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Reference bookshelf, E-2: 21 titles as they stand on the shelf at OCPL, in call-number order. Traditional general reference books, still valuable as comprehensive, authoritative sources.

• Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography 2015

  A guide to print and online reference sources for family historians and the librarians who help them, edited by Mary K. Mannix, Fred Burchsted and Jo Bell Whitlatch. The genealogy part goes region by region, then covers heraldry, names, and African American, Hispanic, Jewish, Native American and Quaker research; the biography part surveys sources for each region of the world. ALA Editions, 2015; xiii, 372 pages with an index.

  Call number NC 016.929 GUIDE View in OCPL catalog →
• The American Census Handbook Kemp, Thomas Jay · 2001

  Thomas Jay Kemp's handbook to thousands of census indexes for the United States, in print and online, from federal schedules to state, county and town enumerations. The entries are arranged by census year, by place and by topic. Published by Scholarly Resources in 2001, 517 pages.

  Call number NC 016.929 KEM View in OCPL catalog →
• State Census Records Lainhart, Ann S. · 1992

  Ann S. Lainhart's guide to the censuses taken by individual states, telling what survives, where each set of returns is kept and what the enumerators wrote down. Coverage reaches as far as an 1879 count of the civilians of Sitka, Alaska, ordered by the post commander, Major John C. Tidball. Genealogical Publishing Company issued it in 1992; 116 pages with references.

  Call number NC 016.929 LAINHART View in OCPL catalog →
• Guide to Private Manuscript Collections in the North Carolina State Archives Cain, Barbara T. · 1981 Wider context

  Private papers in the North Carolina State Archives at Raleigh are described in this guide, compiled by Barbara T. Cain, working with Ellen Z. McGrew and Charles E. Morris. The third revised edition of 1981 covers 1,640 collections of private papers, 186 microfilmed collections of papers, diaries and account books, and 480 account books received through 1978, plus some additions made to mid-1979. 706 pages with an index.

  Call number NC 016.975 CAI View in OCPL catalog →
• Guide to County Records in the North Carolina State Archives North Carolina · 2009 Wider context

  The North Carolina State Archives' guide to the original and microfilmed county records in its care. This twelfth revised edition, issued in 2009 by the Office of Archives and History, is the first under the present title; earlier editions, going back at least to 1977, appeared as Section B: County Records of the Guide to Research Materials in the North Carolina State Archives. It runs to vi, 394 pages with a map and an index.

  Call number NC 016.975 NORTH View in OCPL catalog →
• Local History Reference Collections for Public Libraries Marquis, Kathy · 2015

  Kathy Marquis and Leslie Waggener's handbook for public libraries starting a local history reference collection, built mostly from what a library already owns plus commonly published sources. Chapters take up how such a collection differs from an archive, collection policy, audiences, partner organizations, preservation, reference service, outreach and online collections; appendices include a survey form, the RUSA guidelines and a policy template. ALA Editions, 2015, in the Guides for the Busy Librarian series; 146 pages.

  Call number NC 025.21 MARQUIS View in OCPL catalog →
• Helping Patrons Find Their Roots: A Genealogy Handbook for Librarians Schultz, Janice Lindgren · 2018

  A handbook for library staff who help patrons with family history, by Janice Lindgren Schultz. It moves from genealogy basics and the main kinds of records through published sources and advanced research, then turns to building a genealogy collection and training staff, so it can serve both to train newcomers and to manage a genealogy room. ALA Editions, 2018; 240 pages with bibliographies and an index.

  Call number NC 025.5 SCHULTZ View in OCPL catalog →
• Creating A Local History Archive at your Public Library Phillips, Faye · 2017

  Faye Phillips's manual for public libraries starting a local history archive. Chapters cover defining and building the archive, writing its collection development policy, acquiring materials and making them accessible, and caring for them, with an eye to how the internet has changed access to such collections. Published in 2017 by ALA Editions in its series of guides for the busy librarian; 161 pages, illustrated.

  Call number NC 026 PHILLIPS View in OCPL catalog →
• The History of Public Library Service in Durham, North Carolina 1897-1997 Harland-Jacobs, Jessica · 1998

  A centennial account of Durham's public libraries from 1897 to 1997 by Jessica Harland-Jacobs, covering the county library and the separate Durham Colored Library. The Durham County Library published the 56-page history, with illustrations and source notes, in 1998.

  Call number NC 027.475 HAR View in OCPL catalog →
• Stanford L. Warren Branch Library: 77 Years of Public Service Jones, Beverly Washington · 1990

  Durham's Stanford L. Warren Branch Library, which began as the Durham Colored Library and served the city's African American readers, in a history by Beverly Washington Jones covering seventy-seven years of service to 1990. Published that year by the Durham County Library; 134 pages with illustrations, portraits, notes and an index.

  Call number NC 027.475 JON View in OCPL catalog →
• The State Library and Library Development in North Carolina Mitchell, Thornton W. · 1983 Wider context

  The North Carolina State Library and the state's work to build libraries, including that of the North Carolina Library Commission, are traced by Thornton W. Mitchell. The State Library began in 1812 as a collection for the legislature; the commission, set up in 1909 to foster public libraries, merged with it in 1955. Published by the Division of State Library in 1983, with a foreword and epilogue by David N. McKay; 164 pages.

  Call number NC 027.575 MIT View in OCPL catalog →
• Libraries and Literature in North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century Weeks, Stephen Beauregard · 1896 Wider context

  First printed in the American Historical Association's annual report for 1895, Stephen B. Weeks's study of libraries and writing in eighteenth-century North Carolina fills pages 171 to 267 of that report and was issued separately by the Government Printing Office in 1896. It ends with a bibliography.

  Call number NC 027.575 WEE View in OCPL catalog →