page_title: Duke University Libraries
section_title: Libraries and departments
hierarchical_section_title: Duke University Libraries / Libraries and departments
caption_attribution_description: Perkins Library at Duke University
context_page_description: Duke University Libraries is the library system of Duke University, serving the university's students and faculty. The Libraries collectively hold some 6 million volumes.
  The collection contains 17.7 million manuscripts, 1.2 million public documents, and tens of thousands of films and videos. 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 professional schools have separately administrated libraries: the Goodson Law Library, Duke Divinity School Library, Ford Library at Fuqua School of Business, and the Medical Center Library. The Biological and Environmental Sciences Library was formerly part of the system but in 2009 it closed permanently.
caption: The Gothic Reading Room of Perkins Library
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