ECU main campus library, Academic Library Services, was one of six North Carolina venues chosen to host Crossroads: Change in Rural America, a traveling exhibition examining the evolving landscape of rural America.

Crossroads: Change in Rural America is a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that offers small towns and rural communities a chance to look at their own paths to highlight the changes that affected their fortunes over the past century. The exhibit explores how rural America embraces the notion that their citizens and their cultural uniqueness are important assets.