ECU’s Main Campus Library – Year in Review

A message from Library Director, Jan Lewis

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Jan Lewis, Library Director

Our 2023 Year-in-Review provides the opportunity to celebrate accomplishments, consider connections and impact, and focus on the future. While our mission is constant, how we achieve it evolves in response to user needs and behavior, trends in research and publishing, program growth at ECU®, and disruptive but exciting innovations such as generative artificial intelligence. The year 2023 brought new ways to support students’ well-being, personal growth, and academic success. We grew our support for open access publishing at ECU and will continue to be leaders in this area. We acquired and provided access to new electronic and print resources, which will ensure our students and faculty have access to cutting-edge research, a record amount of primary content, and coverage of topics previously underrepresented in publisher offerings and in our library. We brought exciting speakers to campus and curated exhibits that educated, inspired, and promoted Pirate™ pride.

It takes a great team to produce these outcomes. It is my pleasure to work with such a team at the East Carolina University® Main Campus Library! Our success is also due to the generosity of supporters like you. Thank you for contributing your time, talent, and treasure. We hope you enjoy this year in review and we invite you to be part of our future.

Jan S. Lewis, Library Director

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2023 Year in Review

Check out some of our Past Year in Review Publications below:

Also, below is our short video providing a “look back at 2021.”