Joyner Library Announcements

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Joyner Library is pleased to announce the launch of its all-new Digital Collections portal. (http://digital.lib.ecu.edu). The site offers a one-stop-shop for finding the library s special collections online.
Materials from across the holdings of the library are selected for digital conversion scanning, photographing, or converting audio and video recordings to digital versions. Then these materials are added to our growing website.

Historical items from the University Archives, manuscripts, photographs, rare books, and maps are all featured along with many other types of materials. Prior to the launch of this site, the only access to these items was through the use of the library’s Special Collections Department Reading Room. With the new Digital Collections portal, you can find and use these items anytime and from any place.

You can try simple or advanced searches, browse through collections, or use the subject cloud to discover items you may not have known the library owned. Each record allows you to comment on or tag items, so you can also make your own mark on our collections.

The items in the web site at present focus on several major themes and collections including:
African American history
Agriculture
Fine and performing arts
Postcards of eastern North Carolina
Letters from the Civil War in the Robert B. Caldwell Collection
Naval and maritime history
Military history
The development of transportation, manufacturing, and municipal works in eastern North Carolina
The history of East Carolina University

In the coming months, Digital Collections will be adding more and more material to its site. Sound recordings in the Centennial Oral History collection will be the next major addition. These interviews relate the experiences of ECU alumni who were the first in their families to attend college. The collection was created in honor of ECU’s Centennial year, and its release will coincide with a public program on March 26 to honor the twenty interviewees who participated in the project.

Joyner Library has recently started a Green Task Force. Its mission is to research, propose, implement, and promote green education and sustainable environmental practices in the university library environment and to raise awareness of green initiatives in Joyner Library, other libraries in the ECU system, and the local community. The Spring 2009 issue of the Green Task Force Newsletter is now available at http://www.personal.ecu.edu/gustavsona/GTFSpring2009.pdf