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This Valentine’s Day, Go on a Mystery Date with a Book

Mystery Date with a Book Rate Your Date Card
Don’t forget to “Rate Your Date” and let us know what you thought of your match. Look for the rating card included with your book, and return it for a chance to win a library swag bag!

Hey, baby, are you overdue for a good book? Because you’ve got fine written all over you.

Aw, yeah. A new year means new books to fall for, and you’re in luck because this Valentine’s Day “Mystery Date with a Book” is back!

Currently single, in the reading sense? In a relationship with another author? Or is it “complicated”? Oh, honey, we’re here to help.

Check out our Mystery Date with a Book display next to the Perkins Library Service Desk, February 10-17, and let us match you up with a cute little number guaranteed to improve your “circulation.”

Our librarians have hand-picked some of their favorite literary infatuations. Don’t judge these books by their covers. We’ve got a little somethin-somethin’ for everyone! Each title comes wrapped in paper with a tantalizing teaser. Will you get fiction or nonfiction? Mystery or history? Fantasy or thriller? You won’t know until you find somewhere private and “get between the covers,” if you know what we’re talking about.

(Uh, oh. Was that you logging onto our wifi just now? Because we think we felt a connection.)

If you don’t have the hots for your book, no problem. Simply return it to the library. Its feelings won’t be hurt.

Either way, be sure to let us know what you think. Each book comes with a “Rate Your Date” card. Use it as a bookmark. Then drop it in our Mystery Date with a Book box when you return your book to Perkins, and you’ll automatically be entered to win a library swag bag. (Swoon!)

Okay, sorry-not-sorry for all the library puns. We’ll put them on hold.

Just get your pretty little self to Perkins and go on a mystery date with a book. You might just get hooked on a favorite writer!

For even more fun, make your own Valentine with us this Thursday, Feb. 13, using vintage images from the Rubenstein Library!

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Introducing Full Access to The Atlantic Online

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Earlier this month we announced that all Duke users with a NetID now have access to the complete New York Times through the Duke University Libraries.

Now here’s some MORE news you can use. Current Duke students, faculty, and staff also have free access to the complete Atlantic online.

The Duke University Libraries’ all-access subscription includes the latest articles in print and online, the Atlantic Archive, newsletters, podcasts, videos, crossword, and more.

We regularly receive requests for the Atlantic for personal and classroom use and are pleased to make it available to the Duke community. The magazine has a long, distinguished history as a cultural reporter and opinion-maker since its start in 1857.

To activate your access, follow these simple steps:

  1. Go to TheAtlantic.com or download the Atlantic app from the App Store or Google Play Store
  2. Click “Sign In”
  3. Under “Accessing a group subscription?” select “Duke University” in the drop-down menu
  4. Sign in with your NetID
  5. Enjoy!

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Access the Complete New York Times Online through Duke Libraries

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Here’s some news you can use. All current Duke students, faculty, and staff now have free access to the complete New York Times online through the Duke University Libraries. The new all-access subscription includes everything the New York Times offers, including current news and archives, the NYT News App, Games (including Wordle, Spelling Bee, the Crossword, etc.), Cooking, Wirecutter, the Athletic, and over 20 newsletters available to subscribers.

Get started in just a few quick steps.

Access through your computer browser

  1. Go to nytimes.com and click on “Log In”
  2. Select “Continue with work or school single sign-on”
  3. Enter your Duke email and sign in via NetID

Access through the New York Times app

  1. Go to nytimes.com in your browser
  2. Follow the same steps above to log in using SSO with your NetID
  3. Select Account Settings
  4. Select “Create” under Password
  5. This will send a reset password link to your Duke email
  6. Set a new password. DO NOT use your Duke NetID password.
  7. Download and open the New York Times app
  8. Click on “Log In or Register”
  9. Type in your netid@duke.edu and click “Continue”
  10. Use the new password you created above to log in.

What if I already have a paid subscription to the New York Times?

You can cancel your subscription and set up a free account through the Duke Libraries and enjoy the same level of access.

To cancel your paid subscription:

1. Log in to your account
2. Click on Account in the top-right corner and then Subscription Overview
3. Select Cancel your Subscription or Manage your Subscription, then the follow the directions.

