Fall 2009

Volume 23, No. 1

Fall 2009 cover image

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Exhibits | Events | and more...

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Collections Highlight

Ethiopic Manuscripts at Duke

Collections Highlight: Ethiopic Manuscripts at Duke

The Story of Two Books

The Writing of 444 Days: The Hostages Remember and Guests of the Ayatollah

The Story of Two Books

Fall 2009 issue

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Knowledge Bytes
The Story of Two Books
The Writing of 444 Days: The Hostages Remember and Guests of the Ayatollah
Digital Collections at Duke
Five articles on the Digital Collections program at Duke University Libraries.
Collections Highlight
Ethiopic Manuscripts at Duke

Spring 2009

The Center for Instructional Technology Celebrates A Decade of Progress

cit showcase faculty panelThe Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) and the Duke Libraries have much to celebrate about the Center’s first ten years. Since its founding in January 1999, CIT has increased innovation in University classrooms by providing training and project assistance to over 1000 Duke faculty, responding to thousands of inquiries, awarding over 170 grants and playing a leading role in several major University initiatives.


The Duke Libraries: “A Change Will Do You Good”

student in Perkins stacksThis inextricable tension between change and tradition at Duke has found its most tangible and visible manifestation in the Perkins Project, a phrase that inadequately describes the multi-phase, multi-year expansion and re-envisioning of the Duke University Libraries on West Campus.


Preserving Scholarship in a Digital World

image of ones and zerosConsider: The coolest thing to be done with your data will likely be thought of by someone else.


Collections Highlight: Celebrating and Preserving the Art of Documentary Filmmaking at the Full Frame Archive

frame from filmWhen the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival began in 1998 as the DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival, it changed Durham, North Carolina’s cultural landscape forever. During that first festival, a total of forty-five films were screened in three cinemas at Durham’s historic Carolina Theater.


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Woman undergoing a sonogramExhibits

Events

Red Clay Rambler Bland Simpson to Entertain the Duke Friends

New Digital Collection Showcases the Arts

Mobile Library

A Midwife, a Librarian and the North Carolina State Legislature


Knowledge Bytes

Knowledge Bytes – Internet Sites Selected for the Readers of Duke University Libraries



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