Join Duke’s ninth president as we celebrate the 200th birthday of the “Good Gray Poet”

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Duke University Archives collects vital pieces of Duke’s story

Lilly librarian among 10 faculty and advisers honored by Trinity School of Arts & Sciences

Distinguished scholars explore the significance and potential of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection

Apply now for the Rudolph William Rosati Creative Writing Award

Catch up with some of the critically-acclaimed recordings that you may have heard about

Enjoy a free subscription to Ancestry.com, free DVD rentals and more

Join us for an event celebrating the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection and the work of our amazing staff!

Join us for a conversation with Haitian journalist and human rights activist Michéle Montas

Join us for a pop-up outside Vondy on Apr. 5, and make a button, and do a Whitman mad lib!

Adventures in artificial intelligence, Peruvian guerrillas, snow leopards, and more

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Our new collaboration with Duke Wellness is a dream come true

Come laugh with us as we close out the semester with Sedaris’s latest collection of essays

Inspired by UC’s decision to drop its “big deal” with Elsevier, other libraries debate following suit

A personal take on how digitizing historical documents can help us understand our own history

Join us for a free noontime concert featuring the music of Antonín Dvořák

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Our conservators worked with a local troop of Girl Scouts to help them earn their Book Arts Badge

What is the best superhero movie of all time? Fill out your bracket and vote!

Reflections on the lasting and international legacy of James Baldwin

150 years ago, Mendeleev published his Periodic Table of Elements. Feel some chemistry with these recommended reads!

Staying on campus? Join us for tea, cookies, and friendly library chit-chat

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After the Great War, thousands of refugee families and orphaned children were cared for by the Red Cross

It’s a great day to be a librarian, and a great day for scholars and scholarship

Heads up! We’ve found the phrenology reports of two famous craniums in Duke’s history.

Are you ready for love? Check out these book titles for your next perfect match!

Witness the complex history between U.S. wars and the black soldiers who fought in them.

Join us for the opening of a major new exhibit on the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection

Join us for a special reading and reception honoring this year’s winner, María McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

The Duke Common Experience Committee has narrowed it down to five books and wants your feedback

There is a lot of hidden labor in libraries and archives that makes so-called “discoveries” possible

Duke teams with neighbor universities to create a new online library catalog system

Recommended reads from our New & Noteworthy and Current Literature collections

New database includes thousands of oral history interviews with noteworthy African Americans

Join us as we celebrate the opening of a major exhibition on the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection

A new library exhibit marks the 50th anniversary of a moment that changed Duke

Across three decades of scholarship, Scott helped usher in the field of women’s history

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At the next meeting of the Low Maintenance Book Club, share your favorite reads from the past year

Former ambassador Jack Matlock is donating his extensive archives to Duke

Esri Story Maps lets you create interactive maps that incorporate text, images, video, and audio

New collection spotlight and exhibit offer a feast for the senses

From history to sci-fi, books from Duke authors to enliven the winter season

Physician’s records give us a sense of what life in New England was like from the 1870s-1900s

Recommended reads from our New & Noteworthy and Current Literature collections

Get a sneak-peek at a massive and fascinating new acquisition

Check out some of the books being read by KIE staff book clubs across campus

Join us for a special reception and program celebrating the recent acquisition of his literary archives

Check out textbooks for the 100 largest courses at Duke for up to three hours at a time

A team of engineering undergrads recently helped us overcome a basic design problem

Celebrate the intro of new material in the public domain by showing us what you can do with it!

Functionality remains the same, but we think you’ll enjoy the enhancements and updates

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Get news, updates, and edifying information from the center of intellectual life at Duke

A 1915 photo album offers a glimpse of the remote steppes of Central Asia a century ago

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An archivist bids farewell to Sam’s Quick Shop, which will close at the end of this year

A new movie has generated interest in a historic resource for African American travelers from the Jim Crow era

Book explores the bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia

We’ve pulled together a list of travel-themed books to get you through the holidays

The perfect place to escape any finals-related tension is on the 4th floor of Perkins Library

Have you heard about the “mane” event of finals season?

Updates will renew the oldest library on campus and enhance the student experience at Duke

Recommended reads from our New & Noteworthy and Current Literature Collections

We’re sorry, but we mustache you to stop and read this

Get help with research, writing, and de-stressing

Duke librarians travel abroad to build the university’s collections

It takes a village to transform scarce physical materials into something the whole world can use online

Describing a collection in English, Haitian Creole, and French poses some interesting library challenges

Recommended reads from our New & Noteworthy and Current Literature Collections

Join us for a special reception celebrating the opening of our new exhibit

A new series highlighting projects in our Digital Scholarship Services department

Join us for a free noontime concert featuring the Ciompi Quartet with Eliza Bagg, soprano

We’ve been working hard to highlight the importance and impact of research conducted at Duke

Installation follows the portrait’s formal unveiling last week

101 years ago, the U.S. officially entered WWI, and Trinity was feeling its effects

A new library exhibit illustrates the complexity of starting a university from scratch

A new documentary explores the unmet need for open access to research and science

Letters, books, and other writings that helped inspire the musical

Kelly Wooten is driven by the idea that everyone’s story deserves to be preserved.

A guest post by a researcher visiting our Human Rights Archive

Join us for a lunchtime exploration of our exhibit marking the centennial of the end of WWI

A roundup of titles worthy of attention, most of which are available in the library

So many film and novel adaptations, so little time!

We’re moving some of the portraits to make room for an exciting new addition!

Find out about efforts at Duke to make the fruits of research available as broadly as possible

Join us as we read a selection of short stories by the author of “The Haunting of Hill House”

Watch peer-reviewed videos of people doing real-world scientific experiments

Join us for a conversation with the long-time Random House editor and Duke alum

Recommended reads from our New & Noteworthy and Current Literature collections

Anybody can do it, and you don’t need to code. But there’s more to it than that.

The diary of a Duke professor and botanist offers some entertaining reading (and doodles)

Memorialize, honor or thank a special person through the “Honoring with Books” program

An easy way to help people affected by Hurricane Florence, and get rid of your fines!

Join the Libraries and Franklin Humanities Institute for a Faculty Bookwatch panel and discussion

How can the Duke Libraries support the needs of first-generation college students at Duke?

Duke’s employee giving campaign that supports local nonprofits begins Oct. 1