Currently viewing the category: "Franklin Research Center"

E-Records in the Reading Room

On April 25, 2012 By

Special Collections Library reading rooms often require special equipment to view non-traditional record formats such as VHS players, cassette players, microfilm readers, etc. The Rubenstein Library recently welcomed a new piece to the set: a desktop computer.

Though public computers have been available in our reference room for a long time to assist in finding [...]

Continue Reading →

“From Blackface to Blaxploitation”

On April 6, 2012 By

Dates: 2 April- 30 July 2012
Location and Time: Rare Book Room cases during library hours
Contact Information: Jennifer Thompson, 919-660-5922 or jennifer2.thompson(at)duke.edu

African Americans have had a long and rather complex history in the American motion picture industry. The exhibit “From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Representations [...]

Continue Reading →

Charles N. Hunter Papers: Full of Surprises

On February 22, 2012 By

When I began processing the Charles N. Hunter Papers, I had just completed my work on the N.C. Mutual Collection, which was full of incredible material concerning Durham’s Black business community throughout the 1900s. The Hunter papers [...]

Continue Reading →

Rights! Camera! Action!: Wetback

On January 19, 2012 By

Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: The Garage, Smith Warehouse Bay 4, 114 S. Buchanan St. (map)
Contact information: Patrick Stawski, 919-660-5823 or patrick.stawski(at)duke.edu

Join Rights! Camera! Action! and our special co-sponsor Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) for a screening of Arturo Perez Torres’ “ Continue Reading →

New Year, New Acquisitions

On January 12, 2012 By

What better way to ring in the new year (okay, we’re a couple of weeks late) than with a roundup of exciting new acquisitions from the second half of 2011?   All of these amazing resources will be available for researchers in the Rubenstein Library in 2012 and for years to come!

Powell Expedition Photograph Album: [...]

Continue Reading →

From the Rubenstein Wire

On January 10, 2012 By

Before we dive into another exhilarating semester, it’s high time we caught up on some recent articles about the Rubenstein Library and its collections.

In the Lens blog at the New York Times, David Gonzalez explores William Gedney’s photographs of the Myrtle Avenue El in New York.

University Archivist Valerie Gillispie was [...]

Continue Reading →

Instruction Round-Up!

On December 9, 2011 By

This was another busy semester for Rubenstein librarians, who taught or co-taught more than 70 classes between September and early December! The classes ranged widely in subject, from feminist comics to medical history.

One exciting event, nicknamed “Anatomy Day,” brought 100 medical students to the Gothic Reading Room to investigate historical anatomical atlases and other [...]

Continue Reading →

A Busy Week in Archives Education

On November 15, 2011 By

Rubenstein Library staff visited our neighbors in Chapel Hill last week to speak on two panels sponsored by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists (SCOSAA).  Jenn Thompson, the Research Services and Collection Development Librarian for the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African [...]

Continue Reading →

Travel Grant Season is Open!

On November 2, 2011 By

Wish you were here? We do too! The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is now accepting applications for our 2012-2013 travel grants.

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture, and the Continue Reading →

Haunted Library Screamfest

On October 25, 2011 By

Date: Halloween, Monday, October 31, 2011
Time: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Location: Rare Book Room
Contact Information: Rachel Ingold, 919-684-8549 or rachel.ingold(at)duke.edu

Have you ever wandered around a library’s stacks in the dark? Or wondered what might go bump in an archival box?

Stop by the Rubenstein Library’s Rare Book Room for a [...]

Continue Reading →