Perkins Gallery
Through 13 December
Sustainability At Duke: leave your mark not your footprint

Photo byJon Gardiner/Duke Photography

The concept of sustainability as we know it today owes it origins to the small hamlets of 14th century Germany, where villagers relied on extracting a sustainable yield from collectively-owned forests. History is punctuated with examples of cultures that have flourished [...]

Midwife Jane Arnold practices through the OB/GYN Department at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and UNC Healthcare. Laura Micham, director of the Duke University Libraries’ Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, is one of her patients. At a recent appointment, Laura and Jane fell into conversation about a project Jane [...]

Last fall the Duke Libraries introduced Mobile Library, a website at http://library.duke.edu/mobile/ designed specifically for faculty, students and staff using an iPhone, Blackberry, or other handheld device. The site gives library hours and directions, contact information for the Perkins reference desk, and links to other mobile sites. Mobile Library also offers real-time updates on computer [...]

Perkins Gallery
March/May
Sarah P. Duke Gardens—Hanes’ Dream, Sarah’s Gift, our Treasure
To mark the Duke Gardens’ 75th anniversary, this exhibit explores topics such as the geological importance of the stone used to create the terraces, the work to save endangered plants, the significance of the Metasequoia trees, and the more recent work in association with Gardens [...]

Photo by Fayetteville Observer

Teacher, writer, and musician Bland Simpson will provide the evening’s entertainment for the 2009 Friends dinner, playing the piano and reading from and discussing his books. The event will be held on Wednesday, 13 May, at the Duke Gardens’ Doris Duke Center. Members of the Friends of the Duke University Libraries should [...]

Video interviews with 20th century cultural icons Louise Nevelson, Oscar de la Renta, Avery Fisher, Romare Bearden and Marian McPartland, among others, are now available from the Duke University Libraries on iTunesU and YouTube.
The collection’s more than 100 interviews with leading artists, musicians, architects, designers, photographers, directors, actors, writers and art collectors were conducted [...]

April 18
Wearing the Talk about Ethical Fashion
After graduating from Duke in 2007, Rachel Weeks went to Sri Lanka on a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her interest in ethical fashion, a subject she explored in her Women’s Studies senior honors thesis, “The Wonder Bra: Theorizing Globalization, Women’s Labor, and Consumption for Twenty-First Century Feminism,” a study [...]

Exhibits
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

Mellon Funds Design of Next-Generation Library System
Exhibits
Events
Visit the Libraries’ YouTube Channel
Duke Libraries Co-Sponsor of Human Rights Book Award
Guy Need Tie?
Duke Wins a Bronze in “Best College Library” Rankings
Going to the Source: Librarians Travel to Build Collections

Christof Galli

When you can get anything from apricots to zithers delivered to your front door (often with the option of overnight shipping) by shopping online, it may be difficult to believe that librarians sometimes have to leave their computers, their desks, home and country to buy books and other materials for the Libraries’ collections.
Yes, it [...]