and Aging Service Providers and Older Adults in North Carolina,” also known as the “Senior Phone Directory,” is an up-to-date listing of state programs, community groups, county social services offices, volunteer programs, and advocacy organizations all over the state engaged in activities that assist the older population in North Carolina. Email addresses are included for most listings.
“Seashells in North Carolina,” recently published by the N.C. Sea Grant College Program, has good color photos and identification information for all those shells you and your kids picked up and trucked home while on vacation this year. If you would like microfiche copies of this title, we have several extras that our microfiche contractor sent to us in error. They are free, just email me! For those of you who want to slay your own food, you may be interested in another new Sea Grant publication, “A Guide to Recreational Clamming,” a companion to “A Guide to Recreational Shrimping.” Seems like a lot of work to me when the grocery store is so close, but then maybe I just don't have a sense of adventure. Speaking of beaches, the North Carolina General Assembly Committee on Coastal Beach Movement Issues was busy this past year and submitted a report on their recommended changes to laws in a report, “Coastal Beach Movement Issues,” published in May of 1998.
If you are looking for a good historical read among the state agency publications, you may want to get the revised edition of “From Ulster to Carolina: the Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina,” by H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis Wood, Jr., originally published in 1983 by the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. The new edition is published by the Division of Archives and History with some additional information and references.
I won't bore you with the multitude of land use plans and bridge replacement or road work environmental impact studies that we get in daily, but these provide useful information for you and your patrons if the land, bridge or road is close to your house or on your commuting route. Your tax dollars at work. Keep them in mind.
--Sally Ensor (sensor@hal.dcr.state.nc.us), Clearinghouse Coordinator
The Documents Section Spring 1998 workshop, held on May 15 at the McKimmon Center on the campus of North Carolina State University, brought five knowledgeable speakers before an audience of more than sixty participants to hear presentations on sources of North Carolina information - state, county, city, local - electronic and archival.
Alex Hess, the librarian at the Institute of Government, UNC-Chapel Hill, began the day with a discussion of “Statistical Information for North Carolina Counties and Cities.”
With the explosive increase of information on the Internet, an ever growing variety of statistical data of great interest and utility to local governments is becoming available at the touch of a keyboard.
Web sites, such as those of the United States Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/) and the North Carolina Office of State Planning (http://www.ospl.state.nc.us/), offer general demographic information in many different formats, which individual federal or state agencies (the North Carolina Department of Agriculture at http://www.agr.state.nc.us/stats/ for example) provide data for particular fields or occupations.
In addition, the widespread use of the Portable Document Format (PDF) with Adobe Acrobat allows a user to produce a copy of the material found on the Internet in a form virtually indistinguishable from the original printed version.
A list of such web sites presented at the NCLA Documents Section Spring Workshop will soon be available on the Institute of Government's home page (NCINFO - http://ncinfo.iog.unc.edu/) in the Other Resources section (and will eventually be included with other Internet site lists in an Institute Library page under construction at the present time). [List of sites also available in this issue.]
This list will also include the non-Internet "paper" materials that were discussed at the workshop and will be updated to keep pace with the publication of additional material or the expansion of existing sites or directories. It's hoped that the provision of information on the Internet for municipalities and other local units of government will begin to match that for counties, which up until the present, have served as the primary units for most data providers. An encouraging sign is the addition of municipal or school board categories to the larger indexes for future use, even when at present the columns are mostly empty.
Questions, suggestions for improvement and, new discoveries are welcome. We can be reached by e-mail at hess.iog@mhs.unc.edu (Alex Hess) or lobacz.iog@mhs.unc.edu (Marsha Lobacz) or by phone (919-966-4172) and fax (919-966-4762).
Alice R. Cotten, Reference Historian of the North Carolina Collection, and Eileen McGrath, Collection Management Librarian in the Collection, presented an overview of the North Carolina Collection's history, holdings, and services. Their talk was accompanied by text and photographic slides and a handout with the phone and fax numbers for the Collection and its postal and Web addresses.
