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Carolina Stories

LessonPlans

3 min read

Pilot program brings West Africa to local classrooms

A person writing a letter.

4 min read

The lost art of letters

A man plays a cigar box fiddle.

2 min read

Archiving African American folklife

Waleed Ziad stands outside holding a laptop next to a woman who is setting up a video camera.

2 min read

Cataloging with the local community

Cayla Colclasure works with historical documents.

2 min read

Tracking history

Camara sits in front of digitized Pulaar manuscripts.

2 min read

Preserving Pulaar poetry

Librarian holding the Highlander video tape.

7 min read

Fire Fighters

Diamond Holloman, a PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill, listens to Malinda Maynor Lowery, co-director of Southern futures at a meeting in a community center in Robeson County.

2 min read

The Human Side of Research

Engraving from the Florence Fearrington collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries

4 min read

The gift of wonder: Rare book collection coming to Carolina

Vance L. Horner II and Shaida Jarrahi Horner smile for a photo with library bookshelves in the background.

1 min read

Extending beyond library walls

Malik Jabati smiles in front of the Old Well.

3 min read

Finding an intellectually stimulating environment

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2 min read

Documenting The South