State Library of North Carolina
Statewide library and genealogy services.
Societies, libraries & archives
Wake County Public Libraries — Olivia Raney Local History
Capital-area local history and genealogy collections.
Pack Memorial Library / Buncombe County Public Libraries
Mountain region local history resources in Asheville.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room and county library system.
Forsyth County Public Library
Public library system serving Forsyth County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Greensboro Public Library
North Carolina Collection and local history services.
New Hanover County Public Library
Cape Fear local history and genealogy collections.
Cumberland County Public Library
Public library system serving Cumberland County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Durham County Library
Official public library system serving Durham County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Orange County Public Library
Hillsborough seat research support.
Craven-Pamlico-Carteret Regional Library
Coastal plain / New Bern colonial capital research support.
Alamance County Public Libraries
Official public library system serving Alamance County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Alexander County Library
Official public library system serving Alexander County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Alleghany County Public Library
Official public library system serving Alleghany County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Anson County Library
Official public library system serving Anson County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Appalachian Regional Library — Ashe County
Public library system serving Ashe County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Avery County Library
Official public library system serving Avery County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Beaufort County Library / BHPL system
Official public library system serving Beaufort County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Albemarle Regional Library — Bertie
Official public library system serving Bertie County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Bladen County Public Library
Official public library system serving Bladen County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Brunswick County Public Library
Public library system serving Brunswick County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Buncombe County Public Libraries
Public library system serving Buncombe County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Burke County Public Library
Official public library system serving Burke County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Cabarrus County Public Library
Public library system serving Cabarrus County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Caldwell County Public Library
Official public library system serving Caldwell County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
East Albemarle Regional Library / Camden
Official public library system serving Camden County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Carteret County Public Library
Official public library system serving Carteret County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Caswell County Public Library
Official public library system serving Caswell County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Catawba County Library
Official public library system serving Catawba County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Chatham County Public Library
Public library system serving Chatham County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Nantahala Regional Library / Cherokee County
Official public library system serving Cherokee County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library / Edenton
Official public library system serving Chowan County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Nantahala Regional Library / Clay County
Official public library system serving Clay County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Cleveland County Public Library
Public library system serving Cleveland County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Columbus County Public Library
Official public library system serving Columbus County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Craven-Pamlico Regional Library
Official public library system serving Craven County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
East Albemarle Regional Library / Currituck
Official public library system serving Currituck County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Dare County Library
Official public library system serving Dare County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Davidson County Public Library
Public library system serving Davidson County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Davie County Public Library
Public library system serving Davie County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Duplin County Library
Official public library system serving Duplin County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Edgecombe County Memorial Library
Official public library system serving Edgecombe County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Franklin County Library
Official public library system serving Franklin County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Gaston County Public Library
Public library system serving Gaston County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Albemarle Regional Library — Gates
Official public library system serving Gates County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Nantahala Regional Library / Graham County
Official public library system serving Graham County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Granville County Library System
Official public library system serving Granville County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Neuse Regional Library / Greene County
Official public library system serving Greene County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Guilford County Public Library
Public library system serving Guilford County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Halifax County Library
Official public library system serving Halifax County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Harnett County Public Library
Public library system serving Harnett County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Haywood County Public Library
Official public library system serving Haywood County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Henderson County Public Library
Public library system serving Henderson County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Albemarle Regional Library — Hertford / Ahoskie
Official public library system serving Hertford County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Hoke County Public Library
Official public library system serving Hoke County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Hyde County Public Library / Mattamuskeet
Official public library system serving Hyde County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Iredell County Public Library
Official public library system serving Iredell County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Fontana Regional Library / Jackson County
Official public library system serving Jackson County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Johnston County Public Library System
Official public library system serving Johnston County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Craven-Pamlico-Carteret / Jones County Library
Official public library system serving Jones County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Lee County Library
Official public library system serving Lee County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Neuse Regional Library / Kinston-Lenoir
Official public library system serving Lenoir County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Lincoln County Public Library
Public library system serving Lincoln County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Fontana Regional Library / Macon County
Official public library system serving Macon County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Madison County Public Library
Official public library system serving Madison County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Martin Memorial Library / Williamston
Official public library system serving Martin County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
McDowell County Public Library
Public library system serving McDowell County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Official public library system serving Mecklenburg County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library / Mitchell
Official public library system serving Mitchell County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Montgomery County Public Libraries
Official public library system serving Montgomery County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Moore County Library
Official public library system serving Moore County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Braswell Memorial Library / Rocky Mount & Nash
Official public library system serving Nash County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
New Hanover County Public Library
Public library system serving New Hanover County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Northampton Memorial Library
Official public library system serving Northampton County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Onslow County Public Library
Official public library system serving Onslow County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Orange County Public Library
Official public library system serving Orange County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Pamlico County Library
Official public library system serving Pamlico County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
East Albemarle Regional Library / Elizabeth City
Official public library system serving Pasquotank County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Pender County Public Library
Official public library system serving Pender County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Perquimans County Library
Official public library system serving Perquimans County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Person County Public Library
Official public library system serving Person County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Sheppard Memorial Library / Greenville-Pitt
Official public library system serving Pitt County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Polk County Public Library
Official public library system serving Polk County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Randolph County Public Library
Official public library system serving Randolph County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Richmond County Public Library
Official public library system serving Richmond County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Robeson County Public Library
Official public library system serving Robeson County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Rockingham County Public Library
Official public library system serving Rockingham County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Rowan County Public Library
Public library system serving Rowan County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Rutherford County Library
Official public library system serving Rutherford County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Sampson-Clinton Public Library
Official public library system serving Sampson County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Scotland County Memorial Library
Official public library system serving Scotland County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Stanly County Public Library
Public library system serving Stanly County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Northwestern Regional Library / Stokes
Official public library system serving Stokes County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Northwestern Regional Library / Surry
Official public library system serving Surry County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Fontana Regional Library / Bryson City
Official public library system serving Swain County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Transylvania County Public Library
Public library system serving Transylvania County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Tyrrell County Public Library
Official public library system serving Tyrrell County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Union County Public Library
Official public library system serving Union County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library / Henderson-Vance
Official public library system serving Vance County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Wake County Public Library
Public library system serving Wake County — local history and genealogy starting point.
Warren County Memorial Library
Official public library system serving Warren County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Pettigrew Regional Library / Washington County
Official public library system serving Washington County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Watauga County Public Library
Official public library system serving Watauga County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Wayne County Public Library
Official public library system serving Wayne County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Northwestern Regional Library / Wilkes
Official public library system serving Wilkes County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Wilson County Public Library
Official public library system serving Wilson County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Northwestern Regional Library / Yadkin
Official public library system serving Yadkin County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library / Yancey
Official public library system serving Yancey County — start here for local history rooms, newspapers, and community vertical files.