Eileen McGrath handled the history and holdings of the Collection. The North Carolina Collection traces its origin back to the founding of the North Carolina Historical Society in 1844. After the upheaval of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Society's library became part of the library of the University of North Carolina. The library's North Carolina materials were organized into a separate library department in 1901. During the first two decades of this century the collection experienced sensational growth through purchase of the private collection of the North Carolina historian Stephen B. Weeks, and through the ceaseless efforts of the North Carolina Collection's first librarian, Mary Lindsay Thornton. At mid-century, the North Carolina Collection received the Bruce Cotten Collection of North Caroliniana and established the Thomas Wolfe Collection as one of the sub-collections within the department.
Today the North Carolina Collection contains over a quarter of a million items. Printed books, pamphlets, and serials make up the largest part of the cataloged collection (210,000 volumes), but there are also 28,000 pieces of microfilm or microfiche, 4,700 maps, 4,700 broadsides, and 1,500 audio-visual items. In addition to these cataloged items, the collection has 400,000 photographic images and 15,000 museum artifacts. The North Carolina Collection is also a full depository for North Carolina state documents.
Numbers don't tell the whole story, so Eileen took some time to highlight the subject areas where the collection is particularly strong. Naturally, the collection is rich in printed histories of the state and published materials by and about UNC. The collection is also strong in materials on the religious groups in the state and individual churches and church-related associations; materials for counties, cities, towns, and even smaller localities; and state-level educational and civic associations. Eileen made the point that the North Carolina Collection has never been weeded - the Collection still has many items that other libraries tossed because they were considered dated or didn't have the space to save. Finally, Eileen mentioned the great interest the Collection has in preserving and promoting the state's literary heritage. Collecting in this area is comprehensive. Of course, published works of poetry and fiction are collected, but so are proofs, advance reading copies, translations, books-on-tape (if read by the author), and reviews.
Alice Cotten explained how to get access to all these treasures. One way that many users choose is to visit the Collection in person. The North Carolina Collection is the only one of the special collections at UNC that is open seven days a week (8-5 Monday-Friday; 9-1 Saturday; 1-5 Sunday). Reference questions can be submitted in person, by phone, fax, or e-mail.
Those visiting the Collection will want to use both the online catalog (also available via the World Wide Web) and the card catalog, available only in the Reading Room of the North Carolina Collection. Less than half of the Collection's holdings are in the online catalog. Work is being done on this, but the card catalog in the Reading Room is still an essential finding aid for most topics. Those visiting in person can also use special finding aids such as the index to compiled biographies, the imprint file of items printed in North Carolina through 1880, the newspaper clipping files on people and subjects, the literary scrapbook files of book reviews and literary criticism, and of course, the actual books, pamphlets, and other items.
Use of the collection is not limited to those affiliated with the University. Much of the collection is non-circulating, ensuring both the preservation of the items and that those who come in person will find the items there for their use. For titles for which there are multiple copies, there is often a circulating copy. If an item circulates, it is most often also available for interlibrary loan. A self-service copier is available in the Reading Room for materials that can be copied safely. Many books and pamphlets from the collection have been filmed as part of several NEH/SOLINET projects. These titles are listed in OCLC and the UNC online catalog, and copies of the film can be made by the Collection's photographic laboratory for a modest price. Some volumes from the collection are available in digitized form through the library's Documenting the American South project; more volumes will be added.
The collection has a web site that, in addition to descriptions of holdings and services, includes selected photographs of each of the one hundred counties in the state, photographs of Thomas Wolfe, a roster of early North Carolina photographers, and tips on the care of photographs. A number of reference files have also been mounted, including indexes to the North Carolina Collection's newspaper clippings files, a list of the winners of various North Carolina literary awards, a descriptive list of UNC student publications, and a guide to the Thomas Wolfe Collection.
