NC State Publications Clearinghouse update

              Winter 2014
Over the past year we’ve had problems with our State Government Publications digital collection replicating compound objects (serials). Because of this, adding issues to the already existing serial titles was on hold. You may have noticed that serials in our digital collection have not shown any new issues during the past year.
Throughout 2013, we had several small CONTENTdm upgrades and a large upgrade to CONTENTdm 6.6.1 at the end of the year. All of these upgrades were in preparation for the final migration of our digital collections in mid-January 2014.
As of today, OCLC has migrated our CONTENTdm search index data to the new FIND Farm platform. This migration rebuilt searching, which means the search respond time is much faster and searches are seamless across the collections. Also, the serials replication problem was fixed.
Everything looks to be running normally and no replication has been found since the migration, so we have started adding new serial issues to the existing records.
It will take us some time to catch up and get all our serials up to date. Stay tuned!
The State Documents Clearinghouse has recently completed a project updating links in the MOSAIC collection. MOSAIC is one of our digital collections that provides access to state and local government information resources/collections, including maps, publications, records and historical documents that are made available on the Internet by libraries, historical societies, government agencies, and corporate offices throughout North Carolina. If you have used MOSAIC over the past year, you may have noticed broken links throughout the collection. County governments and government agencies update and change their websites frequently, which causes URLs posted on external sites (such as in the MOSAIC collection) to break, rendering them unusable. Due to shortage in staff, MOSAIC had not been updated in about two years. The Clearinghouse updated approximately 160 links throughout the collection and will be continuing the project by updating, adding and deleting links as necessary on a regular basis.
OSAIC
Update
Up and running!
Two significant NC government serials are being digitized and add-ed to the collection of digital North Carolina state government publica-tions. “Wildlife in North Caroli-na” and “Bulletin / North Carolina Museum of Art. “ Wildlife” was first published in 1947 and contin-ues through the present. “Bulletin” was published from 1957-1980 and 1990-1997. Look for these serials to be available in the digital collec-tion later this year.
Coming soon to ncgovdocs.org... We are proud to announce that our very own state publications clearinghouse liaison, Denise Jones is the new 2014 president-elect for the North Carolina chapter of SLA (Special Librar-ies Association). The North Carolina chapter includes members in corporate libraries, aca-demic libraries, and federal and state agency libraries. Denise will be planning educational programs and networking events for the chapter for 2014. Contact Denise at den-ise.jones@ncdcr.gov if you are interested in learning more about the North Carolina chapter or the NC/SLA events planned for 2014.
Members of the Resource Management Services Branch have identified the oversized elements of the State Documents collection and relocated them to their own section of the physical collection: the new State Publications Oversize collection. In an effort to highlight and further promote this segment of the collection, the oversized items – many of them older publications – had their holdings reviewed and updated, and were assigned their own location code to make them more readily accessible. The newly designated section, outfitted to handle such large, heavy, and/or oddly-shaped documents, also serves to better preserve and retain the materials that the State Documents collection contains now and those that will be collected in the future. Items in the Oversize collection include maps, posters, and broadsheet-style newsletters from state agencies and universities, among other publications of this nature. Check out our oversized publications at: http://catalog.ncdcr.gov/, or in person at the Government and Heritage Library.
Overjoyed for oversize!
NCSLA
The new “Transportation in North Carolina – Highways” research guide is now available on http://ncgovdocs.org/. The research guide has information and links to some major sources of North Carolina highway and traffic information and covers years 1915 to the present, linking to both digital resources and catalog records for resources in the print collection. Some of the publications featured are annual reports of traffic accidents including driver and pedestrian data, vehicle data, and crash data by county. Comprehensive Transportation Plans and their predecessor, Thoroughfare Plans are explained and have links to print and digital. Also interesting are the “North Carolina Transportation Maps” – digitized NC highway maps that date back to 1916. You can see the transportation research guide at http://ncgovdocs.org/guides/transportationhighways.htm
New research guide available
Noteworthy new state publications:
 Be smart. Be ready. : a family planning program [electronic resource] http://worldcat.org/oclc/869457763/viewonline
 From farm to fork : a guide to building North Carolina’s sustainable local food economy [electronic resource] http://worldcat.org/oclc/639293104/viewonline
 Reporting child abuse and neglect in North Carolina [print resource] OCLC: 868817255
 Policies governing services for children with disabilities. [electronic resource] http://worldcat.org/oclc/865544224/viewonline
 North Carolina : The official 2014 travel guide [print resource] OCLC:44441958