The Reference Department offers personal assistance and instruction in the use of library resources to members of the ECU community (both on-campus and distance learners). Assistance is provided at the reference desk, via e-mail and telephone, and through various web-based services. An extensive program of outreach and library instruction are at the heart of the Department's activities.

Reference Services

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Computer Information
On the first floor of Joyner Library, there are more than 160 workstations (including four Macs), six plasma screens, six flatbed scanners (35mm film scans as well), four printers and one color printer.  Click here to see the list of equipment available for checkout at the circulation desk.  Click here to see the list of software that's available in Joyner Library.

Distance Learning Library Services

Library services available to distance learning students...

Instructional Services

Library sessions tailored to classes and assignments, research consultations, and more...

Research First Aid is a series of audio and video podcasts developed to inform library users about the different resources and services available at the Laupus Health Sciences Library and the Joyner Academic Library...

Joyner Library classrooms 1020 & 1021 are for use by Joyner Library faculty and staff members to provide library instruction classes.  Our growing instruction program provides more than 200 library instruction sessions a semester.  At this time, Joyner Library is unable to accommodate reservation requests from outside the library because of the high demand for classroom space.  The only exception is for requests made by ECU's executive administration.