Looking for NC Facts? Discover Award-Winning NCpedia

Congratulations -- NCpedia (http://ncpedia.org), managed by the Government & Heritage Library at the State Library of North Carolina, has won the 2011 Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library Services.

NCpedia expands on the State Library’s previous online resource, the eNCyclopedia, which contained about 60 pages of information about North Carolina. NCpedia now has well over 600 pages. Hosting and technical support is provided by North Carolina’s online library, NC LIVE. 

More information about NCpedia receiving this award is available at:

http://statelibrarync.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/ncpedia-wins-national-award/

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/online-encyclopedia-ncpedia-wins-2011-rusa-reference-award

Library Assistants Earn VGCC Scholarships

Congratulations to your present and former library assistants who received scholarships during the annual VGCC Scholarship Awards Ceremony held on February 23.  Recipients included Anne Pettit (Robert J. Turner Annual Scholarship), Rachel Pottern (James Madison "Jimmy" Joyner Memorial Scholarship), Jordan Scheno (Kerr Lake Board of Realtors Scholarship), and Randal Chandler (Vesta Fortson Manning Memorial Scholarship).  Library assistants provide invaluable support -- working with the LRC staff throughout the academic year processing new materials, shelving books, and assisting patrons.