The Duke Medical Center Library gladly accepts donations that will help strengthen our collections, services, and general resources, including:

• Monetary gifts to purchase materials and support services and special projects
• Books and journals
• Audiovisual and multimedia programs
• Artifacts (stamps, book plates, instruments) relating to medicine or Duke University
• Manuscripts and papers of key figures in health care and medicine at Duke University

If you are not sure whether your gift fits one of the categories above, we will be glad to discuss it with you to determine if it is within our scope of Library or Archives collections.

Whenever items are donated to our Library, our team of skilled professionals reviews the items to determine whether the materials should be added to our collections. They consider:

• Whether we already own the materials
• If duplicate copies are needed
• Overall conditions of the donated materials
• If the Library and Archives can adequately house and preserve the materials
• Whether the items fit the scope of our biomedical and health care collection

Those items that are out of scope are frequently offered to other libraries or to our Duke community of students, faculty and medical professionals.

The professional staff members also decide the best location of your gift within the Library or Archives facilities:

Policies:

We will provide a general letter of acknowledgement for tax purposes. Donor names are also ascribed on bookplates in accepted materials.

• Medical books and journals are usually added to the circulating collection
• Older materials or those focusing on the history of medicine will go to the History of Medicine Collections
• Books written by Duke authors go to the Duke Authors collection within the History of Medicine Collections
• Medically-related artifacts, records, and papers specific to Duke are sent to Duke University Medical Center Library Archives
• Medical artifacts and instruments usually are placed in the History of Medicine Collections

Per IRS policies, we are unable to provide appraisal services to obtain monetary value of donations. However, we are happy to refer donors to professional appraisers in the area, upon request.

We usually do not provide a detailed list of items that are donated. However, we will be glad to discuss with you some ways to easily document the donation.

We can accept donations on site, but if you are donating several boxes of materials, please call ahead so that we can give you directions to our loading dock and provide book trucks for your materials. In addition, we are often able to pick up materials from donors with prior notice.

How to Contact Us:

General Gift Information Karen Grigg Associate Director, Collection Development Services (919) 660-1122 grigg012@mc.duke.edu	Monetary Donations Pat Thibodeau Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives (919) 660-1150 thibo001@mc.duke.edu
Journal Donations Judy Woodburn Assistant Director, Journal Services (919) 660-1140 woodb001@mc.duke.edu	Gifts of Duke-related Materials Russell Koonts Director and Archivist Medical Center Archives (919) 383-2653 koont004@mc.duke.edu
Historical Donations/Duke Authors Suzanne Porter Curator, History of Medicine Collections (919) 660-1143 porte004@mc.duke.edu