From the monthly archives: May 2008

The only books needing relabeling are Divinity Library books with Dewey call numbers (starting with numbers, not letters, like 287.6 on the first line). Just bring the books to the library, we will do the relabeling, and return them to you later that day.

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An exhibition of 160 photographs mounted in 5 venues at Duke University. South African photographer Paul Weinberg conceived and curated Then & Now.

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Congratulations to Matt Schlimm for submitting his winning entry for our 2007 Theological Library Month contest and earning his place in library history. Among the many possible reasons students should come to the Divinity School Library, Matt suggested, “It is the last place on earth where things are quiet enough to concentrate.” Also, see [...]

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By reading the Fall 2007 or Fall 2006 @ Your Service… newsletters you can learn about various services that the library offers.

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Almost all of our books now have call numbers that start with letters (BX 4827) instead of numbers (261.7). In the late summer of 2007, our collection was converted to the Library of Congress Classification system where each volume was relabeled with a new call number and reordered in our stacks. Please use the “Request” [...]

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Alumni Resources

On May 9, 2008 By

The Divinity School Library at Duke University is pleased to offer our alumni access to ATLAS, an online collection of more than eighty major religion and theology journals from as early as 1924 to the present. Alumni will need to register in order to receive an assigned username and password to enter the database. [...]

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Donn Michael Farris was the Divinity School librarian at Duke for his entire professional career, from 1950 to 1992. Mr. Farris died on March 5, 2005. In lieu of sending flowers, memorial gifts be made to the Divinity School Library at Duke University.

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” NPR : The Short List: Stuck in the Middle”
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Melissa Harrell, a Divinity School Library circulation manager, recently read her list on the NPR program, “Day to Day.”. Please click on the headline or the audio icon to listen to the story using a RealAudio or WindowsMedia player. To [...]

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