Duke University Libraries is the

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system of

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

, serving the university's students and faculty. The Libraries collectively hold some 6 million

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s. The collection contains 17.7 million

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s, 1.2 million public documents, and tens of thousands of

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s and

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s. The Duke University Libraries consists of the William R. Perkins Library, Bostock Library, and the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library on West Campus; the Lilly Library and Music Library on East Campus, and the Pearse Memorial Library at the Duke Marine Lab. It also includes the Library Service Center, library offices located in the Smith Warehouse, as well as a few other departments. The

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s have separately administrated libraries: the Goodson Law Library,

Duke Divinity School The Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is one of ten graduate or professional schools within Duke University. It is also one of thirteen seminaries founded and supported by the United Methodist Church. It has 39 regular ...

Library, Ford Library at

Fuqua School of Business The Fuqua School of Business (pronounced ) is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It enrolls more than 1,300 students in degree-seeking programs. Duke Executive Education also offers non-degree business education and ...

, and the Seeley Mudd Medical Center Library. The Biological and Environmental Sciences Library was formerly part of the system but in 2009 it closed permanently.

Libraries and departments

William R. Perkins Library

The William R. Perkins Library system has nine branches on campus. It includes a major collection of

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Roy J. Bostock Library

Bostock Library, named for board of trustees member Roy J. Bostock, opened in the fall of 2005 as part of the University's strategic plan to supplement Duke's libraries. It contains 87 study carrels, 517 seats, and 96 computer stations, as well as of shelving for overflow books from Perkins Library as well as for new collections.

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds more than 350,000 rare books, 10,000 manuscript collections, and extensive collections of photography, film, and audio. The library was named after board of trustees member and alumn David M. Rubenstein in 2011.About the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Retrieved on July 27, 2020.

Divinity School Library

The Divinity School Library is located next to Perkins Library in the

. It contains 400,000 volumes, as well as various periodicals and other materials to support the study of theology and religion. The library is the host institution for the Religion in North Carolina Digitization project, a collaborative digitization project with

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

and the

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, due for completion in 2015.

References

* Land, William Goodfellow and George Washington Flowers. (1939)
''The centennial exhibit of the Duke university library, consisting of material from the George Washington Flowers memorial collection of books and documents relating to the history and literature of the South, April 5-June 5, 1939.''
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University.

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