Move Diary: Week 5

Week 5 feels like it’s been a big one. The stacks are filling up with manuscript boxes and books and feel less cavernous and more cozy. By the numbers it’s been a big week too. On Tuesday we hit an important milestone: 10,000 manuscript boxes landed in their new homes in the stacks. It’s been a good week for our books too. We’ve moved, Library of Congress-ified, and shelved nearly all 4,000 of our folios and all 20,000 duodecimos; octavos and quartos are next on our list. Some new formats started moving this week as well: 100 drawers worth of oversize flat files moved and about half or our papyrus collection made the journey too.

We also want to invite everyone to our open house on September 10th! You’ll have a chance to tour the new spaces and exhibits, meet and mingle with library staff, and learnhow the Rubenstein Library can support your research. Check out the details here.

Archival collections back from offsite and awaiting their new homes. Photo by Tracy Jackson.

Photo by Meghan Lyon

Sums up the Rubenstein move pretty well. Photo by Meghan Lyon.

New exhibit on Duke University history!

Exhibit cases have been installed in the Rare Book Room.

Henry’s been on the job in Conservation Services for five days and he is already on Rubenstein Library move duty. Here is he helping move the papyri.

From The Book of the Home. Photo by Kelly Wooten.

Some of those big flat files. Photo by Meghan Lyon.

Inlaid leather cover on Slapstick and Dumbbell : A Casual Survey of Clowns and Clowning.

‘Til next week!