The Leontyne Price Library is the name of the library on the campus of Rust College in honor of notable soprano Mary Violet Leontyne Price. She gave a concert in Jackson, MS, in March 1967 which raised the money to build the library. It was built in the late 1960s and opened in 1970. It is 30,440 square feet with three levels and an elevator. The library has a seating capacity of 230 people. The library uses the Library of Congress Classification System to organize the collection.
Welcome to the Leontyne Price Library
Brief History
Library Hours
Monday – Thursday: 8:00am – 10:00 pm
Friday: 8:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Sunday: 2:00pm – 8:00pm
*****Hours may vary depending on Holiday Observances and school breaks
Contact Us
Address: 150 Rust Avenue, Holly Springs, MS 38635
Circulation Desk Phone: 662-252-8000 Ext. 4100
Mission
The mission of the Leontyne Price Library is to provide access to print and nonprint scholarly resources and technology to embrace, complement, and strengthen the mission of the college. In keeping with the mission and vision of the college, the library collects and develops learning opportunities that meet the informational, cultural, recreational, and social needs of the college community. The library requires the expertise of the entire college community to develop a collection of adequate and appropriate resources to support their educational and informational needs.
Vision
The vision of the Leontyne Price Library holds to the process of transforming a book centered library into a technological Library Information Center capable of providing quality information literacy to the Rust College community as well as to the city Holly Springs and surrounding areas.
Be curious! Discover the tremendous resources that the Leontyne Price Library has to offer!
Quick Links
- STUDENT SERVICES
- DATABASES JOURNALS
- E-NEWSPAPERS
- E-JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
- SPECIAL COLLECTION
- BLOOMBERG SERVICES
- LIBRARY STAFF
Student Services
Individual identification cards are required of each student before checking out library resources.
A total of five books are checked out at any given time. A due date print out will be given when books are due back.
Visually or physically disabled users should feel free to ask for special assistance.
Students have the liberty of requesting book loans from other libraries if the campus library does not have the required book(s). This service may be requested at the reference and circulation desk.
Library Orientations are offered for freshman, transfer students, and new faculty at the beginning of each semester. Individual orientations are provided as requested. Ask the library staff for more information.
Tutoring is coordinated by staff tutors. Professional tutors work with students during developmental education classes, in small groups, and in one-on-one sessions.
Multifunctioning Xerox machines are available in the library. These machines allow users to print, scan, make copies and laminate.
Printing and copy prices are:
$0.10 cent per copy for black and white and color copies
$0.25 per copy for color copies
Laminating prices are:
$0.50 for Letter sized 8.5 x 11
$0.75 for Legal size 8.5 x 14
$1.00 for all other over size
Databases/Journals
OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) or Library Catalog is an index of all library resources held in the Leontyne Price Library. Resources may be accessed by AUTHOR, TITLE, or SUBJECT. This automatic catalog can be accessed on and off campus.
ProQuest is a multidisciplinary database with a collection of thousands of academic journals, news articles dissertations, magazines and eBooks.
Magnolia is a statewide consortium funded by the Mississippi Legislature that provides journals, dissertations, newspapers, magazines, and eBooks.
Oxford Journal is an academic database that offers books, academic journals and magazines. It serves students, researchers, professors, and others.
JSTOR is a digital library that provides approximately 50 research databases. These databases provide online research of academic journals, dissertations, magazines, primary resources, and eBooks.
E-Books/e-magazines and newspapers are available at the Leontyne Price Library.
Electronic books and magazines are available at the Leontyne Price Library. These resources may be accessed on and off campus by the Rust College community; with the use of an access code given at the library.
E-Newspapers
Atlantic Journal | North West Mississippi Daily Journal | Tupelo Daily Journal |
Chicago Defender | Pittsburg Courier | Wall Street Journal |
Chicago Tribune | Saint Louis Post | |
Final Call | Saturday Evening Post | |
New York Times | South Reporter | |
New Yorker | Tri-State Defender |
E- Journals and Magazines
American History | Explicator | Library Teaching, Education |
American Journal of Education | Forbes, Social Studies | Library Journal |
American Journal of Science | GQ, culture, recreation | Library Resources |
American Journal of Sociology | Good House Keeping, recreation | Library Trends |
American Literature | Griot, Social Science | MIT, Education |
American Mathematics Monthly | Harper’s , Recreation | Miss. Historical Society |
American Scholar | Health and Social work | Mississippi Magazine |
Black College Today | Instructor, Education | Modern Drama |
Better Homes | JOPERD, Physical Education | Music Education |
Better Homes and Gardens | Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy | Nation |
Business Week | Journal of American History | National geographic |
Child Development | Journal of Broadcasting | New Republic |
Child Welfare | Journal of Black Studies | The New Yorker |
Childhood Ed. | Journal of Broadcasting and Electronics | News Week |
Christian Century | Journal of Counseling Psychology | Office Pro. |
Christianity Today | Journal of Education for Business | Parent, Education |
Choice | Journal of Ethics and Cultural Diversity in Social Work | Poetry, Humanities |
