We know you can get innumerable recipes online, but there's just something about a cookbook that someone has put together and (hopefully) tested the recipes until they're just right.

Both Durham Tech Library locations with circulating book collections have cookbooks available. From classics to new releases, check out the TX location on our shelves for all your cookbook needs.

Prefer to read your cookbook on a tablet? The NC LIVE HomeGrown Ebooks Collection has some real gems-- from bacon to beans (gotta love the Savor the South cookbook series) to s'mores and sheet pans.

Click on the book titles above to go to the database. Log on from home using your Durham Tech username and password, just like for Canvas or Self-Service.

Julie Humphrey, the Durham Tech Library director, explored our on-shelf cookbook collection at Main Campus, cooked a recipe or two, and has some recommendations for you.

Julie checked out Life-Changing Salads: 100 Plant-Based Salads and Dressings Beyond Your Wildest

Honoring Indigenous Peoples & Native Americans: Learning, Listening, and Celebrating at the Library

Many communities observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day & Native American Heritage Month, shifting the focus away from celebrating colonization and toward honoring the first peoples of this land—their histories, cultures, and ongoing contributions.

For libraries, this isn’t just a date on the calendar. It’s a reminder of our responsibility: to tell fuller stories, to amplify Indigenous & Native American voices, and to make sure our shelves, programs, and spaces reflect the people whose lands we’re on.

Our library invites you to join us in celebration, reflection, and learning.

Why Indigenous Peoples’ Day & Native American Heritage Month Matters

For generations, U.S. history has often been told from a single perspective—usually centering European exploration and settlement. Indigenous Peoples’ Day & Native American Heritage Month asks us to step back and ask: Whose stories are missing? Whose voices

Help us name our library skeleton on Main Campus for a chance to win a Starbucks gift card (generously donated by an anonymous Friend of the Library). Winners will be announced at the beginning of November. 

No need to wander into the woods for a fright—our library shelves are brimming with chills and thrills enough to make even the bravest reader look over their shoulder. This October, step into a world where every creak of the floorboards and rustle of pages hints at something lurking just out of sight and waiting for you to check it out.

This October, the Durham Tech Library invites you to brave The Scary 13—a carefully conjured collection of eerie delights spanning every format we offer. From dusty tomes, to whispering audiobooks, to graphic chills, and ghostly films, these stories are guaranteed to haunt your imagination long after the last page—or end credits—fade.

From ancient monsters to modern unease, The Scary 13 pulls its nightmares from every corner of the library. Each pick

Missed out on this swag giveaway?

Good news! You've got another chance!

For National Library Card Sign-Up Month (all of September), we're giving away one Golden Library Card from Libro.fm good for 6 free audiobooks of your choosing and some sweet Durham Tech Library swag. Enter here by September 30. Must have a valid library account to be eligible to win but--more good news!-- you can complete the request/renewal form online by going to the Library Account Registration form found at the link under Announcements on the Durham Tech Library homepage.

It may still be somewhat steamy outside, but September 22 (at 2:19 PM, to be precise) marks the official start of fall with the Autumnal Equinox.

We asked and you answered-- What was our Durham Tech community up to this summer?

Faculty, staff, and students chimed in, and we've got a selection of books from the Durham Tech Library collection inspired by their stories.

This summer, Durham Tech Assistant Accountant Alma Acosta discovered the

Students and staff at Durham Tech have digital access to databases that offer full-text articles from publications such as New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Time, Wired, Wall Street Journal, and more.

Users must access the articles through our databases, so they might appear different than how articles appear online through those organizations’ websites. For example, photos or screenshots published in articles may not be visible when they appear in our databases, but the written content should be the same.
 

We offer several ways to access articles from these places:

• New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post are linked on our Articles, Journals, and Databases page. You can use the filters on that page to narrow down our resources to Newspapers and see some of the other databases that offer newspaper articles.
• It’s also possible to find these publications in individual databases, such as the U.S. Newsstream Collection, whereas magazines can be found in Master