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

The Durham Tech Library wants to know-- what did you do this summer?

Complete our form for a chance to be featured (either by name or anonymously) in a future Durham Tech Library blog or social media post AND be entered to win some very excellent Durham Tech Library swag.

Enter by Monday, September 1. Winners will be notified well before the autumnal equinox on September 22.

(For what it's worth, working all summer is a perfectly acceptable answer here. We get it. We worked, too. You can just fill out the form for the swag.)

Librarians like to make sure you have all the information, so sometimes it's hard for us to keep it short. There's just so much information out there! We want to make sure you have all the details that you need.

Sometimes you just need to keep it short[er] and sweet, though.

With that in mind, here's a top 15 list of essential library links for your first few weeks of school and beyond--

• Need a laptop? We have Chromebooks and a few PCs for students to borrow: https://www.durhamtech.edu/student-services/computer-and-internet
• Need a calculator? We have them for short- or semester-long loans, depending on your class: https://durhamtech.libguides.com/techtools/calculators
• Need a place to study? We have spaces in both the Main Campus and Orange County Campus Library: https://durhamtech.libguides.com/library/space
• Instructors-- Need a library instruction session, tour, or quick introduction to library resources? We have form for that!: https://durhamtech1.wufoo.com/forms/library_instruction
• Need to

Sun, sand, and something sinister.

Whether you're lounging by the pool or hiding from the heat, crack open a spine-tingling tale that'll chill you to the bone...even in 90+-degree weather.

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A glamorous socialite is summoned to a crumbling mansion in the Mexican countryside, where her cousin’s cryptic letters scream danger. But the rot in the house isn’t just structural—it's deeply, disturbingly alive. Think haunted house meets creeping colonial horror with mushrooms and madness. Come for the Gothic vibes, stay for the unraveling.

The Night Eaters, Book 2: Her Little Reapers by by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

The family drama gets bloodier in this dark and delicious continuation of Liu and Takeda’s graphic horror saga. The twins are still reeling from the truth about their terrifyingly badass mom—and now things are unraveling fast. Old secrets claw their way out of the grave, dragging demons both literal and personal into the light. Gorgeously