Childhood Ed. | Journal of Family Social Work | Popular Science, Physical Science |
Christian Century | Journal of Gay and Lesbian Services | Prevention, Religion |
Christianity Today | Journal of Learning disabilities | Publishers Weekly, Education |
College English | Journal of Marriage and Family, Social work | Readers Digest, General |
College Teaching | Journal of Negro Education, Social Science | School Arts, Education |
Chronicle Of Higher Ed. | Journal of Politics, Social Science | Science |
Computers in Library | Journal of Public Administration, Business | Science News |
Congressional Digest | Journal of Research Learning Disabilities, Education | |
Entrepreneur | Journal of School Psychology | |
Essence | Language Arts, Humanities | |
Esquire | Library Arts, Humanities |
Special Collection
The Archival Collection is a repository with a mission to identify records artifacts and papers of enduring value after critical evaluation; to preserve evaluate and make acquisitions available to patrons. This collection is located on the 3rd floor of the library.
The Ida B. Wells Social Justice Collection is a collection of books, records and artifacts of Ida B. Well and other social justice participants. This collection is located on the 3rd floor of the library.
The Roy Wilkins Collection is a collection of books, papers, Artifacts, accolades, paraphilia, books and pictures donated in 1986 by Mrs. Amanda Wilkins, his wife. Other artifacts were added to this collection after his death. This collection is located on the 3rd floor of the library.
Beulah Compton Social Work Collection is a collection of Social work and other books donated by Beulah Compton. This collection is located on the 3rd floor of the library.
The International Room is a collection of artifacts and printed materials and clothes from (10) countries. They are: Denmark, Norway, Pakistan, India, China, Mexico, Egypt, Israel, West Africa, and the United States. This collection is located on the 1st floor of the library.
The United Methodist Room is a collection of Church Histories, Religious, Poetry and speech writings, books for ministries and ministerial students. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Howard Thurman tapes are also available. This collection is located on the 1st floor of the Library.
The Audio Visual Collection is a collection of DVD’s, CD’s Tapes, and Records. This collection is located on the 3rd floor of the library.
Permission to tour special collections can be acquired at the circulation desk. We ask that users reserve the right to tour in advance.
Bloomberg Services
Bloomberg is a global provider of financial news and information, including real-time and historical price data, financial data, trading news, and analyst coverage. Its services, which span its platform, television, radio, and print, offer professional analysis tools for financial professionals.
Bloomberg Terminal
Bloomberg L.P. provides financial software tools and enterprise applications such as analytics and equity trading platform, data services, and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg Terminal (via its Bloomberg Professional Service), its core revenue-generating product.
Bloomberg Finance Lab helps your students build the skills needed for a career in finance, enhances your curriculum and better positions your university as a leader in the academic space.
https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/expertise/students/
As a student of business or finance entering a rapidly changing economy and geo-political climate, you need every edge you can get. Knowledge of and experience using the Bloomberg Terminal is that edge.
The Bloomberg Terminal is used by financial institutions and corporations all over the world to make critical decisions about risk, investments and markets.
Bloomberg has developed ways to help you gain the all-important experience of the Bloomberg Terminal that will help set you apart for potential employers.
Boost your skill set — and super-charge your marketability — with a Bloomberg Certification. The quickest way to do this is with our eight-hour self-directed e-learning course, Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC). With modules on Economics, Fixed Income, Equities, Currencies and using the Bloomberg Terminal, BMC will help you emerge with an edge.
Bloomberg work’s directly with universities all over the world, providing Bloomberg Financial Market Labs: spaces packed with Bloomberg Terminals, free for students to use. With syllabus-integration, you will learn how to use important analytical functions in the Terminal, conduct economic research and analysis, benefit from a wide-range of pre-built analytical models and more.
ADNOC-Bloomberg Economic Research Challenge
Students have the opportunity to mimic economists across the world, compete against other students across the Emirates and compile their own macroeconomic paper using the latest economic indicators and research tools on the Bloomberg Terminal.
Bloomberg Coding Program
Learn how to program in Python, use the Bloomberg Query Language (BQL), and perform research within BQuant.
Bloomberg Islamic Finance Module
Understand the fundamentals of Islamic Finance, the types of Shariah Finance and the Bloomberg tools you can use for relevant analysis.
Bloomberg Trading Challenge
Use the skills you’ve developed and your knowledge of the Terminal to create a winning portfolio.
Fixed Income
Understand the fundamentals of the Fixed Income market, including bond basics, yield curves, credit default swaps and interest rate derivatives.
Library Staff

Zupuriuh Harrington, EdD
Director of Library Services

Mrs. Ferristeen Clayborn
Circulation Assistant, M.Ed.

Mrs. Gwendolyn Jones
Technical Processing, M.Ed.

Mr. Theoplis Walton
IT Specialist, Bachelor of Computer Science
Donations Are Welcome
Examples: pledges, gifts, individual retirements, beneficiaries.