Rowan Public Library and NC LIVE
Edward Hirst
Rowan Public Library

NC LIVE offers the citizens of Rowan County access to a diverse collection of electronic resources including complete articles from over 16,000 newspapers, journals, magazines, and encyclopedias, indexing for over 25,000 periodical titles, and access to over 25,000 online print and audio books. NC LIVE is available free of charge to members of Rowan Public Library. The NC LIVE website http://www.nclive.org/ can be accessed from within the library or remotely. Access from home is restricted by password which can be requested from any Rowan Public Library location. The citizens of Rowan County can receive help using NC LIVE from the library’s helpful staff.
NC LIVE is supported by the General Assembly and the citizens of North Carolina as well as the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities. Generous support for some of the independent college and university libraries has also been received from The Duke Endowment and The Cannon Foundation. The role of state funding is to "level the playing field" so that rural isolation, community or institutional financial constraints, and limited local library resources are not barriers to accessing information.

NC LIVE provides equal access for all people of North Carolina to an essential and powerful array of online resources and related services to enhance education, economic development, and quality of life throughout the state. The libraries of North Carolina share a vision of each library in the state serving as a gateway to the total library and information resources in the state and to a rich array of electronic information.

The goals of NC LIVE are to provide citizens: Universal access to core group of reference and research materials online in the form of full-text electronic information and indexes; Unlimited access to digital versions of important historical documents and state government information; Information to assist users in gaining access to print materials available in libraries statewide; Assistance from library staff with the skills to help people of all ages use these exciting resources.

If you would like to learn more about accessing some of these resources, there will be a class held at the Headquarters location of Rowan Public Library on Thursday, November 1st at 9:15 a.m.