NC State Publications Clearinghouse update

              The Session Laws and
Resolutions, an important series
of historical North Carolina
state publications, have been
digitized and are now available
in the online North Carolina
State Government Publications
Collection, along with other
important series such as the
Public Documents, the Biennial
Reports of the State’s Prison,
and the Annual Reports of the
Adjutant- Generals. The
digitization of historical
publications, funded by the
Ensuring Democracy Through
Digital Access Grant, is
bringing North Carolina history
into the 21st century.
The Session Laws collects all
laws passed by the General
Assembly during a particular
legislative session. Each
volume includes a subject index
to all the laws at the back of the
volume.
Though cataloged under their
various titles, searching the
Collection with the phrase
“ session laws” will bring up all
the digitized editions.
Currently, the Collection
contains the Session Laws from
1817 to 1891. Each edition has
its own metadata record, rather
than all years being grouped
under a single serial metadata
record.
The remaining Session Laws
will be scanned over the next
couple months, with uploading
of these Laws into the
Collection being done over the
following months. The most
recent editions of the compiled
Session Laws are available on
the website of the NC General
Assembly.
Also newly digitized are the
North Carolina State Fair
Premium Lists going back to
1869. These are treasure troves
of information on the beloved
North Carolina State Fair.
Digitized Session Laws now
available
NC State Publications
Clearinghouse Update March/ April, 2011
New collection- level MARC
records for pamphlets
Eve Neville, Documents
Cataloger, created the first six
“ collection- level” MARC
records for groups of brochures
or other ephemera produced by
a state agency.
For each group, one collection-level
record is created. The title
of each item within the group is
listed in the 505 table of
contents field. The 520 field
holds a short summary of the
contents of the group. Instead
of cataloging each item
separately, they will be
cataloged together in a
collection- level record.
For example, the ephemeral
Quick Guides of the NC State
Board of Elections are grouped
together and cataloged with a
single collection- level record.
The 505 field holds the titles of
the individual Quick Guides.
The 520 field holds the
summary “ A collection of the
NC State Board of Elections
information pamphlets about
voting.”
Pamphlets published by the NC
Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services describing the
state’s farmers markets are
cataloged under the title [ North
Carolina farmers markets]. Each
is listed in the 505 field: State
farmers market, WNC farmers
market, Piedmont Triad farmers
market, etc.
This will be done for materials that
are ephemeral, but contain
interesting and important content.
As new pamphlets in a collection
are received at the Clearinghouse,
their titles will be added to the 505
field for the collection- level
MARC record.
Contact Eve Neville at
eve. neville@ ncdcr. gov with
questions about the cataloging of
NC state publications.
Alerts with the Publications Collection’s RSS feed
The NC State Government
Publications Collection
includes an RSS ( Really Simple
Syndication) feed. Use it with
your preferred RSS reader to
learn when new digital
publications are added.
On the home page of the
Collection is the statement
“ Find new publications added
to the collection with our RSS
feed” with an embedded link.
Click on this link to read a list
of the most recently added state
publications.
To see the RSS feed in your
preferred reader, click on the
option to “ Subscribe to this
feed” under the “ Manage
Favorites” button in Internet
Explorer. You can then read
your feed in the “ Favorites
Center” of Internet Explorer.
To add the state publications
RSS feed to another reader,
copy the URL of the RSS feed
page and paste it in the
dialogue box that appears when
“ Add a subscription” is chosen.
Then, click the “ Add” button. The
titles of newly added state
publications will appear.
Be aware, though, that the location
of the RSS feed link will change
when the new website debuts in
early May.
Page 2 NC State Publications Clearinghouse Update
The authority heading for the NC
Occupational Safety and Health Division,
part of the NC Department of Labor, has
been changed by the Library of Congress,
alerts Vicki Brueck, Cataloger/ Metadata
Specialist, Resource Management Services
Branch. Catalogers will need to change their
records to match this change and download
the new authority files.
The old heading ( LCCN: n 87838356) was
“ North Carolina. Division of Occupational
Safety and Health.” The new heading
( LCCN: n 2010082714) is “ North Carolina.
Occupational Safety and Health Division.”
According to Vicki, “ The Library of
Congress created the new heading just prior
to Christmas. It seemed like such a minor
change, moving Division from first to last
element. I emailed the Assistant Deputy
Commissioner of the Division, and he
confirmed that the name changed in 2005 by
order of the NC General Assembly.”
Since the name change occurred in 2005, all
State Center for Health Statistics publications in the North Carolina
State Government Publications Collection
broad racial and ethnic populations in North Carolina, the
supporting data, and a letter grade that ranks the health status of
those groups. Grades are given in areas such as general social and
economic well- being, maternal and infant health, adult health,
communicable diseases, violence and injury, child and adolescent
health, and risk behavior and health promotion.
Further information on the health of specific ethnic groups in North
Carolina can be found in the series North Carolina Minority Health
Facts. Volumes are published that focus on African Americans,
American Indians, and Hispanics/ Latinos. The purpose of these
reports is to present basic health facts about the group about
mortality, chronic diseases, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases,
health risk factors, access to health care, quality of life, maternal
and infant health, and child and adolescent health. Search the digital
versions in the online State Government Publications Collection!
Many digital publications of the North Carolina State Center for
Health Statistics are in the online North Carolina State Government
Publications Collection. Ann Farmer of the State Center for Health
Statistics recommends the following publications as especially useful
for obtaining North Carolina health information.
The biennial North Carolina Health Statistics Pocket Guide can be
used to quickly find demographic data on North Carolina’s citizens;
morbidity and mortality data; numbers on available healthcare
resources; birth rates; and data on pregnancy outcomes.
Another important publication is the biennial Health Profile of North
Carolinians. The report’s objective is to help state legislators and
health agencies identify trends in death, illness, and injury, as well as
the factors that may lead to these events, with this information
facilitating the targeting of health programs to improve the health
status of North Carolinians. Statistics cover life expectancy, chronic
diseases; infant, child, and adolescent health; mental health and
substance abuse; injury and violence; communicable diseases;
minority health and health disparities; health risk factors; and health
care access.
Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in North Carolina: Report
Card, which is published triennially, shows health indicators for
New authority heading for NC Occupational
Safety and Health Division
publications published before 2005 should
use “ Division of Occupational Safety and
Health” and everything in 2006 and after
should use “ Occupational Safety and Health
Division.” Vicki recommends that, for
publications published in 2005, use the form
that appears on the publication.
“ There will be some more of these bureau-level
changes to come in the future,” predicts
Vicki, so be ready to change more records!
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New and Notable State Publications
Added to the Digital Repository:
  The Signal: The Volunteer
Newsletter of the NC State Capitol
  Envisioning the Future of NC's
African American Heritage
  State Highway Patrol Manual
  NC FY2011- 12 Budget Gap
  Comprehensive Transportation
Plans
  Graduate Teacher Education
Programs 09- 10
  Natural Area Inventories
  NC Arts Council Strategic Plan
2009- 2013
  Carolina Comments
  Handbook for Family and Friends
of Inmates
  Guidelines for Mountain Stream
Relocations in NC
  2010 NC Financial Literacy Guide
  Legislative Commission on Global
Climate Change— Final Report to
General Assembly
Change coming —
New NC State Publications Collection
website to be live by May 1st!