In addition to traditional reference work and newer Web and digitization projects, North Carolina Collection staff are involved in a number of other activities designed to publicize and make available the holdings of the Collection. These include the publication of two bibliographies in the 1950s by Mary Lindsay Thornton, and a more recent bibliography by H. G. Jones in 1995. A few selected letters from the Thomas Wolfe Collection have been issued in facsimile as broadsides, and a segment of letters about Wolfe by his editor, Maxwell Perkins, were edited by Alice Cotten and published by the Thomas Wolfe Society in 1997.
Eileen McGrath has written on the Hayes Library, the Bruce Cotten Collection, and African-American Baptist Association minutes held by the Collection. Photographic Archivist Jerry Cotten's book on the photographer Bayard Wootten, whose negatives are part of the Collection, will be published in fall 1998 by the University of North Carolina Press. Robert Anthony, Curator, has written on early libraries in the state and on various resources of the Collection. A new program, Second Sunday Readings, which is cosponsored by the Collection, the Creative Writing Program at UNC, and the North Caroliniana Society, brings creative writers and interested readers to Wilson Library for readings during the school year. The schedule is posted on the collections web site. Address: North Carolina Collection, CB 3930, Wilson Library, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890; Email: ncref@email.unc.edu. Web: http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/; UNC library's online catalog: http://www.lib.unc.edu.
After lunch, Harrison Dekker from the Office of State Planning (OSPL) gave the group an update of the statistical resources of that agency.
OSPL's mission "is to advance sound public policy analysis, planning, and decision-making by developing and disseminating pertinent information. This mission is achieved through responsive service, leadership, and collaboration." It is the state's lead agency for U.S. Census data, and manages a great deal of data from the Census and from other data-disseminating agencies. Some data from past censuses has been lost as reel-to-reel tape quality has deteriorated. In the future more such data will be available on CD-ROM products.
Within OSPL, http://www.ospl.state.nc.us/, are the State Data Center, the Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (CGIA), the North Carolina Geodetic Survey (NCGS), and the Office of the State Demographer. NC GILS, http://www.ncgils.state.nc.us, which provides an inventory/catalog of government information data sources, also is located in OSPL.
CGIA, http://www.cgia.state.nc.us/, is the lead agency for GIS within state government. Its services are fee-based. The NCGS, http://www.ncgs.state.nc.us/, applies "state-of-the-art methods of precise positioning and advanced geodetic techniques to establish and maintain the official survey base of the state of North Carolina and to support mapping, boundary determination, property delineation, infrastructure development, resource evaluation surveys and scientific applications." The State Demographer, http://www.ospl.state.nc.us/demog/, "prepares annual population estimates for all North Carolina municipalities," and "prepares county and state population estimates and projections by age, race, and sex."
The State Data Center, http://sdc.state.nc.us/, is more familiar than the other divisions of OSPL. Its web site contains data, drawn directly or indirectly, from the LINC (Log Into North Carolina) database. LINC is a rich source with 900 time series from state and federal sources. It's now available on an IBM mainframe computer.
A goal of OSPL is to make the LINC data web accessible, composed on the fly, and driven from a central database. A new web environment for LINC data would capture data about North Carolina and her component units with a consistent user interface, and allow users to extract needed data from a central database. At present, some of the data pages on the State Data Center web site are static LINC reports.
The new LINC statistical database, under development, will be composed of dynamically generated web pages. Printing from the new interface may still be a problem since the OSPL computer will have no control over remote browsers' fonts, page size, or orientation. The agency will develop several views of the data. Importing data into spreadsheet programs may be the most useful data presentation method. As of mid-May, Harrison is handing off to Bob Coates the specifics of putting LINC data onto the web.
Mark Thomas from Duke University completed the day's session with his talk about North Carolina State Information on the Web.
In the past, state agency publications all too often were hard to obtain, frequently treated as ephemeral, uncataloged and relegated to dusty pamphlet boxes in a dark back corner of the documents collection. The advent of the Internet has had a dramatic impact in getting state information out to the public as more and more agencies use the World Wide Web as their principal method of information dissemination.
