Great news for North Carolina local history researchers: no longer will they have to search across multiple websites and platforms for access to the state's digital historical resources. According to their press release, a joint program between the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, NC Live, and the State Library of North Carolina, unites a variety of online collections under a single search box.
The project, called NC ECHO, allows users to search "across thousands of digitized and “born-digital” historic materials, including a wide variety of books, photographs, maps, family histories, state documents, newspapers and other materials from cultural heritage institutions around North Carolina."
Previously, researchers were required to search these collections individually. Institutions whose resources are searched by NC ECHO include:
- East Carolina University
- Johnson C. Smith University
- New Hanover County Public Library
- North Carolina Digital Collections, Department of Cultural Resources
- North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Western Carolina University
Searching NC ECHO
NC ECHO allows users to search by keyword
or by county
Results are displayed in an easy to navigate list. Researchers may limit results by collection or contributor using the left-hand sidebar
.
NC ECHO, which is free and open to everyone, can be accessed at: http://ncecho.org/
Try it out, and tell us what you think!
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