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[caption id="attachment_4332" align="alignright" width="371"] " New desk in use" by brewbooks is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.[/caption] NC LIVE recently announced that it is wading into the Open Educational Resources waters with a new initiative, Open Education North Carolina. NC LIVE's initiative "aims to reduce the cost of higher education for North Carolina students by providing free, open e-textbooks for 30 of the most frequently-taught courses across North Carolina’s colleges and
Check out what's new on the shelf at the Orange County Campus Library! We've got history, a little mystery, some memoir, cookbooks, and jellyfish! And more! A little nonfiction for ya'-- A few awesome cookbooks-- And don't forget to check out our new fiction-- Want to check out one or more of these books? Come on over to the Orange County Campus Library during librarian-available hours (see our library homepage for details or reach out to Orange County Campus Librarian Meredith Lewis at lewisma
A new year, a new list of categories for the Durham Tech Read Great Things Challenge! What is the Read Great Things Challenge? The Read Great Things Challenge is a personal reading challenge sponsored by the Durham Tech Library that encourages folks to diversify and/or increase their reading goals by completing books throughout 2020 that fit into at least 10 of the following 12 categories: A book of short stories or essays Someone else’s favorite book A book recommended by a celebrity book club
Are you using your phone to access your online coursework? Do you need a laptop for the upcoming semester? Do you know a student who needs one? As we all know, students who don't have access to the technology they need to do their school work are at a disadvantage in their classes. A smartphone is useful, but it's hard to complete a lot of coursework on a phone. And typing papers? No good. The Library has partnered with Durham Tech Student Engagement to loan laptops to student for the Fall
Available on the New Book Shelf at the Durham Tech Main Campus Library. Title: Sourdough Author: Robin Sloan Genre: Uh... contemporary tech fiction with a light touch of magical realism? Read by: Meredith Lewis (Orange County Campus Librarian) & Courtney Bippley (Main Campus Librarian) Why did you choose to read this book? Meredith: Honestly? The description was really interesting-- a San Francisco robotics engineer "adopts" a mysterious international sourdough starter and gets involved in a
This book was read by Courtney Bippley, a Reference Librarian at the Main Campus Library Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. Just a few years before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a brand new guy, a brand
We've got lots of new books at the Orange County Campus Library for the new semester! Remember to check out the Read Great Things 2023 Challenge-- there are lots of options below! Onto the new books! There are ... Some books with pictures, including graphic novels, a graphic memoir, a graphic biography, and some comics-- A few fresh new memoirs Some biographies, individual and group-- A pair of 12 steppers And rounding it out with little professional reading Want to check out one or more of
Reader, I confess: I've never read Jane Eyre. I had a profoundly bad experience with another Brontë sister in high school that has biased me against the other Brontës. Fair? Nope, but sometimes reading isn't fair when there are lots of other choices out there. However, I did recently read Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye about a orphan-turned-governess (with some life experience in between) who keeps coming across the opportunity to murder folks. She picks up a copy of Jane Eyre and is compelled to
One item of wrap-up before moving on to 2024-- if you haven't filled out the Read Great Things 2023 completion form to document your "win," you have until Thursday, February 15 to do so. Not sure if you've "won"? Click on the form or the 2023 challenge information guide. You'll have needed to complete 10 categories in total, but can double-dip, so five well-chosen books can do it for you. No sign up was necessary, so if you read it in 2023, you could win! Prizes will be available late February
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