For reference and general information, one of the best places to begin searching is the official North Carolina state home page, http://www.ncgov.com, which links to lists of agency, legislative, and judicial branch sites as well as to other categories of state information. The General Assembly main page, http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/, has links to the House, the Senate, online Statutes, recent bill information, and district geography, while recent North Carolina Supreme Court Decisions are listed chronologically at http://www.ncinsider.com/supreme/supco.html. If you need a phone number, address, or E-mail of a person at a state office in central Raleigh, try the North Carolina State Capitol Area Telephone Directory, http://www.state.nc.us/phone/. Don't overlook NC state government sections in web indexes such as Yahoo, http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S_ States/North_Carolina/Government/. Other good starting points are the NCINFO site from the Institute of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill, http://ncinfo.iog.unc.edu/ and the NC Periodicals Index, http://www.lib.ecu.edu/NCCollPCC/scope2.html, produced at East Carolina University.
If you're familiar with the subjects that each agency deals with, go to the list of agencies from the NC home page. Many agencies even post on the web electronic versions of familiar paper reports, such as “Crime in North Carolina” from the State Bureau of Investigation, http://sbi2.jus.state.nc.us/crp/public/Default.htm. Don't forget the voluminous amount of state level information hosted at federal agency sites. A great example is the online nature guide “Butterflies of North Carolina” from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Prairie Research Center, http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/nc/toc.htm.
I hope these examples of web pages will give an idea of the range of North Carolina information now available on the Internet. This information is based on a presentation at the NCLA Documents Section Spring Workshop, Raleigh, May 15, 1998. The handout from that workshop, as well as a more thorough discussion of state level information on the web, can be found at http://www.lib.duke.edu/pdmt/state/handout.htm, and many of the links are available from the North Carolina web page at Duke University's Public Documents and Maps Department, http://www.lib.duke.edu/pdmt/state/nc.htm. For more information, please contact Mark Thomas at markt@duke.edu (919-660-5853).
--Jack McGeachy, NCSU, Secretary/Treasurer, Documents Section
May 15, 1998
Profiles
North Carolina Profiles, U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/datamap/www/37.html
County Profiles from EDIS, EDIS Unit, MIS Section, N.C. Dept. of Commerce, http://cmedis.commerce.state.nc.us/countyprofiles
LINC County Profiles, Office of State Planning, Office of the Governor (North Carolina), http://www.ospl.state.nc.us/sdn/cntyindx.html
General
Census Bureau Home Page, http://www.census.gov/
County and City Data Book, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Dept. of Commerce (U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Washington, DC, 20402 - 202-512-1806)(issued every five or six years) or online at: County and City Data Books (1988, 1994), http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/ccdb/
HPI County Infosystem, The Harden Political InfoSystem, http://www.com/hpi/us50/ctyindex.html
Government Information Sharing Project, Oregon State University, http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/index.html
Social Sciences Data Center Interactive Data Resources, U. of Virginia, http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/active_data/index.html
Statistical Resources on the Web, U. of Michigan Documents Center, http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
State Data Center, Office of State Planning, Office of the Governor (North Carolina), http://sdc.state.nc.us
Agriculture
