North Carolina Phone Books

I am proud to announce that all of the NCC’s North Carolina phone books have been cataloged and are now available for searching in the UNC Library’s online catalog. To help make finding these phone books easier in the online catalog, we decided to keep it as simple as possible. Now, you can simply search for: “Place name phone book” (i.e. Chapel Hill phone book) to find one of our collection’s North Carolina phone books. Each record is linked to our helpful and handy “Guide to Telephone Directories in North Carolina”, which is currently in the process of being updated and edited so that it reflects our most accurate holdings.

See the links below for telephone book resources in the NC Collection:

Link to Guide to Telephone Directories in North Carolina

Link to Chapel Hill phone books record in catalog [an example of what a catalog record will show]

Summertime Activities?

The NCC has a fabulous “staff picks” display up in our reading room, which everyone should come by and check out, if you have some free time. The staff of the NCC is asked to place different themed items in this exhibit, which is changed about every 3-4 months.

The current staff pick theme is “Summertime”!! Earlier this year, I cataloged an item which I thought would be perfect to add to the summertime themed staff picks display. Its content screamed summer and it even had important North Carolina content about where to enjoy these summer time activities! After taking another look at my chosen piece, I reconsidered publicly displaying it and decided that a blog post would be a better way to present this particular summer time activity: Skinny Dipping!

The nudist magazine, Free Beaches, published a 36-page article entitled “Guide to nude beaches of the United States” in June, 1978, which listed twelve spots in North Carolina that were nude friendly. Most places listed were secluded swimming holes where skinny dipping was known to happen. Although one nudist subdivision was also mentioned; a little online searching found that this subdivision does still exist and is described as a “clothing optional community”. The article states that “North Carolina has an active clothes-free population “ and that further information could be found by contacting an organization based in Chapel Hill!?