Kelly Rusk Archives

Apr 14, 2021
  • Kelly Rusk

Ledonia Wright Cultural Center hosts “Beyond Bricks and Mortar” exhibit.

Photos from the library’s 2016 “Beyond Bricks and Mortar” exhibition and oral history project are currently on display in the Ledonia Wright Cultural Center in the Main Campus Student Center...

Sep 20, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

Joyner faculty receives Fulbright award

Katy Webb, head of research and instructional services at East Carolina University’s Joyner Library, has received a Fulbright specialist grant and will travel to the Netherlands to work with the...

Sep 03, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

“For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” at Joyner Library

“…we had averted our eyes for far too long, turning away from the ugly reality facing us as a nation. Let the world see what I’ve seen.” – Mamie Till...

news sources
Jun 19, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

Helping students develop a nose for news

In a time of an increasing number of news sources, a never-ending news cycle and “fake news,” it’s not enough to just consume the news; we also must evaluate and...

May 31, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

Take Up Space exhibit opens June 7

Take Up Space, paintings by Gabrielle Brant Freeman, comes to Joyner Library's Faulkner Gallery June 7 through August 15. Much of Freeman’s poetry centers on women: women's sexuality, women's bodies,...

Mar 13, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

New exhibit inspired by home

Artists and ECU School of Art and Design faculty members Beth Blake and Jim Tisnado are working with – and inspired by – a medium not typically associated with art:...

Mar 12, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

Photography exhibit documents farmworkers’ experiences

Joyner Library welcomes the “More than one story,” or “Más de una historia,” photography exhibit to the RIS hallway, on the first floor, from March 22 through May 10. The...

Mar 05, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

14th annual Librarian to Librarian summit builds connections

More than 130 school librarians and media coordinators, Master of Library Science students and library faculty from across the state gathered for the 14th annual Librarian to Librarian Networking Summit,...

Lucille W Gorham and her daughter Lucille Gorham Sayles share photos and memories
Feb 04, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

Joyner Library remembers Lucille W. Gorham

Last week, Lucille W. Gorham passed away and we lost a treasured community leader, inspiration and namesake of Greenville's Lucille W. Gorham Inter-Generational Center. We were honored to have Mrs....