NOTE: Depending on how you originally signed up for a New York Times account (through iTunes, for example), the steps for canceling your subscription may be different than those above. Visit the New York Times Help Center website for other methods of canceling your subscription.

After your paid subscription expires, follow the steps at the top of this post to set up your free subscription through the Duke University Libraries.

What if I have a free (limited) account with the New York Times, just for Games?

If you currently have a free (limited) New York Times account for playing Wordle and other games, you can still change to an all-access account through the Duke Libraries. But there are a few extra steps to take:

  1. Log in to your account
  2. Click on Account in the top-right corner and then Account Settings
  3. Select Email and Settings
  4. Click “Connect” next to Work or School
  5. A pop-up window will open, prompting you to enter your netid@duke.edu email address
  6. The window will redirect to Duke’s NetID login page for you to authenticate
  7. After logging in with your NetID, you will be rerouted to nytimes.com
  8. If your New York Times account is under a personal email, you will need to change it to your Duke NetID email (netid@duke.edu).

Switching Accounts and Saved Data

If you already have a personal paid or free New York Times account and you decide to switch, you will likely lose your data or saved files in Games, Cooking, and other sections, when you set up a new account through the Duke University Libraries.

Troubleshooting

Some users have reported being prompted to login again to view articles, recipes, and other content fully, even after setting up their free individual account. If that happens to you, simply navigate to this page on nytimes.com to activate your access using your NetID.

Need Help?

We’re always available by chat or email to answer any questions or help you with access.

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Access to Major US Newspapers

Hello again! We at the library would like to offer you a quick guide for accessing some major US newspapers via Duke Libraries. Over the past few weeks, we’ve made a series of posts on accessing the New York Times (available here, here, and here), so feel free to take a look at those posts if you’re wondering about that paper specifically. This week, we’re going to offer recommendations on accessing the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. For each paper, we’ll list the easiest ways to access current and historical issues. For all of these links, you’ll need a NetID.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Investigation Exposes Broken Promises In Georgia's Senior Care Industry

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: If you’re looking to browse current issues of the AJC, we recommend using U.S. Newsstream. Using this link, anyone with a NetID has access to every issue of the AJC from November 7th, 2001 to the present. Note that articles are available in plaintext only. If you’re looking for historical issues of the AJC (including the issues of one of its predecessors, the Atlanta Constitution), we recommend using ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Using this link, you’ll see eight groupings of historical AJC material, providing access to issues from 1868 to 1984. If you click on an article in one of these groups, you’ll typically view it as a pdf, displaying the article as it appeared in the original print newspaper.

Chicago Tribune | Classifieds

Chicago Tribune: As with the AJC, we recommend using U.S. Newsstream to browse current issues of the Chicago Tribune. Using this link, anyone with a NetID has access to the Tribune from December 4th, 1996 to the present. For historical issues, we also recommend ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Using this link, you’ll see that this database has seven groupings of historical Tribune issues, providing cumulative access to issues from April 23rd, 1849 to December 31st, 2011. As with the historical issues of the AJC, too, you will typically be able to view these articles as pdfs (U.S. Newsstream access only contains plaintext displays of current articles).

Los Angeles Times | Newspaper Target Marketing Coalition, Inc.

Los Angeles Times: Using U.S. Newsstream to access the LA Times, anyone with a NetID can access issues from December 4th, 1996 to the present with this link, in much the same way as accessing the AJC and the Tribune. Historical issues are also best accessed the same way, using ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Using this link, you’ll see four groupings of historical LA Times issues, providing pdfs of articles in every issue of the paper from December 4th, 1881 to December 31st, 2012.

Washington Post online now available to Stanford | Stanford Libraries

Washington Post: Our recommendations for browsing current and historical issues of the Post are much the same as the previous three newspapers in this post. Using this U.S. Newsstream link, anyone with a NetID can access issues of the Post from December 4th, 1996 to the present. ProQuest Historical Newspapers, meanwhile, contains pdfs of Post issues and their articles from December 6th, 1877 to December 31st, 2004. Using this link, you’ll see these issues split up into five groups, sorted by date.