Government Information

This Guide will help expand your arsenal of information available to answer questions about #EverythingNC. Here, you will find a sampler of North Carolina resources and services that can be found in the NC Government and Heritage Library and online through the State Library’s website, as well as other great sources of North Carolina information and digitized collections created by libraries and cultural institutions. Topics covered are NC history, genealogy, government, data and demographics, and legal issues.

Full text current and historic publications produced by North Carolina state government. The collection includes publications on a wide variety of topics including health care, agriculture, transportation, and education.

The main webpage for information about state agencies and programs

A digital encyclopedia about North Carolina

Digitized resources about North Carolina from the State Archives and the State Library of North Carolina

Information about the North Carolina General Assembly legislation, House, and Senate

Books, journals, electronic collections, genology, and research help from the State Library of North Carolina

This link to the General Statutes of North Carolina in Lexis Nexis contains documents from the General Statutes of North Carolina (Statutes and Constitution), the Annotated Rules of North Carolina and the North Carolina Advance Legislative Service. Once in the document to see the Table of Contents click on the "Show TOC" link in the top left of the page.

State and County quick facts from the US Census Bureau

A list of state and local government information sites from the Library of Congress

A list of information sites from all 50 states with descriptions

A federal list of state government information sites