Reflections on a Duke alumna who contributed to the larger effort to put a man on the moon

Why might a digital humanities project consider creating author agreements?

Some of our more intriguing items show evidence of a previous owner’s fondness for them

Join us for a special discussion of the 2019 Duke Summer Reads selection

12th century Greek manuscript in the Rubenstein Library helps Elizabeth Schrader argue her case

Recommended reads from our New & Noteworthy and Current Literature collections

New exhibit will feature anti-American materials from around the world

Our Radio Haiti Project Archivist offers some parting thoughts and evocative expressions

Wednesday, June 27, 2018 – 12:00pm to 3:30pm

How the Libraries Support First-Generation Students at Duke

For the summer meeting, we’ll be discussing the 2019 Duke Summer Reads selection There There.

The Dawn Langley Simmons Papers and Transgender History

Breaking the Bundle: Analyzing Duke’s Journal Subscriptions with the Data+ Summer Program

A Q&A with Joanna Murdoch, a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department

Alumna Honors Dance Mentor and Duke Memories with Library Gift

Learn How to Navigate the databases provided by Duke University Libraries.

This post by Kaylee Alexander is part of a series on graduate students’ “Intern Experience” at Duke University Libraries. 

Today is the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birthday!

What History Can Tell Us Through a Single Document

Our University Archivist relates how, for two years, a con man posed as a member of a famous wealthy family

A Duke tradition got its start with a group of women wanting to extend their learning into their living space

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

“Among our special manuscripts you will find some of our most treasured wisdom and the ingredients for some of our most transformative discoveries.”

President Price extols the virtues of the library during his baccalaureate address to Duke graduates this weekend.

Recommended reads from our New & Noteworthy and Current Literature Collections

People come to Duke from all over the world, and while they’re here, they eat

Board games aren’t what they used to be, thank goodness

Working@Duke takes a tour of the Library Service Center

The latest collection spotlight in Lilly Library shines on the disappearing art of letter writing

For some Duke staff, final exams bring a change to work’s regular rhythm

A conversation with a Duke Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Huge collection includes many rare and noteworthy monuments of science fiction and fantasy

Until recently all copies of the text were thought to be lost

Brodhead returns to Duke to celebrate 200th anniversary of famed poet’s birth

How has the library impacted YOUR Duke experience?

Four different awards recognize excellence in graduate and undergraduate research

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

Recommended reads from our New & Noteworthy and Current Literature Collections

Treat yourself to a study bark!

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

How has the library impacted YOUR Duke experience?

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

How has the library impacted YOUR Duke experience?

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

How has the library impacted YOUR Duke experience?

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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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