Duke University Libraries is the

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Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

, serving the university's students and faculty. The Libraries collectively hold some 6 million

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s. The collection contains 17.7 million

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s, 1.2 million public documents, and tens of thousands of

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s. The Duke University Libraries consists of the William R. Perkins Library, Bostock Library, and the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library on West Campus; the Lilly Library and Music Library on East Campus, and the Pearse Memorial Library at the Duke Marine Lab. It also includes the Library Service Center, library offices located in the Smith Warehouse, as well as a few other departments. The

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s have separately administrated libraries: the Goodson Law Library, Duke Divinity School Library, Ford Library at Fuqua School of Business, and the Medical Center Library & Archives. The Biological and Environmental Sciences Library was formerly part of the system but in 2009 it closed permanently.

Libraries and departments

William R. Perkins Library

The Perkins Library system, opened in 1930 as the General Library and named in 1966 for Duke Endowment trustee William Robertson Perkins, has nine branches on campus.

Roy J. Bostock Library

Bostock Library, named for board of trustees member Roy J. Bostock, opened in the fall of 2005 as part of the University's strategic plan to supplement Duke's libraries. It contains 87 study carrels, 517 seats, and 96 computer stations, as well as of shelving for overflow books from Perkins Library as well as for new collections.

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds more than 350,000 rare books, 10,000 manuscript collections, and extensive collections of photography, film, and audio, as well as a major collection of Confederate imprints. The library was named after board of trustees member and alumnus David M. Rubenstein in 2011.About the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Retrieved on July 27, 2020.

Divinity School Library

The Divinity School Library is located next to Perkins Library in the Duke Divinity School. It contains 400,000 volumes, as well as various periodicals and other materials to support the study of theology and religion. The library is the host institution for the Religion in North Carolina Digitization project, a collaborative digitization project with

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University (WFU) is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The R ...

and the

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References

* Land, William Goodfellow and George Washington Flowers. (1939)
''The centennial exhibit of the Duke university library, consisting of material from the George Washington Flowers memorial collection of books and documents relating to the history and literature of the South, April 5-June 5, 1939.''
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University.

External links

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