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                         RECORDS OF THE
                  NORTH CAROLINA UNION CATALOG

                             in the


             University Archives and Records Service
                         Wilson Library
           University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                            CB# 3926
                   Chapel Hill, North Carolina
                         7514-8890


                            May 1995

     The North Carolina Union Catalog was established in 1933
through the cooperative efforts of the University of North
Carolina and Duke University. With initial funding of $12,500
from a General Education Board grant, the libraries of the two
schools agreed to copy and exchange catalog cards for their
holdings. In 1937 North Carolina State College began adding
copies of its cards to the UNC file, and by 1957 the number of
participants had grown to fifteen. The catalog was originally
housed in the Reference Dept. of Wilson Library, but as it grew,
it required its own separate area and staff. In 1977 the entire
catalog was transferred from Chapel Hill to the state library in
Raleigh.

     The NCUC functioned as a tool for researchers and library
users in North Carolina by providing "a complete record of the
bibliographic resources of the libraries" in the state. Its
primary purposes were to give greater access to books and
materials held in these libraries, to serve as a verification
tool for interlibrary loan departments, and to enable
acquisitions departments to determine holdings in other
libraries.

     These records include minutes of the meetings of the NCUC 
Advisory Committee, correspondence and policy concerning
additions to the catalog, the finding aid to the microfilm
edition of the catalog, and two studies regarding the catalog.

Box 1:
     Advisory Committee, 1976-1979
     Chronology, 1933-1976
     Correspondence/Memoranda, 1934-1976
     Finding Aid to Microfilm Edition, 1972
     Policy, 1942-1976
     Reports:
          Progress, 1968-1975
          Statistical, 1936-1937; 1959; 1971-1977
     Studies:
          Neely, Eugene T., "The North Carolina Union Catalog: An
               Examination and Evaluation," (UNC, MA), 1968
          Tomlinson, Charles E., "The North Carolina Union
               Catalog Since 1968," (UNC, MA), 1973