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The Divinity School Library is pleased to promote a new research guide devoted to Biblical Commentary from Historic Sources. The guide includes historic commentaries, historical works with scriptural indexes, and scriptural indexes to the Patristics.

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It’s on! The Library staff hopes to inspire your creativity by posting our own video. Come on, give it your best shot. Give us another reason to come to the Divinity School Library by entering our contest.

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Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

On September 29, 2011 By

The first fruits of a partnership between the Israel Museum and Google are now available as the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls. Five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project at this stage including the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, [...]

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As of July 5th, the library catalog will add some new features and improvements. The new interface includes the display of related subject searches, a “shopping cart” feature for adding multiple citations, a new view of holdings at other area research libraries, and a significant improvement in speed. In addition to the updated library [...]

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If you haven’t looked at the Duke Digital Collections in a while (or ever!), check out their new website where you can search among the digitized books, sheet music, advertisements, photographs, and more.  Our digital collections provide you with digital versions of library materials as well as tools to [...]

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The Divinity School Library is proud to announce the acquisition of our 400,000th book, the Encyclopedia of Religion in America now available in the Divinity School Reference Room at BL 2520 .E52 2010 and online. The Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference source on the historical development of faiths in North America and religion’s intersection [...]

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The Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition is now available online and in print at Z253 .C57 in the Ready Reference shelves near the Reference Desk in the Divinity School Library. The 16th edition provides additional guidance in formatting citations of electronic publications. Since many continue to work on projects that require use of [...]

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Fall 2010 Newsletter

On August 24, 2010 By

Welcome to the Divinity School Library, and best wishes to you for fall 2010! We thought you should know about some changes we’ve made to improve the library and to make it easier for you to use. Please read on!

1. Research help @ the Divinity School Library

2. York Room changes

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A grant-funded project will help digitize and make available histories and other documents of local religious bodies as well as publications of larger denominations.
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The Divinity School Library has three Kindles now available for two-week loan to all members of the Duke community. Titles licensed for these Kindles include a number of standard textbooks used in the Divinity School, Divinity School faculty publications, and some reference works. Through a special grant from the International Collaboration Committee of the American [...]

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