Ford Library

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TheGerald R. Ford Presidential Library is a repository located on the north campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.[1] The library houses archival materials on the life, career, and presidency of Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States.[2] The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is a part of the National Archives and Records Administrations presidential library system.

While a member of the United States Congress, Ford began donating his congressional papers to the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, his alma mater (B.A. 1935), in 1965.[3] As his presidency drew to a close, Ford offered to donate his presidential materials to a presidential library that would be built on the university's campus and administered by the National Archives.[3] Construction of the library started on January 15, 1979, and it was opened to the public on April 27, 1981.[4]

The Ford Library is currently the only National Archives presidential library that is physically separate from its presidential museum, although both sites share a common director. The Gerald R. Ford Museum is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ford's old congressional district and hometown, 130 miles west-northwest of Ann Arbor.[3]

The majority of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library collection is made up of presidential and White House staff papers from 1974-1977. Papers from Betty Ford, additional pre- and post-presidential papers, research interviews and papers, as well as various Federal records are also included in the collection. In total, there are 3,500 hours of audio, 25 million pages of documents, 3,500 hours of motion picture film, 450,000 photographs, and 3,500 hours of video housed in the collection.[4]

If your research project involves the use of AI tools and you would like to use library database content in those tools, please consult with us before beginning your project. Thank you!

Ford Library is pleased to announce subscriptions to the new ESG-focused data sets below. All of these data sets are hosted on the WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) platform, and are available to all Duke University students, faculty, and staff.

Online journal access via publisher web sites, and via article search databases will be unaffected by this maintenance. You may search these sites and databases directly for journal articles by using the links below:

The Thomson ONE database from Refinitiv (formerly Thomson-Reuters) will be permanently retired and go offline in early February. Projected retirement is January 31, but there may be a brief continuation for a few days in February.

Thomson ONE will be replaced by Refinitiv Workspace which will deliver much of the same content that is available in Thomson ONE. Until Refinitiv Workspace is available, users may use the following products as effective substitutes for data in Thomson ONE.

If a faculty member lists a particular print resource for a course, there may be e-book or online audiobook versions available if you cannot access print while the Library is closed. The list below includes the online versions of some of those resources designated for Spring Term 1.

Note that the links below will prompt you for your Duke Net ID and password in some cases. Fuqua faculty author names will appear in bold. Thanks for your attention this year, and best wishes for successful exams and a restful holiday season!

Two of our online journal publishers (Wiley, Taylor & Francis) have outsourced their DDoS protection to a 3rd party service (Cloudflare) and this is causing users who attempt to download PDFs of articles from these journals after following proxied links from a library web site to see an error message like the one below.

All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library and Goodson Law Library have co-funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com.

Ford Library provides the principal business collections for the university, including more than 50,000 books and journals, both in print and online. It supplements this discipline-focused collection with extensive print and online career resources for Duke students and alumni; an ESL and foreign language learning collection; a media collection that includes Kindles pre-loaded with topical collections and recreational reading; and a strategy-focused board game collection.

Ford Library emphasizes its commitment to current business scholarship with subscriptions to over ninety databases. Faculty and students, both on campus and worldwide, have ready access to these databases supplied by major business information providers such as Bloomberg, Bureau van Dijk, Euromonitor, Factiva, FactSet, IBISWorld, MarketLine, Mergent, Pitchbook, Refinitiv, and S&P Capital IQ. These databases contain information and statistics on companies, industries, financial markets, and other topics of interest to business faculty and students. The library spends $1.5 million annually on its library materials, electronic resources, and databases to support faculty research and student learning in all areas related to business.

Ford Library employs subject-specialist librarians to assist faculty members and students with their research questions by telephone, email, chat, WebEx, Zoom, and in person. These librarians provide classes in library technology and database use throughout the year as well as assist faculty in identifying and licensing specialized data sets for research.

The Sladen Libraries serve as your gateway to knowledge-based information. Our electronic journals, books, and medical databases support our teaching, research, and clinical practice missions. Our library system offers access to thousands of academic resources, including:

The medical library at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital provides information services for HF Macomb associates and volunteers. The library features a collection of books and journals onsite, computer workstations, and areas for quiet study. As part of the Sladen Libraries of Henry Ford Health, HF Macomb users share access to an expert collection of online databases, electronic books, and online journals.

Our library system is comprised of four hospital libraries: Henry Ford Hospital; Henry Ford Macomb Hospital; Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital; Henry Ford Allegiance Health. Additionally, the corporate historical archives, the Conrad R. Lam Archives, located at 1 Ford Place in Detroit.

Patients at Henry Ford Hospital may visit the Sladen Library located on the 17th floor of the Clinic Building to explore the collection of patient health information books, or to speak with a librarian. Patients are welcome Monday through Friday 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

In addition to our physical location on the 17th floor of the Clinic Building, you can visit the Sladen Library website via OneHENRY to access the complete collection of resources and services. This is your gateway to over 4,500 electronic journals, more than 4,600 electronic books and a wide array of databases.

The Ford, Cox and Kyle Classrooms are three of W&M's premier teaching and learning spaces. They were designed as incubator classrooms with flexibility and experimentation in mind. The furniture and displays can all be moved to best suit the use of the space. Below are a few example configurations for the Cox Classroom:

Instruction by librarians and library staff takes priority in scheduling throughout the semester. Any other instruction, including library-sponsored events and course-based screenings may be scheduled during this time, but is subject to rescheduling up to 7 days in advance of the planned event to accommodate instructional sessions. Scheduling requests should be sent to External Relations.

The Henry Ford houses a nationally significant collection of business records, automotive product literature and periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, prints, postcards, maps, trade catalogs, early American dictionaries, and other library and special collection material.

In 1925, eighty-five Western Springs residents decided the town needed a free public library. So they petitioned the County to place the issue before local voters. Since the early 1920s, Western Springs residents had discussed the pros and cons of forming a free public library. And, in a 1925 village-wide

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum and the Barack Obama Presidential Library proudly announce that esteemed author Dr. David Pilgrim will visit the Gerald R. Ford Museum as a guest speaker for an exclusive event. Scheduled for Thursday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m., this event is open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded.

During the event, Dr. Pilgrim will share the mission of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Imagery, the nation's most extensive publicly accessible collection of artifacts of intolerance. The museum contextualizes the dreadful impact of Jim Crow laws and customs and uses objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote a more just society. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to engage with Dr. Pilgrim in an inclusive setting, posing questions and delving deeper into the history of racist imagery and artifacts of intolerance.

Dr. Pilgrim is a highly regarded expert in race studies in America. He is best known as the founder and director of the Jim Crow Museum, a 20,000-piece collection of racist artifacts at Ferris State University, where he also serves as Vice President for Diversity, Inclusion, and Strategic Initiatives. He is the author of Understanding Jim Crow (PM Press, 2015), Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors (PM Press, 2017), and Haste to Rise (with Franklin Hughes, PM Press,2020). Dr. Pilgrim has garnered widespread acclaim for lectures at dozens of institutions, including Stanford University, the University of Michigan, Smith College, and the University of North Carolina.

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