North Carolina Collection

Explore industries and careers, plan your education, and research best practices for résumés, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. The database includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.

Job openings: NC state government jobs, America's Job Bank, and other job search resources.

Instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. ReferenceUSA makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more.

Profiles for hundreds of occupations including sections like What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projections for the 2010-20 decade.

Downloadable versions of current NC individual and corporate income, franchise, sales, and withholding tax forms

Resources about diseases, conditions, and other special topics, with health immunizations and recommendations for travelers worldwide.

Bienvenido a healthfinder.gov, un sitio web del gobierno donde encontrará información y herramientas para ayudarlo a usted y a sus seres queridos a mantenerse saludables.

Up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy. Includes information on HIV in other areas of the world.

Patient education on bloodwork, urine, and more. Lab test results provided in part by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.

Health education to patients and the general public on topics such as autism, influenza, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, smoking, depression, and more.

Information about common diseases and conditions, health promotion and wellness, drugs info, medical dictionaries and more.

Guide to prescription and over-the-counter medications, herbs, and supplements.

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

Information on health precautions, links to local health departments, how to get birth certificates, and more.

Resource on women's health topics: pregnancy, body image, HIV/AIDS, girls' health, heart health, menopause, mental health, quitting smoking, and domestic violence.

Health-related research and reports and a collection of health statistics.

Programs and resources for people starting a new business or moving a business to North Carolina

A database of full-text magazines, journals, and reference books, as well as photo, map, and flag files dating back to 1917. Titles include popular magazines like Consumer Reports, Car and Driver, Country Living, Elle, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, and Popular Mechanics alongside an expansive list of scholarly and trade publications.

Information about the state, its history, people, government, and educational institutions.

Provides state, county, and municipal population estimates and projections by year, age, race, and sex.

Personal income and population summary estimates, detailed county annual tables of income and employment as well as wage and salary summary estimates.

Includes population, economic, and income data as well as county profiles and rankings.

Access to primary source information, including birth and death records, ship logs, and cemetery records.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) provides access to millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Find primary sources to use in school projects, academic research, family history research, and more.

Treasury of American genealogical sources: unique primary sources, local and family histories, and how to find ancestors. Includes historical census, PERSI, Revolutionary War records, and more.

View the Jackson County Journal (1923-1942) or the Sylva Herald and Ruralite (1943-1950)!
3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers.

Life Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. Each issue visually and powerfully depicted national and international events and topical stories, providing intimate views of real people and their real life situations.

Information about the state, its history, people, government, and educational institutions.

Women's writings from the Colonial period to 1950. Includes writings by Abigail Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Dorothea L. Dix, Julia Ward Howe, and more.

Reports on issues shaping our world, with in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.

The Uniform Crime Reporting Program collects data on the age, race, and sex of persons arrested for all crimes except traffic violations.

Searchable listing of NC government employees

Current DMV driver's manual in English and en Español.

North Carolina Bill and Laws.

Lists services for citizens, businesses, and state employees of North Carolina.

Information about the state, its history, people, government, and educational institutions.

Informational brochures and pamphlets, reports (annual, biennial, statistical), serials (newsletters, checklists, magazines), handbooks, studies, and other information resources published by state government.

Articles plus searchable charts, figures, graphs, maps, photographs and tables representing all major environment topics, including outdoor recreation and planning.

Provides statistical information in table, map, and graph format on farm animals, crops, cash receipts, and weather.

Premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, field guides, encyclopedias of natural history, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas. Get ideas for research papers!

One of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content plus additional subject-based material.

Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students, SIRS Discoverer offers articles, nonfiction books, images, activities, and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability.

This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

Explore the history and culture of North Carolina through original materials from cultural heritage repositories across the state.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) provides access to millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Find primary sources to use in school projects, academic research, family history research, and more.

The North Carolina Periodicals Index is produced by the staff of the Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. The index provides access to articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics, including the arts, business, culture, history, law, natural resources, public policy, tourism, and travel.

Explore works of art that are relevant across subjects and grade levels. Use lesson plans designed by teachers to easily integrate art into your classroom curriculum. Learn through rich multimedia resources such as video interviews with artists or arts integration quick tips to help spark ideas. Discover upcoming events and learning opportunities happening at the NCMA.

A downloadable e-book collection with books contributed from libraries across the country. Create a username and password to borrow up to 5 books at a time. For Trades, includes Time Life books.

Hoopla is a digital media service offered by the NC LIVE library that allows you to borrow and listen to audiobooks with no waiting. Titles can be streamed immediately or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment later.

Special Instructions:
1. Click Sign Up
2. Type in NC LIVE as your library, click on NC LIVE in results
3. Add “NC” after your library card number when you register (EX:23242000123456NC)
4. Browse and borrow from hoopla’s Flex collection!