Updates to Our Services
- Rubenstein Library Reading Room: Our reading room is currently closed to all non-Duke users. Duke users with a Duke Unique ID (DUID) and a Duke ID card can request an appointment to use the reading room starting September 14, 2020.
- Research and Reference Services: Staff are available to answer questions about our collections and services and help you identify digital material in our collections or at other repositories for your research paper or project. Ask a Rubenstein Librarian.
- Instruction: Rubenstein Librarians are available to provide online instruction and assist in designing assignments using our digital collections and digitized items from other repositories. We also provide a number of openly available teaching modules created by Rubenstein Librarians. Learn more about our support for online teaching and learning.
- Reproductions: Digitization services are available to all users. You may submit a reproduction order here. Order timelines are extended, a staff member will be in touch to confirm the timeline.
- Exhibitions: The Mary Duke Biddle Room, The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room, and the Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery are closed until 2021. For more information and updates on other exhibition spaces please visit our website. We will work with students, faculty, and staff to maintain the schedule for future exhibitions, which will depend on the resources available over the coming months. Please contact Meg Brown if you have questions about exhibitions.
Options for Digital Research
Browse or Search Duke Digital Collections
- Duke Digital Collections brings together digitized photographs, advertisements, texts, films, audio & more from our collections. It features more than 100,000 items from 861 collections.
- Interested in Duke’s history? Check out our list of resources on Duke history and collections of digitized Duke University materials.
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Not finding what you need? Ask us!
Browse or Search Other Digital Primary Sources
- America’s Historical Newspapers (Duke NetID required)
America's Historical Newspapers offers searchable digital facsimiles of thousands of titles from all 50 states. With eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, and obituaries, this collection chronicles the evolution of American culture and daily life from 1690 to the recent past.
- Early English Books Online (Duke NetID required)
Page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700
- Digital Public Library of America
Discover 36,807,992 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States. - For more options, please consult the guide to Primary Source Databases available through the Duke Libraries (Duke NetID required).
