Top Ten Contest winner

By Andrew Keck On October 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Theological libraries

Thank you for submitting your favorite reasons to come to the Divinity School Library in our recent Theological Library Month contest. The 2009 winner was doctoral student Maria Doerfler for her entry “… by year 3 of your Duke career, you might actually be able to find your way from Folios to Front Desk without a trail of breadcrumbs.”

Other entries included:
Brad Acton

You might get to talk to Brad Acton.

You can faithfully live into the social gospel by caring for the homeless guy that sleeps in the quartos…seriously.

Andy Keck can turn your Coffee Cup into a fully functional Macbook Pro.

Being in the stacks when the bell rings at 10:50PM can make you question your understanding of theodicy.

Cheri Benjamin

My reason for being here is to interact with other like minded folks.

Wes Brown

I can enter as many times as I like!

Brian M. Bryant

because it is the same space where many great theologians, ministers and leaders, those of today and yesterday, have studied, worshiped and wrestled in and with the great calling from above.

Johann Choi

because… I work here. If I didn’t show up, I’d probably get fired.

Blake Daniel

nowhere else can I hang out not just with Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin but also Lewis, Bonhoeffer, Wright, and Hauerwas — all in one building!

I like living on the edge when I pass through the angry metal detector on my way out…

I love printing for (virtually) free!

Maria Doerfler

… by year 3 of your Duke career, you might actually be able to find your way from Folios to Front Desk without a trail of breadcrumbs.

… seeing your friends’ status updates on Facebook is simply no substitute for the camaraderie of the Reference Room!

Wesley Johnson

Only the Divinity School Library has the York Room–a once solemn and holy place of worship, now a solemn and holy place of study.

Ches Kennedy

Luba is here!

Todd Maberry

of the theological conversation taking place on the wall of the bathroom in the sub-basement.

Eric Meckley

Service with a smile.

monopoly money pays for the printer.

come for the books, stay for the people.

Emily Scales

guitar lessons are being offered. We have the books and now a guitar to share the gift of music with the world!

Hannah R. Terry

It’s the one stop shop. Searching for Wesley’s sermons? Looking for a secluded reading nook in the stacks? Have 56 pages of reading for CH13 and need a stapler that can do the trick? or want a hug? Look no further.

Celia Wolff

…I can’t afford to buy all the books I need to use, and the Divinity School Library has almost all of them. The Divinity Library also takes purchase suggestions, and is a convenient pick up location for interlibrary loan requests.

…the York Room, with its neo-Gothic woodwork and lamps and heavy, dark-stained tables, feels like a place of ancient sacred learning, and it might rub off on people who study in it. Some days one could even imagine that it’s Hogwarts.

…there’s a steady rotation of beautiful art exhibits, like Debra Band’s illuminated Psalms.

…between the books, periodicals, electronic resources and”most of all” the people, there’s no better place on campus to pursue theological research.