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The Divinity School Library continues to have three Kindles 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. All <a href=”http://find.library.duke.edu/results.php?facets=0+206489&searchtype=Call+Number&query=kindle&type=books”>Kindle titles</a> are listed in the library catalog. In [...]
Continue Reading →Artist, Nathaniel Hester, will speak about his work at a reception held at the Divinity School Library on Wednesday, February 2 at 12:20pm. Refreshments will be served. The exhibit, “A Stone in Aberdaron,” a collaborative bookmaking project of Daniel Tobin (Interim Dean of the School of Arts; Emerson College) and Nathaniel Hester (MDiv, [...]
Continue Reading →Duke has extended the severe weather policy through 7pm this evening. Therefore, the Divinity School Library will be closed all day on Tuesday, January 11. We hope to resume regular semester hours tomorrow.
Continue Reading →Due to the weather and road conditions, the Divinity School Library will open at 10:00am on Tuesday, January 11th. Please drive safely!
Continue Reading →Due to the inclement weather, the Divinity School Library will be closing at 7:00pm on Thursday, December 16th. Please use caution in traveling this evening.
Continue Reading →A Stone in Aberdaron is a collaborative bookmaking project of Daniel Tobin (Interim Dean of the School of Arts; Emerson College) and Nathaniel Hester (MDiv, Duke Divinity School, ’14) which explores the territory of the sublime and the landscape of sacred architecture. Tobin’s poem (on display with Hester’s paintings and etchings) [...]
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Thank you for submitting your favorite reason to come to the Divinity School Library in our ‘Top Ten Reasons Why’ contest. The winner this year is Kathy Randall for her entry, “At night, when it is quiet, you can feel the other readers who have gone before you in the stacks.’
Other [...]
Continue Reading →During the month of October, Duke Divinity School Library has been celebrating Theological Libraries Month. On October 20th we invite you to a screening and discussion of Elizabeth Gilbert’s (author of Eat, Pray, Love), 19 minute, TED Talk on Nurturing the Creative.
The panelists for our discussion include David Arcus, Jason Byassee [...]
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Back in the day, 3″ x 5″ inch library cards were hand written/typed by catalogers and later machine processed to provide a record of what the library held in its collection. The Divinity Library Card Catalog Exhibit opens Theological Libraries Month with art entries made with twenty library catalog cards. This exhibit [...]
The new Card Catalog Challenge is a ‘green’ event using twenty library catalog cards to create an art piece with the same cards that are now part of our online public access catalog. Back in the day, these cards were hand written/typed by catalogers and later machine processed to provide a record of what the [...]
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