Dr. D. Moody Smith speaks in the York Room, Oct 29th, 12:30pm October 23, 2009
Posted by Luba Zakharov in : Uncategorized , add a commentPlease join us for a special event in the York Room on October 29 at 12:30pm to hear Dr. D. Moody Smith talk about working in the library as a student, ‘back in the day.’ Dr. Smith is the George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Duke University Divinity School and is a recipient of the “Library Student Library Worker Hall of Fame” which is an honor bestowed on some graduates of Duke who, as students, worked in the Divinity School Library. This list also includes the Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune, founder of the Faith Trust Institute and an ordained pastor of the United Church of Christ, and Dr. Jerry Campbell, President and Professor of Theological Bibliography at Claremont School of Theology and an ordained elder of The United Methodist Church. This final event will close this year’s Theological Libraries Month celebration. The winner of the 2009 ‘Why I Should Come to the Divinity School Library’ contest will also be announced. A light lunch will be served.
Contest: “Top Ten Reasons Why” (Deadline, Sunday, Oct 25th) October 22, 2009
Posted by Luba Zakharov in : Uncategorized , add a commentWhat is your favorite reason to come to the Divinity School Library? Let us know by entering our contest here. Winners and prizes will be announced after Dr. D. Moody Smith’s remarks at the Library Workers Hall of Fame event on October 29th at 12:30pm.
Here are some entries from years gone by to get your creative juices flowing:
“Someone told me that there’s a hundred dollar bill hidden in one of the books.”
“Studying in the York Room will let you get to live out your fantasy of being one of the Harry Potter characters and attending Hogwarts!”
“Stanley Hauerwas said so.”
“I’ve always liked mazes.”
Enter as many times as you like.
Good luck!
What do librarians do in the summer? July 29, 2009
Posted by Luba Zakharov in : Uncategorized , add a commentWe take the ‘comfortable shoe’ stereotype to task by wearing sandals with sweaters to offset the air conditioned temperature in the stacks and the triple digit heat index outside.
We put away books.
We work on projects whose end seems nowhere in sight, remembering the words our mentors told us: “library work is like emptying the ocean with a teaspoon.”
We wonder why we’ve decided to do this for a living.
We prepare for the summer heat with linen and hemp clothes using wrinkled as an excuse to stay cool.
We find the books you’ve lost.
We stay current, learning new tools that will give you better access to our collections.
We wear our hair differently.
We prepare to teach workshops in the Fall and Spring.
We walk the stacks.
We creatively team together on projects like shifting books to make room for new ones, checking to see that the online record, the LC classification system and the barcodes match.
We work with patrons who come to us in smaller groups.
We bend our brains around theology by reading new ways of knowing faith. This keeps us sharp and ready to tackle the kinds of questions we hear from you.
We get our cars tuned up or repaired.
We eat lunch.
We go to summer conferences.
We take vacations, leave the country, inhale salty ocean breezes and wait for you to come and study in the library.
Duke Divinity School Juried Arts Exhibit March 10, 2009
Posted by Luba Zakharov in : Exhibits, Uncategorized , comments closedThe New Creation Arts Group and Duke Initiatives in Theology and the
Arts present the first juried art exhibit at Duke Divinity School,
March 20th – May 1st, 2009.
The theme of the exhibit, “Reconciling All Things,” is based on the
book, Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace
and Healing by Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice from the Duke
Divinity Center for Reconciliation.
The purpose of the exhibit is to promote theological engagement on
this theme and to honor the labor and craft of the artistic endeavor
as a Christian vocation and discipline. The exhibit will be judged
by Pedro Lasch, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts in
the Duke Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies.
Art entries for the exhibit are open to Duke Divinity School
students, faculty, staff, alumni and their immediate families and
will be received March 16 and 17 in the Divinity Student Council
office. The artist’s reception will be held on Monday, March 30th
from 5pm – 7pm in the zero level of the Westbrook and Gray Buildings.
This event is sponsored by the Divinity School Arts Committee,
Divinity Student Council, Duke Center for Reconciliation, Professor
Jeremy Begbie, Divinity School Women’s Center, Creation Care
Connections, New Creation Arts Group, Sacred Worth, and Fred and Jami
Moss Wise.
Click here for submission and contact information.
Sermons and Orations January 14, 2009
Posted by Luba Zakharov in : Uncategorized , add a commentIn an effort to preserve the cultural events of America’s history, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress has opened the “Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project” (www.loc.gov/folklife/inaugural/ ). This project is seeking to collect sermons preached between January 16 -25, 2009. The AFC is looking for a wide representation of sermons and orations, in a variety of formats, to be donated to the Library of Congress in this ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity. See their website if you’re interested.
