The Perkins Library complex hosts a variety of work spaces and resources to provide faculty and students with space for cross-program collaboration.

The intellectual crossroads of one of the country’s leading research universities, Duke University’s libraries provide comprehensive, integrated academic resources and services. The libraries have been transformed through a series of programming, planning, design, and construction projects that have spanned more than a decade, fulfilling a vision for the institution set forth in our library master plan. This holistic learning environment of the Perkins-Bostock complex responds to a wide-ranging demand for services, with robust research facilities and environments for solitary and shared scholarship. Included are the special collections of the Rubenstein Library, which are complemented by exhibit and event space, and the social gathering spaces of the jewel box-like von der Heyden Pavilion.