Library Blog - just for fun

For many, January is a time to mindfully start new habits, either just as a new year reset (hello, dry-anuary participants and all of you doing Whole 30 for your very last day today!) or as the start of a new, hopefully enduring habit. The library surveyed Durham Tech faculty and staff and asked them to anonymously share their goals for 2019. Have similar goals? Why not use the Read Great Things Challenge to help you reach those goals by reading a book to expand your knowledge, and also check

A new year, a new set of Read Great Things categories. Are you ready to participate? What is the Read Great Things Challenge? The Read Great Things Challenge is a personal reading challenge sponsored by the Durham Tech Library throughout 2019 that encourages folks to diversify and/or increase their reading goals by completing books that fit into at least 10 of the following 12 categories: A book that will help you with one of your personal goals A book by or about someone you admire A social

This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian, and is available for checkout at the Orange County Campus Library. Title: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World Author: Steve Brusatte Genre: Popular Science, General Dinosaur Awesomeness #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A popular science book; A book that takes place during or is about a historical event 50 years or more in the past [this historical event took place a few million years

This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian, and is available for checkout at the Orange County Campus Library. Title: Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery: A Novel in Two Acts Author: Mary Amato Genre: Fantasy [because ghosts talking and stuff]. Is there a "imagined conversations between ghosts in graveyards" fiction genre? Because this fits that one, too. #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book that contains a supernatural creature, occurrence, or event

Did you know that, since 1995, September 19 has been International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Wikipedia gives a brief history of this weird occasion, which originated between two friends playing a game of Racquetball. So, I know you're asking, "How do I learn to talk like a Pirate?" Good news! You've come to the right place. Your Durham Tech library has just the tool for you: Mango Languages. Mango Languages provides lessons for people who want to learn any of dozens of languages. These range from

[caption id="attachment_4424" align="aligncenter" width="198"] Available at the OCC Library on the New Book shelf[/caption] This book was enthusiastically read by Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Revisionist Zombie Historical Fiction, Supernatural fiction [not sure if it's fantasy or science-fiction-- I'm waiting for the next books in the series to figure out how those zombies became zombies!] #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book with a supernatural creature [yup], A book

[caption id="attachment_4406" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Available at Main Campus Library: QL 31 .G58 J36 2017[/caption] This movie was watched by Julie Humphrey, Library Director. Title: Jane Director: Brett Morgen Genre: Documentary Why did you choose to watch this movie? I am a huge admirer of primatologist, Jane Goodall, and her animal conservation work. I had heard that this film featured never-before-seen archival footage of her years working in Tanzania in the early 1960’s. What did

In a repeating series highlighting current and recent reads around Durham Tech, here’s Durham Tech’s awesome faculty and staff’s current or recently finished summer reads: [gallery link="none" size="medium" ids="4339,4341,4342,4343,4344,4345,4346,4347,4348,4349,4350,4351,4352,4353,4354,4355,4356,4357,4358,4359,4360,4361,4362,4363,4364,4365,4366,4367,4368,4369,4370,4371,4372,4373,4374,4375,4376,4377,4378,4379,4380,4381" orderby="rand"] Need help finding a book in-library or requesting a book

[caption id="attachment_4232" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Available at the Main and Orange County Campus Libraries on the new books shelf[/caption] This book was read by Courtney Bippley, Reference Librarian at the Main Campus, and Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Fantasy, YA #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book with a supernatural creature [yup], occurrence [yup], or event [yup] Find out more about the Read Great Things Challenge here. Why did you choose to read this

[gallery type="square" link="none" columns="2" size="full" ids="4267,4268"] This series was read by Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Graphic Novel/Comic Book #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book that contains a supernatural creature [loads], occurrence [more than one], or event [very much yes] Find out more about the Read Great Things Challenge here. Why did you choose to read this book? I picked up Monstress Vol. 1 a year or so ago in an effort to check out some new