N.C. Agricultural Statistics - County Estimates, N.C. Dept. of Agriculture, http://www.agr.state.nc.us/stats/cnty_est/cnty_est.htm
Crime/Corrections
Correction Statistics County by County, N.C. Department of Correction, http://www.doc.state.nc.us/r&p/abstract/FY19596/FILE41.HTM
Crime in North Carolina (Uniform Crime Report), Div. Of Criminal Information (and State Bureau of Investigation), N.C. Department of Justice, 407 N. Blount St., Raleigh, N.C. 27601-1073 (919-733-3171)(annual) or online at http://sbi2.jus.state.nc.us/crp/public/Default.htm
N.C. Dept. of Correction Annual Statistical Report (issued separately for Fiscal Year and Calendar Year), Office of Research and Planning, N.C. Dept. of Correction, 2143 West Jones St., Raleigh, N.C. 27603-1337 (919-716-3080; Fax 919-716-3990)
Economics
North Carolina Economic trends, N.C. Department of Commerce, http://www.commerce.state.nc.us/econtrends
Regional Economic Information System: 1969-1995, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Dept. of Commerce via Government Information Sharing Project, Oregon State University, http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/reis-stateis.html
North Carolina Manufacturers Directory, Harris Infosource International (in cooperation with the N.C. Dept. of Commerce), 2057 Aurora Rd., Twinsburg, Ohio 44087 (800-888-5900; Fax 216-425-7150)(annual)
Education
Public Schools of North Carolina Statistical Profile, State Board of Education & NC Dept. of Public Instruction, 301 N. Wilmington St., Raleigh, NC 27601-2825 (919-715-1018; Fax 919-715-1021)(annual)
School District Data Book Profiles: 1898-1990, Government Information Sharing Project, Oregon State U., http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/sddb-stateis.html
Statistical Research and Data Center, N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction, http://www.ofps.dpi.state.nc.us/OFPS/sb/sr/srdc.htm
Elections
North Carolina Manual, N.C. Dept. of the Secretary of State, Legislative Office Bldg., 300 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC 27603-5909 (919-733-4098; Fax 919-733-4092)(issued every two years)
Voter Registration in North Carolina, North Carolina State Board of Elections, http://www.state.nc.us/SBOE/voterreg.htm
Employment
Civilian Labor Force Estimates (Labor Force/Employment/Unemployment Rates) for NC Counties (Monthly 1990 - 1998), Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, N.C. Dept. of Commerce, http://eslmi98.esc.state.nc.us/ThematicLAUS/clfasp/CLFaasy.asp
Civilian Labor Force Estimates (Labor Force/Employment/Unemployment Rates) for NC Metropolitan Statistical Areas (Monthly Estimates 1990 - 1998), Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, N.C. Dept. of Commerce, http://eslmi98.esc.state.nc.us/ThematicLAUS/clfasp/CLFaasy.asp
Current Labor Force (Labor Force/Employment/Unemployment Rates for N.C. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Counties, Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, N.C. Dept. of Commerce, http://www.esc.state.nc.us/news/CTYRates.html
Map of County Unemployment Rates, Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, N.C. Dept. of Commerce, http://eslmi98.esc.state.nc.us/ThematicLAUS/MapSelect.asp
Government
Directory of North Carolina County Officials, North Carolina Association of County Officials, P.O. Box 1488, Raleigh, NC 27602-1488 (919-715-2893; Fax 919-733-1065)(annual)
Directory of North Carolina Municipal Officials and Buyer's Guide, North Carolina League of Municipalities, P.O. Box 3069, Raleigh, NC 27602 (919-715-4000; Fax 919-733-9519)(or to order via the internet: http://www.nclm.org/Pubs/pub-link.html) (annual)
Directory of State and County Officials of North Carolina,
N.C. Dept. of the Secretary of State, Legislative Office Bldg., 300 N.
Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC 27603-5909 (919-733-4098; Fax 919-733-4092) or
online at http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/pubsweb/catalog/catalog3.htm
(annual).
