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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Best Books Read in 2014: The Durham Tech Faculty and Staff Edition
Check out our current window display showing off Durham Tech’s Faculty and Staff Best Books of 2014! Want to read something we don’t have or that’s checked out? Ask a librarian about getting it via interlibrary loan.
Click on a book for more details.
The Top Picks:
“enlightening and inspiring”
“tremendous” and “so well-written I found myself underlining and marking quotes that spoke images and concepts with grace and style”
“really made me think”
“a powerful, smart, and touching book”
Find this book at PS 3570 .A657 G65 2013 at Main Campus when not on display
“Oh, I liked that one, too. Put that down as my favorite.” – Multiple Library Staff Members
“enjoyed the philosophy and inner dialogue [of] the main character”
“a unique love story”
Other Best Reads:
For a complete faculty and staff best book list, click on the following link to view the PDF: Durham Tech Faculty and Staff Best Books of 2014.
New DVDs in the Library
These are the new DVDs we have waiting for you to check out.
Citizen Autistic
GMO OMG
Driven: From Wheelchair to Racecar
Saving Mr. Banks
Girl Rising
Half of a Yellow Sun
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
If I Stay
New Resource: Films on Demand Streaming Video Collection
Films On Demand is a streaming video platform that features high quality educational video content. The collection includes more than 20,000 films and is constantly growing! The collections include award winning documentaries, instructional and vocational training videos, interviews, archival primary source materials, historical speeches, newsreels, and videos aligned with college curriculum. Subjects include automotive, business, economics, health, medicine, humanities, social sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, and vocational trades. Also included are travel and fitness programming, how-to videos, and popular music and dance performances.
Some of the benefits and key features of the platform include:
- Films are segmented into easy-to-use clips
- Powerful browse & search tools
- Ability to share, save, and organize videos and custom playlists
- Closed-captioning and transcripts on thousands of titles
- HTML embed code that allows direct access to videos from Sakai
- Email alerts can be set up under preferences for a particular subject or discipline when new content is added
- Citation options
- iPad friendly
Explore Films on Demand today! Create a free account to get started. Let the library staff know if you have any questions. The helpful user’s guide will orient you to this new resource.
Current Student IDs: Not Just for Main Campus Library Access!
Now that the first week of class is over (Congrats! You did it!), students should have stopped by the Security Office on Main Campus or Security Desk at the Northern Durham Center or Orange County Campus to order or update their student ID. Please be aware that students without updated Durham Tech student IDs will not be allowed into the Main Campus library starting on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015 (see below for more information on the ID policy).
However, a current student ID doesn’t just get you access to the books, DVDs, computers, CDs, and other perks of the Durham Tech library– it also can get you discounts at local and national chains, both in-person and online.
Locally (click on the links for more information):
- Need some drama in your life? Durham Performance Arts Center (DPAC) offers up to two tickets at a discounted rates for students of all ages with a valid student ID.
- Free bus fare for most students via the Triangle Transit GoPass.
- Movie buff?
- AMC Theaters at the Streets of Southpoint has discounted movie tickets for students on Thursday nights
- Northgate Theaters offers a $1.00 discount per ticket with valid student ID
- Carmike Cinemas offers a student discount (click pricing info on the linked page to see details)
National chains with local presences:
- Like Macs? Apple offers education pricing for students
- Are you a PC? Check out Dell, Microsoft, and HP‘s student shops.
- J. Crew stores and factories offer 15% off purchases with a valid student ID presented at check-out
- Moe’s Southwest Grill (call locations to get details)
(Be sure to check at national chains to see if they’re currently honoring student IDs as policies may vary.)
Investigate for yourself using the following lists:
- Business Insider’s “34 Discounts Every Student Should Use“
- PuckerMob’s “70 Things You Can Score with Your Student ID” and their additional list of “54 UPDATED Things You Can Score with Your Student ID“
- RatherBeShopping.com’s “50+ Places Where Students Get a Sweet Student Discount“
Good luck and happy saving!
More information on the student ID policy: Students may sign in at Main Campus library one time per semester with an alternate form of photo identification and proof of their current enrollment (syllabus, textbook, etc.). Current students may not sign in as guests— their names will be checked with the one-time pass list, and they will be denied entry if they have already used their pass this semester.
Please note that Durham Tech students taking classes on other campuses must still have a current student ID in order to enter the Main Campus library.
New Books for a New Year
Check out these new books we have for 2015 for up to three weeks at a time. If one of these doesn’t catch your eye, find more on our New Books Bookshelf next to the circulation desk at the Main Campus Library.
Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave by Shyima Hall
Available at the Main Campus (E 840.8 .L43 A3 2017)
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales from Old Japan by Lafcadio Hearn
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
Available at the Main Campus (HQ 1101 .S47 2013)
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Knock ‘Em Dead Cover Letters: Cover Letters and Strategies to Get the Job You Want by Martin Yate
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold
New DVDs and Books
New DVDs
We have some great new DVDs in our collection! These and others can be checked out for one week at a time.
The Fault in Our Stars
United States of Secrets
New Books
These items can be checked out for three weeks at a time.
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters by Jessica Valenti
Breaking Through: Using Educational Technology for Children with Special Needs by Barbara Albers Hill
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
The Dreamers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate by Walter J. Nicholls
Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence by Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano
Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD by Timothy Denevi
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck (On reserve at Main Campus Library and Orange County Campus Library)
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai
Resumes for Health and Medical Careers (4th ed). By the Editors of McGraw-Hill
The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone by Scott Samuelson
For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind by Rosemary Mahoney
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal by Aviva Chomsky
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Leviathan
Barron’s E-Z Arithmetic by Edward Williams and Katie Prindle
Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin
Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore
The Digital Mystique: How the Culture of Connectivity Can Empower Your Life – Online and Off by Sarah Granger
Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship by Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald Haider-Markel
The Secret World of Oil by Ken SIlverstein
Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 MInutes a Day by Sam Bennett
Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America. Edited by Doran Larson
A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot (6th ed) by B.C. Southam
Bricks and Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made by Tom Wilkinson
War of the Whales: A True Story by Joshua Horwitz
Careers in Health Care by Barbara Sheen
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of a Creative Mind by Biz Stone
The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities by William D. Cohan
The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy: More than 100 Years of Covering the Expanding Universe
Applying the College Completion Agenda to Practice. Editors: Katherine L. Hughes and Andrea Venezia
Lippincott Review for NCLEX-PN (10th ed) by Barbara Kuhn Timby and Diana Rupert
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less by Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond by Michael Sims
Mindful Discipline: A Loving Approach to Setting Limits and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by Shauna Shapiro and Chris White