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!
Heather Martin
Librarian for African & African American Studies and Cultural Anthropology
E-mail: heather.martin@duke.edu
Phone: 919.660.5930
Heather is the Librarian for African & African American Studies and Cultural Anthropology. Through teaching and one-on-one research appointments, she helps students find library resources and other information in these subject areas. Her office is in the Global Studies Department in Bostock Library on West Campus.
Heather was born in New Jersey but grew up in South Carolina. She graduated from Furman University (B.A. in English) and the University of South Carolina (MLIS and M.A. in English). She worked in university libraries in Ohio and Alabama before joining Duke in 2017. In her free time, she enjoys attending theatre performances around the Triangle, reading, and visiting cultural sites around North Carolina. She is also a beginning sewist.