In the online catalog choose the "Duke Libraries" tab and limit your search to "Rubenstein Library".

Additional help in locating information in this closed stack library is available from the Research Services staff in 103 Perkins. These reference librarians answer questions, provide consultations on research topics, and assist with use of additional finding aids for the materials.

Rare Books & Manuscripts

The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library has over 15 million manuscript items ranging from ancient papyri to contemporary letters, diaries, and organizational archives. There are over 200,000 printed books and pamphlets, as well as broadsides, maps, music and newspapers. Notable printed holdings include Confederate imprints, southern literature, African American autobiographies, emblem books, eighteenth-century British political pamphlets, English literature, utopian literature, Wesleyana and Methodistica, German Baroque literature and German Americana, German Nazi imprints, American comic books, the American Newspaper Repository, and the Mazzoni collection of rare Italian Imprints.

Other Rubenstein Library materials

The Rubenstein Library administers several specialized centers that provide extensive documentation in their fields. These include:

• The Archive of Documentary Arts
• The Human Rights Archive
• The John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture
• The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
• The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture