The Friends of Joyner Library was established in 1978 and is the oldest friends group at #ECU.
Plenty to celebrate and listen to during the FOJL annual meeting and reception held earlier this week. Coverage from ECU News Services coming soon!
Congratulations award-winners and #ARRRGH student employees who are graduating! #ECU26
Marie and James Thompson Student Employee Award recipients:
Oreoluwa Adegoke - circulation
Madison Howlett - manuscripts and digital curation
Juan Teakell - research and instructional services/teaching resources center
Alissa Thompson - archives
Students - earn prizes and recognition through our student awards program.
The W. Keats Sparrow Writing Award recognizes excellence in research and writing by #ECU students in English 1100 and 2201 composition classes. The deadline for 2025-26 award entries is approaching on May 8.
Papers may be submitted by the instructor (with the student’s permission) or by the student.
Click on the Sprout link in bio to submit an entry.
Join us May 12 for the #ECU Friends of Joyner Library annual meeting and reception, featuring guest Ruffin McNeill. As featured speaker, McNeill will discuss his career and details about authoring the children’s book, “A Little Pirate’s ABCs.”
Free and open for all to attend!
RSVP by clicking the Sprout link in our bio for the Eventbrite RSVP.
Join us May 12 for the #ECU Friends of Joyner Library annual meeting and reception, featuring guest Ruffin McNeill. As featured speaker, McNeill will discuss his career and details about authoring the children’s book, “A Little Pirate’s ABCs.”
Free and open for all to attend!
RSVP by clicking the Sprout link in our bio for the Eventbrite RSVP.
Joyner Library’s conservator, Larry Houston, and the head of the North Carolina Collection, Jennifer Daugherty, worked with Dr. Helen Dixon’s Ancient Near Eastern History class to provide students an opportunity to see some of our collections of early Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek works. After learning about early texts on papyrus, students were given the opportunity to make some historic ink and try out brushes and reed pens for writing on real papyrus. Students wrote poetry, copied magic healing charms from early medical texts, or created images based on works from our Special and Circulating Collections.
This was a fantastic collaboration and a great experiential learning opportunity for the participants!
Students - earn prizes and recognition through our student awards program.
The W. Keats Sparrow Writing Award recognizes excellence in research and writing by #ECU students in English 1100 and 2201 composition classes. The deadline for 2025-26 award entries is approaching on May 8.
Papers may be submitted by the instructor (with the student’s permission) or by the student.
Click on the Sprout link in bio to submit an entry.
You held an instruction session where?
Yes, the USS North Carolina in Wilmington as part of Dr. Mary Huffman’s place-based learning trip with ELEM 3500. What an experience for all! @ecu_coe
There were tours and various sessions, including Patrick Cash and John Dunning leading instructional sessions about using #ECU Manuscript Collection material related to World War II. Cash's presentation was on prisoners of war as documented in our collections, and Dunning's was on the experience of North Carolinians during WWII.
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