Students

Loan Periods

Students must present their mobile Duke ID cards at the circulation/reserves desk to check out materials from the library. Books on Reserve for Divinity courses have a 3-hour loan period, and a maximum of two reserve books can be checked out at any one time. Books in the regular circulating collection have semester loans for all graduate students, including Divinity and Religion, and 4-week loans for undergraduates.

Renewals

Books may be renewed in person, by calling the circulation desk (919-660-3450), or online using My Accounts. Please note that books that have been recalled by another patron cannot be renewed.

Recalls

Please note that books may be recalled for use by another patron after two weeks. Return recalled books promptly as there is a fine of $3/day past due date for recalls. To protect your privacy, the library does not give out the name of the patron who has checked out a book. We can, at your request, make a special effort to recall a book quickly.

Fines

Late books from the Reserve collection accrue fines at the rate of $0.50 an hour. Recalled books accrue fines at a rate of $3 a day. Duke Libraries will email patrons with a courtesy notice when a book's due date approaches, and overdue notices when the due date has passed. Once a book is 28 days overdue, it ages to "Lost" and patrons are assessed a $100 replacement fee and a $25 processing fee. Unpaid library fines are sent to the Bursar's Office.

Printing with ePrint

Duke students, staff, and faculty may print from a library or personal computer and retrieve your prints on any Library or OIT release stations. All print jobs will be stored on the server for 12 hours. 

• Black-and-white printing is essentially free, but you have a quota of $32 a semester (about 3,000 pages). If your print balance falls below $9, you can request more printing funds for free at https://dukecard.duke.edu/eprint/.
• Color printing costs 25 cents per page and is charged from your FLEX account, not the free printing quota.  
• You will need your Duke Card to release print jobs.
• More information on printing with ePrint.

Printers and scanners

The Divinity Library has two black and white ePrint stations (one outside the library entrance, and one across from the circulation desk). You may print to these printers with your own computer (download ePrint software) or from the library's public computers (log in with your NetID and password). The Divinity Library also has public scanners that can save scanned files to a flash drive or send them over email. For more information, here is a guide to the various printers, copiers, and scanners in the library.

More information about computing on campus

Security

Students are reminded that although we are a seminary library, the Divinity Library is open to the larger University and the public. Please do not leave any belongings unattended. We cannot guarantee the safety of items that are left unmonitored.

Zoom Pods

Do you need a quiet space to take a Zoom call or participate in an online class or meeting? The Divinity Library has two "Zoom Pods" upstairs on our BQ-BR level. Students can sign up on the calendars outside the pods for reservations during the current week. Contact divlib@duke.edu to schedule a reservation more than a week in advance (or to schedule a recurring reservation throughout the semester).

Library Classrooms

The Divinity School Library has two seminar classrooms: the Baker Methodist Research Center (on the main floor) and the Library Seminar Room (094, on the BX level). Both rooms are available as reading rooms when they are not reserved. Divinity classes have priority for reservations. Contact Lacey Hudspeth with questions and reservation requests.

Study Carrels

Open Carrels: Most seating is open seating and is available each day on a first come, first served basis. Library Books found in study carrels will be reshelved each evening. Again, please do not leave belongings unattended in the library.

Assigned Carrels: The Divinity Library has a limited number of desks/study carrels that are available for assignment to doctoral students from the ThD Program and the PhD Program in Religion. Occupancy is for two years, renewable for a third year. Contact Dr. Benjamin with questions about the carrel waitlist.

Interlibrary Requests (ILR) assists scholarly research by obtaining library materials. Document delivery locates needed materials in other libraries, borrows books and microforms and obtains photocopied/scanned material on behalf of eligible Duke patrons. See the Interlibrary Requests page for more information and forms for submitting requests.

A reciprocal borrowing program is an agreement between institutional libraries where students/faculty from one school can register for library privileges at another school. Duke Divinity School Library is a member of three such programs: TRLN, Borrow Direct (the Ivy Plus Confederation), and Atla.

TRLN

Duke University Libraries, together with the libraries of North Carolina Central University (NCCU), North Carolina State University (NCSU), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), participate in a cooperative library lending agreement called the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN). Faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students may obtain borrowing privileges at the other participating libraries.

Borrow Direct

The Ivy Plus Confederation includes the libraries of Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. Duke faculty, staff, and students may present their DukeCard to obtain borrowing privileges at these Borrow Direct/Ivy Plus libraries.

Atla

The Atla Reciprocal Borrowing Program connects over 125 theological libraries in North America. Duke Divinity students can set up accounts to check out books at other Atla libraries, and patrons whose home library is in the Atla RBP network can set up accounts to check out books at Duke Divinity Library. Here is a map and a spreadsheet of participating libraries. Find more information here.