Health
North Carolina Health Statistics Pocket Guide, State Center for Health Statistics, N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 222 N. Dawson St., P.O. Box 29538, Raleigh, N.C. 27626-0538 (919-733-4728; Fax 919-733-8485)
North Carolina Vital Statistics, Volumes 1 & 2, State Center for Health Statistics (and Div. Of Epidemiology), N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 222 N. Dawson St., P.O. Box 29538, Raleigh, N.C. 27626-0538 (919-733-4728; Fax 919-733-8485)
State Center for Health Statistics Reports and Publications (Still in the process of posting), State Center for Health Statistics, N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services, http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS
History/Development
The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943, David Leroy Corbitt (5th printing, 1996); Map Showing the Formation of North Carolina Counties, Drawn by L. Polk Denmark and used in The Formation of the North Carolina Counties by D. L. Corbitt. (Reprinted, 1984); Chart Showing the Origin of North Carolina Counties, D. L. Corbitt and L. Polk Denmark. (5th printing, 1970) - all from Historical Publications Section of the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601-2807 (919-733-7442; Fax: 919-733-1439)
History of North Carolina Counties, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/Census/nccounty.htm
North Carolina Encyclopedia, State Library of North Carolina, http://prioris.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/cover.htm
Judicial and Law Enforcement Divisions
North Carolina Courts Directory, Policy and Communication Div., Administrative Office of the Courts, P.O. Box 2448, Raleigh, NC 27602 (919-733-7107; Fax 919-715-5779)(annual)
North Carolina Sheriffs' Association Directory, North Carolina Sheriffs' Association, P.O. Box 2717, Raleigh, NC 27602-2717 (919-783-8899; Fax 919-783-5272)(annual)
Land Area
County Rankings Profiles, Office of State Planning, Office of the Governor (of North Carolina), http://www.ospl.state.nc.us/osplbin/crpindex.cgi
Land Area/Population Density for States, Counties, Metropolitan Areas, and Places, U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/density.html
Legislative Representation
Legislative/Congressional Representation by County, N.C. General Assembly, http://www.ncgov.com/asp/subpages/zip_input.asp
North Carolina General Assembly Senate and House Rules-Directories, Offices of the Senate and House Principal Clerks, N.C. General Assembly, Legislative Bldg., 16 West Jones St., Raleigh, NC 27603-5925 (Senate: 919-733-7761 & House: 919-733-7760)
Maps
North Carolina Profiles, U.S. Census Bureau, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/north_carolina_map.html
North Carolina Dept. of Transportation Maps, http://www.ncdot.org/planning/statewide/gis/GIS_mapping.html
Organizations
National Association of Counties, 440 First St., NW, Washington, DC 20001-2080 (292-393-6226; Fax 202-393-2630), http://www.naco.org/
National League of Cities, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004 (292-626-3000; Fax 202-626-3043), http://www.nlc.org/
North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, P.O. Box
1488, Raleigh, NC 27602-1488 (919-715-2893; Fax 919-733-1065), http://www.ncacc.org
North Carolina League of Municipalities, P.O. Box 3069, Raleigh, NC 27602 (919-715-4000; Fax 919-733-9519), http://www.nclm.org
Population
Census of Population - General Population Characteristics (North Carolina) CP-1-35 & Social and Economic Characteristics (North Carolina) CP-2-35, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Dept. of Commerce (U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Washington, DC 20402 - 202-512-1806)(issued every ten years)
Population and Housing Unit Estimates (Including Counties, Cities/Places, and Metropolitan Areas), U.S. Census Bureau, http://eire.census.gov/popest/estimates.php
State Demographics, Office of State Planning, Office of the Governor (North Carolina), http://www.ospl.state.nc.us/demog/
Revenue/Taxation
County Tax Surveys - 1994-95 thru 1997-98, North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, http://ncinfo.iog.unc.edu/NCACC/srvycnty/
Local Government Commission (State and Local Government Finance), NC Dept. of State Treasurer, 325 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC 27603-1388 (919-733-3064; Fax 919-715-0229)
Municipal Property Tax Rates (From Surveys) - 1992-93 thru 1997-98, North Carolina League of Municipalities, http://ncinfo.iog.unc.edu/NCLM/General/Reports/TaxRate/tax-rate.html
Tax Research Division, North Carolina Dept. of Revenue, P.O. Box 25000, Raleigh, NC 27640 (919-733-4548; Fax 919-715-3793)
--Alex Hess, Institute of Government
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Volume 25 Number 2
Fall 1998
Editor: Marilyn Schuster
Production: Pat Langelier
The Docket (ISSN 0198-1048) is the official newsletter of
the Documents Section of the North Carolina Library Association. Published
twice a year in February and August, the deadline for contributions is the
first day of the month of publication. Permission to copy is granted provided
appropriate credit is given to The Docket and individual authors.
Current contact information and back issues of The Docket are available at: http://www.nclaonline.org/grs/pub.html. [2/24/05]
Address all editorial correspondence to Marilyn Schuster, Atkins Library, UNC-Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223-0001; 704/547-3983; fax 704/547-2232; email: mbschust@email.uncc.edu.