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Four library employees use large scissors to cut gold ribbon.
Oct 28, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

New spaces brighten, enhance Teaching Resources Center

It’s a new era at the Colonel Richard M. and Betty Debnam Hunt Teaching Resources Center. Tyanna Watson, a junior birth through kindergarten teacher education major, realized that moments after...

Art hanging on a white wall.
Oct 08, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

18th SOAD exhibit celebrates grad students

An annual exhibit celebrating artwork from ECU’s School of Art and Design is on display in the Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery, on the second floor of Joyner Library, into mid-December....

A library employee sits in a black chair holding two books with more books and desk materials in her office background.
Jul 24, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Interlibrary loan process makes swift, free connections

The thesis research process for East Carolina University music graduate student Matthew Mantini could have been costly, including when he was interested in one full score that cost $255 to...

A business professional presents as she stands at a computer while talking to conference guests sitting in the room with a projector screen.
Jun 11, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

SNCA presenters look at the past, future

Elizabeth LaFave embraced and developed an entrepreneurial mindset at East Carolina University that continues today. LaFave, a two-time ECU alumna and the sixth annual Aman Pirate Challenge winner with the...

A newspaper from 1941 is displayed beside other World War II artifacts in a library.
May 16, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Explore the library’s WWII exhibit

The exhibit, “In Their Footsteps: Exploring World War II Through Archival Records,” is available to view and featured on the library’s first, third and fourth floors. This exhibit, curated by...

Donor Marie Thompson stands with a group of four college student award winners in library art gallery.
May 13, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Awards highlight student writers, employees

Energetic and accomplished East Carolina University students were honored as award-winners by Academic Library Services in the Janice Hardison Faulkner Library, the day before ECU’s spring 2025 commencement ceremony. The...

People gathered and talking in a library art gallery.
Apr 16, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Friends group holds 2025 reception

The Friends of Joyner Library’s 2025 banquet and reception was held May 13, including awards handed out to Academic Library Service director Jan Lewis and longtime library and East Carolina...

Four paintings displayed on a gallery wall.
Apr 01, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Art exhibit is a VanderMeer, Eagle collaboration

The Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery, on the library’s second floor, showcases longtime collaborative work between Scott Eagle and Jeff VanderMeer. The exhibit, “Visualizing the Unknowable: Jeff VanderMeer and Scott Eagle,”...

Feb 03, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Two new open access agreements

ECU Libraries are pleased to announce two new open access agreements, enabling our researchers to reach more readers. We now support open access publishing agreements with 11 publishers. As part of...

Group of people performing ribbon-cutting with large scissors at Wildwood Park.
Jan 07, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

StoryWalks merge fun, fitness with reading

Parents and caregivers emphasized the fun of reading as they enjoyed spirited, reading-based activities for children at Wildwood Park on Jan. 18 to help introduce StoryWalks to Greenville. StoryWalk panels,...

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