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Calling all Students! Make plans to attend one of our Library Workshops this semester! Click here for the printable schedule: Flyer Library Workshops Fall 15 revised WHY? Learn important skills for success at Durham Tech and beyond! WHERE? ERC Main Campus Library Computer Lab room 520 (and Orange County Campus when noted below) WHO? Workshops are open to all Durham Tech students and no preregistration is required Library 101: Learn How to Use the Library Learn to locate books, DVDS, articles
Title: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Author: J.D. Vance Genre: memoir Why did you choose to read this book? I am a member of a two-person book club and the other member suggested this book. What did you like about it? It was a quick read. J.D. Vance details his upbringing in the Rust Belt as the descendant of Appalachian migrants to Ohio. He details the culture and communities of Scots-Irish people in West Virginia and Middletown, Ohio. Vance grew up in a close-knit
The Durham Tech Library is a member of the Dogwood Digital Library, a collection of online ebooks and audiobooks through the Overdrive/Libby app. Durham Tech faculty, staff, and students can check out books using their Durham Tech username and password, just like they can access databases off-campus. Ebooks and audiobooks check out for 21 days and can be read on your phone, tablet, or computer. Check out some of our staff recommendations that celebrate Black authors and experiences for Black
It's hot, y'all. It's hot and humid and sticky and gross. This is that part of a North Carolina summer my relatives in Pennsylvania tell me is inhumane. (The joke is on them when they get snow in November though.) Sometimes, when the sun seems angry at you personally and the world feels like it's falling apart (see: pandemic, police brutality, climate change, the 24-hour news cycle), there's nothing better than some ice cream to cool off and coat your insides with delicious sugar (or dairy-free
A.J. Fikry owns a bookstore, which he and his late wife Nic started on a vacationers' island in New England. The story begins with A.J. the widower wallowing in his grief each night with frozen dinners and red wine. As he works through his grief and begins to let people into his life, he finds meaning. Title: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Author: Gabrielle Zevin Genre: contemporary fiction Read Great Things 2022 Categories: A happy or hopeful book; A book about community; Blast from the past: A
Thanks to a grant that earmarked $3000 for library resources, the Durham Tech library expanded its collections of Middle East-related materials. The grant was funded by the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studie s. Made possible by Consortium’s Title VI funding, the grant, locally administered by Shannon Hahn, allowed the library to add over 100 new titles to its collections. Here is a list of the titles the library purchased and here is the Middle Eastern Studies LibGuide. The library
As temperatures drop and the leaves fall, the Durham Tech community has a very important event on the horizon. No, not the end of the fall semester, but the conclusion of the Read Great Things Challenge 2022 on December 31st! For the last five years, Durham Tech Library has held a fun, no-pressure initiative to keep students, staff, and community members reading throughout the calendar year. Plus, there are prizes to be awarded sometime in January 2023 for those who successfully submit their
June is LGBTQIA+ P R I D E Month! As President Joe Biden states in this year's Pride month proclamation: This month, we honor the resilience of LGBTQI+ people, who are fighting to live authentically and freely. We reaffirm our belief that LGBTQI+ rights are human rights. As we celebrate and honor members of the LGBTQIA+ community and the work of activists, we recognize the hard-fought achievements of the past and the urgency of supporting LGBTQIA+ rights today. Read on to learn more about Pride
Wait. Why would you celebrate banning books? It's actually the opposite. Banned Books Week draws attention to books that have been challenged for removal in library and school collections and draws attention to historical banning or removal of texts. Celebrating Banned Books Week reminds us of the power of words. Click through to read more about Banned Books Week, including the books that were most frequently challenged in 2020. Removing a book from the collection due to inaccuracies, age, or
October 1-7 is Banned Books Week. With the increase in challenges to libraries and school systems to limit access to reading materials, the Durham Tech Library feels it is more important than ever to mindfully reflect on the power that stories have to empower and educate. Banned Books Week highlights this issue in libraries and society and encourages people to consider the implications of book bans in society. While we strongly believe that parents and individuals have the right to choose to