Overview

About the Library

As a collaborative partner in every aspect of the University’s academic endeavors, the Library is an interactive and innovative teaching and learning hub and a scholarly gateway to enhance intellectual discovery, cultivate creativity, and promote scholarship and exchange of knowledge. In particular, the Library provides high-quality collections, offers user-centered services, and develops various programs to support you in your studies and research.

The Library offers:

  • Full access to nearly all of Duke University’s online library resources
  • Over 358,000 online journal titles
  • Over 2.89 million eBooks
  • 1,100+ databases of scholarly materials
  • Rapidly expanding on-site collection of books (55,000+ volumes) and DVDs (630+)
  • Selection based on DKU academic programs, courses offered, and faculty recommendations
  • About 76% English-language materials, plus materials in Chinese and other languages acquired as needed

Mission Statement

The Library supports Duke Kunshan University’s mission to become a highly selective research-oriented, liberal arts and science university to enable students to lead purposeful and productive lives. As a collaborative partner in every aspect of the university’s academic endeavors, the Library is an interactive and innovative teaching and learning hub and a scholarly gateway to enhance intellectual discovery, cultivate creativity, and promote scholarship and exchange of knowledge. With its highly qualified staff, the Library

  • acquires, organizes, preserves, curates, and delivers diverse teaching and research resources in any format to university users with timely and seamless access at the place and point of need,
  • provides its users effective and cutting-edge tools to discover, use, and create learning, teaching, and research resources, and
  • develops the information literacy program to help prepare students to achieve academic excellence and master life-long learning skills in global environment.