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[caption id="attachment_607" align="alignleft" width="171"] Santosh 'Toshi' Shonek[/caption] Our NDC librarian, Santosh 'Toshi' Shonek, has published her third volume of poetry, called Take My Love for Granted, which is now available for checkout from the libraries. Toshi's daughter created the art work for each of her book covers. Toshi has worked at Durham Tech for about thirteen years. Before Durham Tech, she was a librarian at Duke University. Toshi recalls how she began writing poetry, "One
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Explore the powerful stories of influential women throughout history! This documentary about the trajectory of an African-American girl wonder whose mathematical genius would catapult astronauts into space. Born in 1918, Johnson graduated high school at the age of 14, college at 18, and went on to a career with NASA where she broke race and gender barriers. Johnson not only succeeded in a white, male-dominated field, she excelled. In July of 1920, all eyes were on Nashville, Tennessee as anti-
In addition to our computers upstairs, our main campus (ERC) library is glad to be able to offer a computer lab that is open to all current Durham Tech students! In the ERC lab, which is down the stairs inside the library and immediately to the right, our lab monitors offer technical support, a scanner is available, and you can print up to 10 black and white pages for free each day. Subsequent black and white pages are 5 cents each, and all color copies are 25 cents each. The lab is available to
Hello, Durham Tech! It's time for the next Durham Tech Library Book Club pick! Make sure to stop by our libguide for information and a book club interest form! The Library Book Club will be meeting on Thursday, December 1st, at 1 PM. The meeting will be held in the Schwartz room in the Educational Resources Center (Building 5). This time we will be discussing Ms. Marvel, Volume One: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona. The first volume in a ground-breaking series that won the Dwayne
Title: The Vanished Birds Author: Simon Jimenez Genre: science fiction; fantasy; dystopia; literary fiction Read Great Things 2021 Categories: A book about or set in space; A book about family; A book that takes place outside the continental United States; and A book suggested by a Durham Tech Librarian My own category: A book about travel, longing, and trying to find beauty in something that's broken This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian. Earth has
This book was read by Susan Baker, a Reference Librarian at the Main Campus Library. Title and Author: Meg & Jo by Virginia Kantra Genre: Contemporary romance, domestic fiction Read Great Things Challenge 2020 category: Recommended by a Durham Tech librarian Description: Meg March Brooke as a stay at home mom may not stretch the imagination too far, but Jo March as a prep cook and food blogger in New York City sure does! Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women is delightfully re-imagined by
At 14, children with magic are transported from their homes into The Scholomance until they "graduate" at 17, but many will not make it out alive due to mal (magic creatures) attacks and other accidents (and a few murders). While some students display an affinity for languages or alchemy, El has an affinity for dark magic and mass destruction and is having enough trouble with the challenge of not going dark (no matter what her grandmother's prophecy says), but finding friends and a way out
This is the first in a new type of blog post from the Durham Tech Library. Each post will allow a staff member to highlight a book they've read recently. This post is brought to you by Stephen Brooks, reference librarian, who read the book Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. This novel follows several members of an American family, the Berglunds, as well as their close friends and lovers, as complex and troubled relationships unfold over many years. The book follows them through the last decades of the
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