Blogs Featured Posts (non-pipes)

For the first time, theses and dissertations from the department are now available online

Visualize, manage, and map your data with our full slate of library workshops

Meet the curators and ask the experts everything you ever wanted to know about insects!

How a solar eclipse confirmed the Trinity College president’s perfect timing

Darkness is coming. Take a look at some earlier eclipse chasers in our collections.

A selection of recent books by Duke faculty on slavery, extremism, and the pursuit of racial equity

Who is depicted in the portal to the Chapel, and what’s the backstory?

The Civil Rights movement changed the way advertisers saw the African American market

A small taste (or sip) of history, inspired by our historical advertising collections

Don’t all 8th-graders love translating the personal papers of Nobel Prize- winning economists?

Trustees’ decision Aug. 3, 1892, allowed women to be admitted as full degree candidates

Cabinets of curiosities were the fascinating precursors to modern-day museums

Check out photos from around the Libraries and tag us to share yours!

A look at some eye-catching new additions to our collections

What can multispectral imaging teach us about historic inks and how they react with paper?

The upsides and downsides of digitizing obsolete media formats

Recommended reads from our New and Noteworthy and Current Literature Collections

A visiting Rubenstein Library researcher shares some fascinating finds

Research Services Librarian is “a rare find”

What can the 1960s struggle for voting rights teach us about self-determination and democracy today?