Appalachian State University, located in Boone North Carolina, has four colleges and a School of Music, offering more than 170 degree programs and 1,500 courses.Etree is a community of FTP servers that host and distribute lossless digital audio files across the Internet using Shorten (SHN) audio compression.Wake Tech began in 1958 offering classes to prepare students for specific skills needed in industry. Today, we offer more than 70 technical and vocational programs, which follow our tradition of training students for specific job skills, as well as a college transfer program for those who want to continue their education at four-year institutions. In addition, our continuing educationprograms provide hundreds of non-credit courses for job upgrading or personal interest.Serving both Caldwell and Watauga counties, Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute has campuses located in both Hudson and Boone, NC.University of North Carolina WilmingtonWFU School of Medicine and the North Carolina Baptist Hospital form an academic medical center that operates under the name of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. WFU Physicians has some of the top doctors in the nation on its staff.One of 58 colleges in the North Carolina Community College System, A-B Tech offers associate degrees, diplomas or certificates in 60 curriculum programs. Continuing Education offers personal interest and workforce development courses.Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, CMLibrary, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, PLCMC, Library