What can your Residence Hall Librarian do for you?
- Keep you informed with periodic e-mail messages highlighting resources and programs, like study breaks and extended Library hours during exam weeks
- Answer your questions about Library services, like borrowing technology, citing sources, and requesting materials from other libraries
- Assist you with your research assignments by helping you identify the best sources and formulate search strategies
- Connect you with library specialists across all subject areas
- Support you even when you’re not on campus—for example if you’re on break
- Help you when you don’t know where to start or can’t think of what to do next!
Greta Boers
Librarian for Classical Studies, Religious Studies, Philosophy and the Linguistics Program
E-mail: greta.boers@duke.edu
Phone: 919.660.5864
Mailbox: Box 90725 Durham, NC 27708-0175
Greta started her career in libraries over 40 years ago as a student assistant her freshman year at Emory University. She’s loved the profession ever since. That was in the days of the card catalog, a decade before internet, and the subsequent development of online catalogs, research databases, digitized data and images, chat reference, and AI. She’s witnessed revolutionary changes in information science.
Her favorite job is working together with students to discover what drives their curiosity. Creative responses to your academic work promise the best future for yourself and others. What inspires you? What intrigues you? What makes you mad? What do you enjoy? With an interdisciplinary approach, grounded in scholarly evidence — which librarians help you to find — those questions lead to new research, new discoveries, and new solutions to the world’s problems.
Greta has lived in Germany, France and South Africa, and became a citizen of the United States in 1994. Her hobbies include gardening, reading, and collecting textiles. She enjoys cooking. She also has an optimistic nature, which means she’s never entirely discouraged by her many culinary failures. Her cat Alistair is lucky his food comes out of a can.