Duke University Libraries has a new website
(15 January 2014) Thinking of redesigning your library’s website? Duke University has done just that. Visit this smart new website here.
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Drawing the blueprint as we build: Setting up a library-based copyright and permissions service for MOOCs
(IATUL News Alerts, 26 July 2013) The rapid growth of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education has raised the question of what services libraries on campus can, and should, provide for these courses. One area in which librarians are frequently the source of advice and assistance is in providing copyright education and obtaining…
Tibetan manuscripts preserved by Duke with BL grant
Duke University has received a grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme to digitize and preserve a trove of ancient religious manuscripts related to Bon, the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet. The Menri Monstery in India’s Himachal Pradesh state owns the largest collection of Bon manuscripts in the world. Most were rescued from monasteries in…
China gets a rare look at its pre-revolutionary history
Sidney Gamble photos, housed at Duke University Libraries will be exhibited at the Capital Library of China in Beijing (6 June 2013, Durham, NC) – A new exhibit of historical photographs at the Capital Library of China offers a rare glimpse of daily life in Beijing in the early 20th century, a turbulent period in…