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North Carolina ECHO, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online, is the World Wide Web's doorway to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, and museums.
With North Carolina ECHO, you can:
- Search an online directory of the cultural repositories of the state.
- Explore North Carolina cultural repositories' Web-based finding aids and other holdings information.
- Search by subject across the Web resources created by the state's cultural institutions.
August 4 - 8, 2003
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
![]() The State Library of North Carolina and North Carolina ECHO are now accepting applications for North Carolina ECHO's Digitization Institute III, to be held at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on August 4-8, 2003. Participants receive a full scholarship to attend the weeklong workshop. The Institute will be a hands-on introduction to planning a digitization project, scanning primary source material following North Carolina ECHO's "Guidelines for Digitization," and creating of metadata for digital images. The full announcement for the Digitization Institute is available inMS Word format (104 kb) and Adobe PDF format (86 kb), and the application form is also available in MS Word format (369 kb) andAdobe PDF format (58 kb). |
March 10 - 14, 2003
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The North Carolina ECHO Digitization Institute II was held at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 10-14, 2003. Librarians from across North Carolina participated in this institute, which was designed to be a hands-on introduction to planning, scanning, and marking up digital projects to provide greater access to the materials held by the state's cultural institutions.
Click here to view photographs taken throughout the week.
NC ECHO participates in a digitization grant program that supports collaborative digitization projects among the state's libraries and partner cultural institutions and creates a more in-depth and wider assortment of online resources for the use of the public. Guidelines for the NC ECHO Grant Program are located at http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/lsta/lsta.htm.
Cultural Institutions whose funding needs are beyond the scope of the above described digitization grant program may find other potential sources of funding by clicking here.
NC ECHO's grant program has funded 7 exciting projects at institutions around the state this fiscal year. Descriptions of those projects are available in MS Word format and Adobe PDF format.
In 2001, NC ECHO's EZ LSTA Digitization Demonstration grant program funded 13 exciting projects at institutions around the state. Descriptions of past projects are available in MS Word format and Adobe PDF format.
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Projects Funded by NC ECHO
Focus NCSU Libraries North Carolina State University |
2003 | (632k) |
Independent Tribune Concord, NC |
8 Nov 2002 | (464k) |
Information and Library Science @ Carolina School of Information & Library Science UNC-Chapel Hill |
Fall 2002/ Winter 2003 |
(383k) |
The NC ECHO Web Portal includes institutions within the geographic boundaries of North Carolina that house special collections available to the public for research or by exhibit. Click here for links to institutions and online resources that fall outside this definition but can be of assistance in seeking information about North Carolina. |
North Carolina ECHO is part of the Access to Special Collections Project,
co-sponsored by Duke University Libraries and theState Library of North Carolina.
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