The Littlest Blue Devil explains how to find a book in the stacks.
With over 8 million volumes spread across 10 libraries and two campuses (plus Duke Kunshan and the Duke Marine Lab!), it can be daunting to find what you're looking for in a large research library system like Duke's—especially if no one has ever explained it before.
But never fear: the Littlest Blue Devil is here to help! This 2-minute reel walks you through the steps of finding a book in our online catalog and using the call number to track it down and check it out.
Congrats to the Class of 2026! We want to give a special shout-out to our student workers, who are vital to the operations of the Libraries. It has been our pleasure to work with you all. Good luck on whatever adventure comes next! 💙
Things are looking up inside the Lilly Library renovation! Our amazing senior Yaa got an insider’s tour of the project before her graduation. Here’s to an amazing future #eastcampus #thelillyproject #duke2026 #duke
Our staff had a great time serving breakfast and mocktails at LDOC yesterday! Congratulations on entering the home stretch to final exams, Duke students. You've got this!
📸: Annette Tillery
Happy National Library Week! At Duke, our libraries are at the heart of the campus experience, welcoming students and visitors from around the world as they explore new ideas.
To celebrate, the first 50 donors who give $100 or more to the Library Annual Fund this week (April 19-25) will receive a FREE limited-edition library tote bag.
Learn more at library.duke.edu/challenge (link in bio)!
Happy #NationalLibraryWeek Blue Devils! This year’s theme is ‘Find Your Joy’ so we’re hoping you’ll stop by one or both of these events that’ll surely put some pep in your step.
We can't wait for this! As part of Earth Month at @dukeuniversity , @katharinehayhoe will have a fireside chat with Stanback Dean Lori Bennear of @dukeenvironment in Goodson Chapel @dukedivinity .
Hayhoe is the chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World.
This event is in person, and we hope you can join us April 23 at 5 p.m. Reception to follow talk. Open to all!
Sign up: duke.is/0423
Plus: We have copies of her book to give to 5 lucky registrants (to be randomly selected from all pre-registrations) on site at the event at Goodson Chapel. Her book is also available to check out in ebook and print via @dukelibraries .
Happy Earth Month!
#DukeClimateCommitment
Duke University Libraries is proud to be a founding signatory of the Statement of Shared Practice on AI & Archives, a coalition of research libraries establishing shared principles for how cultural heritage institutions evaluate AI training data requests.
The Statement of Shared Practice is a community-driven framework following six core principles, derived from the University of Virginia Archival AI Protocol.
Endorsement of the Shared Practice is open to any institution that stewards unique cultural collections. We welcome memory institutions of all kinds and sizes to learn more and sign on: at.virginia.edu/AIStatement
The Duke University Libraries have received a $3 million gift from Duke Trustee Emerita Rebecca Trent Kirkland along with her three sisters to name the History of Medicine Collections in the @rubensteinlib in honor of their father, Dr. Josiah Charles Trent.
The gift recognizes Dr. Trent’s extraordinary legacy as Duke’s first division chief of thoracic surgery, a distinguished historian of medicine, and a visionary collector whose passion helped establish one of the nation’s most important medical history collections.
Visitors can experience the richness of Duke’s medical history holdings in the Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room, part of the Mary Duke Biddle exhibit suite in the Rubenstein Library. Open seven days a week, the space features rotating exhibitions on topics related to the history of medicine, reflecting the generosity, intellectual curiosity, and collecting interests of Dr. Trent, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, and their family.
It's the first day of our Spring Challenge to unlock $200,000 in the month of April for our libraries and the people we serve!
Explore the challenge at library.duke.edu/challenge or click the link in our bio!
