Move Diary: Week 3

We’re 1/3 of the way through the move, huzzah! Here’s a look at what week 3 brought.

Books have been getting new labels to show off their new Library of Congress call numbers:

Cataloger Lauren Reno scans books from our History of Medicine Collections. Photo by Rachel Ingold.

We’ve been finding lots of beautiful books during the process:

Photo by Kate Collins

Photo by Kelly Wooten

Photo by Kelly Wooten

Photo by Meghan Lyon

As well as fun doodles in the margins:

Photo by Amy McDonald

There were some more amusing finds as well:

Reliving the early 2000s with an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog. Photo by Meghan Lyon

The wrong kind of sports in The Mother’s Encyclopedia, 1942. Photo by Kelly Wooten

Bad Girl and Good Girl in juxtaposition. Photo by Kelly Wooten.

True Blue Soda! Photo by Tracy Jackson

Archival collections continued to fill our new shelves:

Collections from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture. Photo by Kelly Wooten.

Boxes of University Archives material. Photo by Liz Adams

Our collections weren’t the only thing moving this week. Portraits of Duke presidents and other figures in Duke History moved back to the Gothic Reading Room.

Portrait of Terry Sanford leaving our temporary space for the Gothic. Photo by Amy McDonald

Horace Trumbauer, Campus Architect for East and West campus. Photo by Beth Doyle.

The Duke Family is back in the Gothic Reading Room! Photo by Val Gillispie

Last portrait being hung in the Gothic Reading Room–President Douglas Knight. Photo by Val Gillispie

We also got to see others spaces in our new home come together:

Work area for Research Services Staff. Photo by Amy McDonald

Cute little bench nook. Photo by Amy McDonald.