It’s rush hour in Perkins Library and the day is just getting started. If you haven’t visited us in a while, we hope you will soon. Even after you graduate, we’ll always be your library.

Doris Duke's papers reveal a complex picture of an adventurous, intelligent, and independent woman who refused to be defined by social expectations or wealth.

In 2009, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation transferred Doris Duke's personal papers to Duke University. It is a collection that has enduring value to the university, its community and researchers.

The Verne and Tanya Roberts Conservation Lab

Library books don’t always age gracefully. Eventually every book, map, photo, and cherished manuscript in Duke’s hallowed stacks will succumb to age, use, or chemical processes. But here in the Libraries, we’re working hard to halt the ravages of time.

Marvin Tillman

Welcome to Marvin's world, where it's always 50 degrees with 30% humidity.

Duke Alumni Association

The search for answers doesn’t end with college. So why should your library privileges?

Catherine Shreve

Librarian for Public Policy and Political Science
Personal Librarian, Jarvis Residence Hall
Bleeds Duke Blue

Canon Brodar, T’13

Braxton Craven Scholar
Biology and Philosophy Double Major
Member, Duke University Libraries Undergraduate Advisory Board
Executive Committee Member, Friends of the Duke University Libraries
Cameron Crazie

I have spent many a late night over the past four years in my little nook of Perkins Library, writing papers. I would travel to the stacks to pick out the appropriate texts then return to my spot, process the research, and write a work of my own. This was my type of creation, and the library was part of it. It not only provided the necessary resources, but also served as the actual space where I could turn my thoughts into words.

I imagine that being in the same intellectual soil that had cultivated my father’s mind, tilled over a generation and re-seeded with another Corey, provided the clarity and calm to write about the indescribable.

Just because you graduate doesn't mean you have to leave your library. It's one of the few parts of Duke you can take with you!

My love affair with Duke University Libraries started in 1978 at Lilly Library.

As a founding member of the Duke University Library Advisory Board, I look back over the Board's twenty-year history with enormous pride because during that time I have witnessed a phenomenal transformation, indeed, a rebirth of Duke's libraries.

For all of the incredible things that Duke gave me throughout my undergraduate career: skills, knowledge, incredible relationships with incredible people, I have to say that it's a great feeling that the Special Collections Library at Duke gave me the tools necessary to put quality research together to give back to academia.

"The Libraries are my opportunity."
Jill Katte, Digital Collections Program Coordinator