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library.duke.edu. Duke University Libraries is the library system of Duke University, serving the university's students and faculty. The Libraries collectively hold some 6 million volumes. [1] The collection contains 17.7 million manuscripts, 1.2 million public documents, and tens of thousands of films and videos.
Duke Libraries includes the Perkins, Bostock, and Rubenstein Libraries on West Campus, the Lilly and Music Libraries on East Campus, the Pearse Memorial Library at Duke Marine Lab, and the separately administered libraries serving the schools of business, divinity, law, medicine, and Duke Kunshan University.
Joseph Penn Breedlove (1874–1955) was an American librarian and author. In 48 years of service, he oversaw the growth of the Duke University Library (originally Trinity College) from a single room in 1898 to millions of books and documents in modern facilities at his retirement in 1946. He was a founding member of the North Carolina Library ...
David Sean Ferriero (/ ˈfɛrioʊ /; [1] born December 31, 1945) is an American librarian and library administrator, who served as the 10th Archivist of the United States. He previously served as the director of the New York Public Library [2] and as the University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs at Duke University. [3]
The history of Duke University began when Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school in Randolph County, North Carolina (in the present-day town of Trinity), was founded in 1838. [1] The school was renamed to Union Institute Academy in 1841, Normal College in 1851, and to Trinity College in 1859. Finally moving to Durham in 1892, the ...
East Campus. East Campus is part of Duke University 's campus in Durham, North Carolina. East Campus, along with West Campus, make up most of Duke 's main campus. The campus follows the Georgian architecture style, [1] making it distinct from West Campus. Currently, East Campus is the exclusive residential home to first-year students. [1]
Pages in category "Duke University Libraries" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University contains over one hundred manuscripts — in both roll and codex form — dating from the 9th to the 17th century. The collection as a whole is named in his honor and includes manuscripts collected and donated by ...