[This is a guest post by Margaret Brill, Librarian for Britain/Ireland, Canada, Australasia, World History and Medieval/Renaissance Studies]
The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29th has provoked widespread interest in the British Monarchy here in the USA, and even in the Duke community. A frequent question is “Why doesn’t The [...]
Continue Reading →The Duke and Uni Duisburg-Essen German Department journal andererseits: Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies is one of two publications chosen as pilot projects for the Open Access journal publishing system (OJS) supported by Duke Libraries.
The Open Access (OA) Online Publishing movement advocates placing scholarly articles on the Internet and granting [...]
Continue Reading →Obituaries for “the book,” or at least the printed book, continue to pile up — for instance, this interesting pseudo-obituary and reframing of book as concept rather than container by Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired magazine. It’s a fascinating piece; for libraries, here’s a provocative (if familiar) sentence: “In the long run [...]
Continue Reading →[This is a guest post by Randy Riddle, an Academic Technology Consultant at Duke University. Randy's current work includes management of the CIT's Faculty Fellows program and exploring areas such as instructional uses for the iPad and e-books, timeline visualizations and 3d display technology]
The Center for Instructional Technology invites you to our annual [...]
Continue Reading →Our blog survey ends today so this is your last chance to tell us a little bit about your blog-reading habits and what you’d like to see when you visit Humanities@Duke University Libraries. In the sidebar you’ll see an orange button that links to our short survey – we hope you’ll take a few minutes [...]
Continue Reading →World-renowned artist, Makoto Fujiumura, was welcomed by Duke University on March 31st as a Visiting Artist by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies and as part of the Visiting Artist Residency in collaboration with Duke Divinity School.
Fujimura is an artist trained in Nihonga, a Japanese form of painting dating [...]
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