Exhibits
Hear the Exhibit!
A performance highlighting the Special Collections Library's Civil War music as seen in the exhibit "Songs of Glory, Songs of Sorrow: The Civil War in Music," will be presented September 12, 2008 in the Special Collections Library's Biddle Rare Book Room for more information see: Echoes of the Past: Sounds of the American Civil War
New Photograph Exhibit
Come experience a photographic career circling the globe from Massachusetts to Iraq, and covering diverse topics from peace rallys to high school proms. Olive Pierce July-December 2008.
Participate in an Exhibit
The Duke University Library would like to invite you to be a part of the exhibit "Pivotal Books/Personal Reflection" by sharing a book that has been pivotal in your life-send us an email or a youtube link-and we will share your book! See the virtual exhibit
Currently on Display in the Libraries
Olive Pierce: Forty Years of Photographs (1963-2003)
Olive Pierce's photographs reflect a spirit of community. This retrospective of black and white gelatin silver prints documents life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as in Maine fishing communities. A lifelong political activist, Pierce's photographs of Iraqis under U.S. ecomonic sanctions in 1999 and Maine citizens demonstrating in 2003 for and against involvement in Iraq make the connection between the local and global communities.
Start: 4 August 2008 | End: 14 December 2008 | Special Collections Gallery
Songs of Glory, Songs of Sorrow: The Civil War in Music
The American Civil War remains the most devastating war in United States history, with deaths numbering about 618,000–more than in all the nation’s other wars combined, from the Revolutionary War through the Iraq War. This exhibit features sheet music and broadside verse expressing the triumphs and tragedies of the war’s battles, grieving mothers, soldier boys, flags, military officers, and even humor. Themes specific to the Civil War yet universal to all armed conflicts remind us of the high cost paid when peaceful solutions and diplomacy fail to win the day.
Start: July 2008 | End: October 2008 | Rare Book Room Hall Cases
Pivotal Books/Personal Reflections
This exhibit explores the intimate nature of books. Members of the Duke University community shared essays concerning books that have had an important effect on their life or career. Also included in the exhibit are items from RBMSCL that showcase unique and interesting examples of the special relationship of "books" and their readers.
Start: 11 August 2008 | End: 10 October 2008 | Perkins Gallery
Tuberculosis: Past, Present Future
Posters have been used from the early 20th century as an effective educational and fundraising tool in the campaign against TB. The idea for Tuberculosis: Past, Present, Future was prompted by Dr. Barbara C. Newborg's gift of ten German post World War I posters which are prominently featured in the exhibit. This exhibit is on display through September 2008 in the Lower Lobby outside of the History of Medicine Reading Room.
Start: July 2008 | End: September 30, 2008 | History of Medicine, Medical Center Library Exhibit Space
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