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Borrow Items
The Duke Alumni Card provides borrowing privileges to the following libraries:
To register for borrowing privileges, you must bring your Duke Alumni ID to the service desk at Perkins, Lilly, Music, or Divinity Library during normal business hours. If you have any questions or would like to schedule a time to register please email us.
PLEASE NOTE: Materials may not be removed from the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, but visitors can view materials in the Rubenstein reading room .
Other Resources
Duke alumni have access to many of the services used by students, such as:
- Ask questions of reference librarians
- Browse digital collections
- Catch up on library news
- Access freely available databases and search tools
Friends of the Duke University Libraries
- Learn more about Friends of the Duke University Libraries, an association of alumni, faculty, staff and other bibliophiles who are dedicated to promoting the interests of the Duke University Libraries.
Access Online Databases
Duke University Libraries provides access to a small selection of online databases (but NOT eBooks) for all alumni. Alumni must first register with the Duke Alumni Directory.
Databases accessible to registered Alumni
American Culture
- Everyday Life & Women in America, 1800–1920
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950–1975
- The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960–1974
Business/Economics
- Business Expert Press
Citation Management
- RefWorks
Dance
- Dance in Video
Drama
- Asian American Drama
- Audio Drama: The LA Theatre Works Collection
- Black Drama: 1850–Present
- Filmakers Library Online
- Theatre in Video
Exploration
- Empire Online
- Medieval Travel Writing
Historical Journals & Newspapers
- Eighteenth Century Journals
- Harper's Weekly, 1857–1912
History
- First World War: Personal Experiences
- Literary Manuscripts: Victorian Manuscripts
- Medieval Family Life
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490–2007
Humanities
- Black Short Fiction and Folklore
- Black Thought and Culture
International
- China: Culture and Society
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793–1980
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839–1969
- Foreign Office Files for China, 1949–1980
- Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
- India, Raj and Empire
- Meiji Japan
Interdisciplinary & General Resources
- EBSCO Academic Search Alumni Edition
- In The First Person
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
- ProQuest ABI INform Complete
- University Press Scholarship Online
Judaica
- Jewish Life in America, 1654–1954
Latino Studies
- Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction
Music
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
- Jazz Music Library
- Music Online
- Smithsonian Global Sound
Religion
- ATLA
- ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
- Digital Karl Barth Library
- Digital Library of Classical Protestant Texts
Social Sciences
- Anthropology Online
- Ethnographic Video Online
- Social History
- London Low Life
- Mass Observation Online
- Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
- Victorian Popular Culture: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic
- Victorian Popular Culture: Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks
- Victorian Popular Culture: Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment
- Victorian Popular Culture: Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
US History
- American West
- Virginia Company Archives
- American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
- American History in Video
- North American Immigrant Letters and Diaries
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000
Video
- Academic Video Online