Continuing Education courses for Summer II and Fall 2026 are now available to view in Self-Service. Course sections listed with a begin date after July 1, 2026 will open for registration on July 1, 2026.
Looking for a person? You may also search our Employee Directory.
Since its inception in 1982, Banned Books Week has stood as an an important week of awareness and advocacy against library and book censorship. 2021 and 2022 have seen an unprecedented rise in attempted book bans across schools and libraries in America piloted by advocacy groups, some having taken place in nearby counties. Started in the 1980s as an awareness campaign by the cooperation of the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom and the publishing community, Banned
[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
I attended #OpenEd21, the online Open Education Conference, from October 18 - 22, 2021. There were many outstanding sessions at the conference. Fortunately, many of the presentations were recorded and made publicly available. I highlight a few of the sessions I attended below. I recommend scanning the presentation titles on the conference schedule for those that appear interesting and relevant to you. At the page for each presentation, I recommend also following the link to its topic (such as
Announcing our library's new reference service, Book A Librarian! Do you need help doing research for an assignment for class? Want to learn more about searching for resources in general? Want someone to walk you through citing a paper in a new-to-you format? Have a busy schedule and want to make sure that a librarian is available to help you when you come into the library? Now you can make an appointment with one of the Durham Tech librarians for some one-on-one help! What we can do: - Give you
Reading and writing are a huge part of being a college student. Essays, research papers and exams require students to think critically and put those thoughts into words. Many written assignments necessitate citations, with which students demonstrate that they have consulted sources and synthesized the information they discover with their own thoughts into a cogent analysis with original conclusions. The library is here to help! The library on the main campus has some books at the circulation
With the spring semester over and done*, summer reading is upon us! Looking for some light structure to your summer reading? Why not try the Durham Tech Library's Read Great Things Challenge? What is the Read Great Things Challenge? The Read Great Things Challenge is a reading challenge sponsored by the Durham Tech Library throughout 2018 that encourages folks to diversify or increase their reading goals by completing books that fit into at least 10 of the following 12 categories: A book being
Today is the last official day of Mental Health Awareness Month. Since taking care of your mental health is a year-long, lifelong process, just focusing on it for one month is obviously not enough, but as with all health awareness days or months, in order to be effective, the focus should not just be on short-term knowledge, but on long-term interventions for change. While most folks find value in treating themselves to short-term relaxing activities*, when that no longer becomes effective or if
Take a look! We have added a lot of new fiction, literature, and poetry as well as non-fiction titles on many other topics. We invite you to browse these titles and check them out! To check for item availability and call number location, use the Durham Tech library catalog . New Reference Books! These items can be used in the library but not taken out. [gallery columns="4" ids="725,724,723,722,721,720,719,718,717,716,715" orderby="rand"] New Circulating Books! These items can be checked out for
NC LIVE recently announced the addition of 495 titles to its HomeGrown e-books collection. The new titles come from five publishers, including The University of North Carolina Press. The HomeGrown collection has grown to include 3,600 e-books, which are hosted on the BiblioBoard platform. They are organized into "curations": fiction, nonfiction and young adult/juvenile titles. You can also use the site's search tool to find books by keyword. Each curation is sub-divided into categories. For
We’re all looking to succeed and make it to the next level, right? Step up your career prep and achieve success with PrepSTEP. Need to study for the NCLEX, TEAS, Nurse Aide, Culinary Arts, Cosmetology, or other career certifications, including additional allied health exams? Need to study for a placement test, boost your math, science, or writing skills, or even work on your basic computer skills? PrepSTEP provides interactive tutorials, practice tests for entrance exams and occupational exams