Our Portfolio

• Completed Projects
• Projects and Programs in Progress

Completed Projects

• "First-Person Narratives of the American South"
  Made possible thanks to funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech.
• "Library of Southern Literature"
  Made possible thanks to funding from the Chancellor and the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• "North American Slave Narratives"
  Made possible thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865"
  Made possible thanks to funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
• "The Church in the Southern Black Community"
  Made possible thanks to funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech funding.
• "The North Carolina Experience"
  Made possible thanks to funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
• "North Carolinians and the Great War"
  Made possible thanks to an IMLS/LSTA grant administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
• "True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students at the University of North Carolina"
  Made possible thanks to an IMLS/LSTA grant administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
• "Oral Histories of the American South"
  Made possible thanks to funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
• "The First Century of the First State University"
• "The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations"
  Made possible thanks to the support of Howard Holsenbeck.
• "A Virtual Museum of University History"
  Created with the support of the Office of the Chancellor.
• "Going to the Show"
  Made possible by an IMLS/LSTA grant administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
• "Colonial and State Records of North Carolina"
  Made possible by an IMLS/LSTA grant administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
• "The Thomas E. Watson Papers Digital Collection"
  Made possible thanks to the support of the Watson-Brown Foundation.

Projects and Programs in Progress

• Scribe Digitization Program
  Established in December 2007, the Scribe Digitization Program is a partnership between the UNC University Library, and the Open Content Alliance. The Scribe (a high-speed scanner) and associated software applications developed by the Internet Archive facilitate high-volume conversion of bound materials to digital format. All books digitized by the UNC Library are hosted by the Internet Archive and are freely available online. As of June 2009, over 4,000 titles have been digitized as a part of this program.
• Southern Oral Histories Transcript Digitization
  This project entails digitizing approximately 2,600 oral history transcripts (about 95,000 8.5" x 11" typescript sheets) and includes Optical Character recognition (OCR) processing resulting in the creation of text-searchable PDF versions of oral history transcripts. Digital production and text processing for this project is done with the high-speed Fujitsu 5900C sheet-fed scanner and ABBYY FineReader OCR software. Digitized materials from this project will be used by the UNC Library's Southern Historical Collection in developing an online collection of oral history transcripts.
• "North Carolina Maps"
  Made possible by an IMLS/LSTA grant administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
• "Main Street, Carolina"
  Supported by the C. Felix Harvey Award to Advance Institutional Priorities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• "James Dusenbery Journal"
  Supported by private funding
• "Image to XML (img2xml)"
  NEH Digital Humanities Start-up grant
• "Driving through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway"
  Supported by a grant from the Library Services and Technology Act
• University Research Council Small Grant Program (for developing a new digital scholarly edition)