Thursday, April 16, 2020

Alumni Author Virtual Celebration

Today would have been the library's ninth annual National Library Week Alumni Author event, with featured speaker Randolph J. May (B.A. 1968/J.D. 1971) of the Free State Foundation. While the global coronavirus pandemic has indefinitely postponed our planned event with May to discuss his new book (with co-author Seth Cooper), Modernizing Copyright Law for the Digital Age: Constitutional Foundations for Reform, we still wanted to recognize May, as well as to celebrate our many Duke Law alumni who have published books on a wide variety of topics, both legal and non-legal.

Books by Duke Law School alumni are marked in the Duke Libraries Catalog with the collection name "Alumni Authors." The items are still shelved by their Library of Congress call number, rather than in a separately-located collection, to aid the discovery of works on a particular topic.

You can view recordings of our eight past Alumni Author event speakers on the National Library Week at the Goodson Law Library playlist at Duke Law's YouTube channel. We look forward to adding future event videos to the playlist, as well as future alumni books to the library collection. If you would like to alert the library to a new or forthcoming alumni author publication, please Ask (well, Tell) a Librarian.