Historic North Carolina Newspaper Collection
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3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 North Carolina county newspapers.
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HistoryMakers Digital Archive
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The HistoryMakers is an oral history collection highlighting the accomplishments of individual African Americans and African-American-led groups and movements.
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Videos
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hoopla
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hoopla allows customers to instantly borrow e-books, comics, audiobooks, music, movies and television — with no holds, and no waiting! And there is no need to worry about late fees; hoopla features an automated service that returns your item once your time is up. Content can be streamed to computers, tablets or smartphones, and can be downloaded to mobile devices to allow for offline viewing any time.
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Getting Started
If you are a first time user, create a hoopla account by clicking on the link to the hoopla site and selecting "Sign Up Now." When creating your account, enter your email address, a password and your library card number. (Our Library does not use PIN numbers with hoopla.) If you are accessing with a tablet or smartphone, follow the instructions to download the free app compatible with your device. Enjoy!
Access the Collection
- Click the "Access Now" button below
- Download the hoopla app for Android or Apple.
- hoopla movies and tv can also be streamed on your Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Roku.
- Check out hoopla help to see if your device is compatiable.
Borrowing
- You can check out up to 6 items from hoopla each month. Unused borrows do not roll over. Your check out limit resets at the beginning of each calendar month.
- Audiobooks, ebooks, and comics will be checked out for 21 days from the time your borrow the content. Music is checked out for 7 days from the time you borrow the content. Movies and tv are checked out for 3 days from the time you borrow the content.
- Our hoopla content is always available so there is no need to place a hold! If you are not finished with your book or audiobook at the end of the check out period, borrow it again!
- Items are automatically returned at the end of the borrowing period. If you wish to return your item early, click the Return Now button located at the bottom of the title on the information page.
- PRO TIP: Out of borrows for the month but don't want to forget the title you would like to check out? Add it to your favorites! When logged in and viewing a title to save, click the heart icon. To view titles that you have saved, click on "My hoopla" at the top of the page, then click "Favorites".
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Only interested in seeing content for kids and families? Visit your "Settings" in the hoopla app or Account page on the hoopla site and flip the toggle to put hoopla into Kids Mode. Doing so replicates the experience kids might have in the children's section of the Library.
NEW Daily usage cap:
Though our e-content services are free to customers, some of these services incur a cost to the Library each time someone borrows an item. This is the case with hoopla. To ensure our ability to provide access to hoopla year-round without exceeding our annual budget, there is a daily limit on hoopla lending. If demand is especially high, and the limit is reached, you might receive a message when you try to borrow an item that says, "Our collective daily borrow limit set by your library has been reached and will reset at midnight. Please browse and add titles to favorites so you can easily access them after midnight." We recommend you try to borrow as early in the morning as possible, since the limit resets after midnight.
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Indie Author Project
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Indie Author Project is a self-publishing program where local indie authors can share publish their e-book through the Library. Authors looking to promote their work and increase readership and exposure can submit their work to Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Indie Author Project program to be featured in the statewide Indie North Carolina's collection, with the potential for national exposure.
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How does the Indie Author Project Program work?
- Authors submit their works to Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Indie Author Project site
- All submissions are vetted by Biblioboard and then Library Journal further vets Adult and YA fiction submissions
- After the book is vetted by Biblioboard, it appears in Biblioboard Library in the statewide Indie North Carolina Collection
- Adult and YA fiction titles deemed by Library Journal as high-quality works are labeled as Indie Author Project Select titles.
How do authors submit their work to Indie Author Project?
Authors can submit to Indie Author Project in three ways:
- Visit Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Indie Author Project page (click ACCESS NOW).
- Authors can submit their work directly from Pressbooks under the "Publish" option.
- From the Biblioboard Library menu option, authors can click the "Submit Your eBook" link at the bottom of the page and will be redirected to the Indie Author Project Page.
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International Newsstream
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Access to more than 600 of the world's top newspapers.
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Learning Express/PrepStep
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Suite of highly-acclaimed eLearning solutions which provide interactive tutorials, practice tests, e-books, flashcards and articles for academic skill-building, standardized test preparation, career development and more.
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Legal Forms (Gale)
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Free North Carolina legal forms.
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Gale welcomes you to the most extensive free forms site available to library patrons. Forms available on Gale Legal Forms include forms drafted by attorneys for a particular legal matter, forms from public records and participating companies and attorneys. "Official" North Carolina forms are also included. The legal forms available on Gale Legal Forms include business, personal, litigation and federal forms.
General Business Forms are forms which may be used in North Carolina with little modification. General Litigation Forms are various litigation forms covering many diverse causes of action. These forms are easily modified by Attorneys to apply in North Carolina. North Carolina specific forms are forms provided by Participating Attorneys, form companies, or forms specifically adapted to North Carolina. Federal Forms are business and litigation forms used in the Federal system.
Warning: Public users should consult an attorney in their state for serious legal matters.
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LibGuide: Careers
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LibGuide: Careers contains helpful information on how to search for a job, job search preparation, books and resources available at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and more.
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LibGuide: Getting Started in Entrepreneurship
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LibGuide: Getting Started in Entrepreneurship is the ultimate guidebook for someone who is thinking about starting a business in the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County area.
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Library Science Database (ProQuest)
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This database allows you to search the full-text of leading library and information science journals. This collection provides full-text coverage of 125+ core titles.
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