The North Carolina Collection, a department of the Special Collections located in Wilson Library on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus, contains over a quarter of a million published items related to North Carolina and its people.
Holdings range from a sixteenth-century volume to the most current issue of the campus newspaper.
Fiction and non-fiction books are included, as well as pamphlets , newspapers , journals, newsletters, maps , broadsides , microforms, and audiovisuals. County and municipal histories, city directories, telephone books, and college catalogs are part of the collection. The department is also a full depository for North Carolina state government publications under the state's depository program. Archival copies of undergraduate honors essays and graduate theses and dissertations from UNC-CH are also among the holdings. North Carolina native and University of North Carolina alumnus Thomas Wolfe.