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W. E. B. Du Bois Library Floor Directory. Below is the service directory for the W. E. B. Du Bois Library. You can also view a PDF of the floor directory as well as the Du Bois Library Mural Collection.
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was one of the...
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The W. E. B. Du Bois Library holds resources primarily in humanities and social and behavioral sciences. At 28 stories and 286 feet 41⁄8 inches (roughly 88 m) tall, it is the third-tallest library in the world after the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta at 414 feet (126 m) and Shanghai Library in China at 348 feet (106 m).
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was one of the leading thinkers of his age. As a public intellectual, activist, organizer, historian, poet, sociologist, and philosopher, he devoted his prodigious talent to the struggle for equality and social justice both in the US and internationally.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, 1803-1999, document virtually every stage in his long career and show his involvement in many areas of twentieth century racial, literary, and social reform movements. In particular, the correspondence files, including well over 100,000 items show Du Bois' interactions with others in these realms.
Sep 14, 2021 · Whether you like to study in solitude or groups, enjoy some art or coffee or are a lover of literature at large, the W. E. B. Du Bois Library is the place for you! For more information, go to the library’s website here .
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W.E.B. Du Bois Library. The largest library on campus, the W.E.B. Du Bois Library is home to a diverse array of resources, collections, and services, including the Special Collections and University Archives, home to the memoirs and papers of the distinguished African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, for whom the library is named.
