Project Partners
The NCSU Libraries serves as the gateway to knowledge and information for the NC State community and its partners. The library system consists of a central library (D. H. Hill) and four branches for design, natural resources, textiles, and veterinary medicine. With a staff of approximately 300, the Libraries has nearly 3.4 million volumes and subscribes to more than 54,000 print and electronic journals. The Libraries is heavily involved in digital initiatives and is the lead server site for NC LIVE, a multi-type library project that makes digital resources accessible to the residents of North Carolina.
The Geographic Information Coordinating Council (GICC) fosters cooperation
among government agencies, universities and the private sector. It creates
policy and resolves technical issues related to North Carolina geographic
information and GIS systems. The GICC's mission is to improve the
quality, access, cost-effectiveness and utility of North Carolina's
geographic information and promote geographic information as a strategic
resource for the State. The Center for Geographic Information and Analysis provides staff support for the Council.
The North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (CGIA) is a division within the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. CGIA is the lead coordinating agency in state government for geographic information. Established in 1977 as part of the Land Policy Act under the name of Land Resources Information Service, CGIA implemented one of the first fully operational state geographic information systems in the country. Its traditional mission has been to build and maintain a statewide database of digital geographic information and to provide GIS services to a broad list of clients including federal agencies, state government agencies, local government and regional organizations, the private sector, and academic institutions. Technological improvements in GIS software coupled with the availability of Internet web-mapping tools have created new opportunities for the use of geographic information by government and the public.
North Carolina aims to have a statewide framework of geographic information operational by the year 2005. That framework will promote the maintenance of economic vitality in our communities, public health and safety, and the quality of life for all North Carolinians. Our citizens will take the availability of comprehensive geographic information for granted. The foundation of the vision is a comprehensive statewide geographic data resource, called NC OneMap. Data content, accuracy and scales of the resource will be determined through consensus and in recognition of the critical uses to which it is applied. NC OneMap will serve the basic information requirements for decision-making in the community, statewide, and in support of national priorities. NC OneMap will provide information to support the daily business processes of numerous organizations and their functions. While any user may have a unique view of the resource and it ostensibly may be physically distributed and maintained by a variety of data producers, it will appear to users as consolidated and integrated.
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