Piedmont Wildlife Center Records 2003-2009

The Piedmont Wildlife Center is a non-profit organization founded in 2003 located in Durham, North Carolina. Their mission is to foster a healthy relationship among people, wildlife, and nature. They focus on education, conservation, and promoting the care of injured and sick native wildlife. While not all animals are on display, they do house some animals for educational purposes including birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

The Piedmont Wildlife Center Records include medical records, 2003-2009, of Piedmont Wildlife Center, including intake forms and logs, physical exam forms, lab logs, and a record of data from the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (BEIPS). NC BEIPS has received electronic data from PWC since January 1, 2005.

Records include information on species of animal admitted, its injury, found orphaned or ill, location where found, person bringing animal to the hospital and subsequent information about examination findings, treatment, or disposition (released, died in care, euthanized, other).

Nearly all items are compiled into binders, most of which have a front cover describing what is included inside and the year. They appear to be arranged in chronological order, at least by year if not also by specific date and form number. Some items are in composition notebooks, like lab notes, but those comprise a small percentaage of the collection compared to material in binders.

This collection has not received full archival processing. Most materials remain in binders and the binders have been grouped by the type of records in them.

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This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.

[Identification of item], Piedmont Wildlife Center Records, MC 00457, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Gift of Piedmont Wildlife Center, September 2012 (Accession no. 2012.0224).

Processed by Lori E. Harris, Meaghan Lanier and Linda Sellars; finding aid written by Lori E. Harris, Meaghan Lanier and Linda Sellars, 2012 September.