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It's been twenty years since September 11, 2001. The Northern Durham Center Library currently has a 9/11 Remembrance display. As with all our displays, all books are available for checkout. Keep reading for more information about these items. Some of these books are on loan from the Main Campus Library, but will be available for pickup at the Northern Durham Center Library until Oct. 4. You can put a hold on them through our catalog or contact the library to request a book for pickup at any of
Loaner AND Keeper Chromebooks (and Calculators and Portable Monitors): Digital Champion Grant Update
In December 2025, the Durham Tech Library began distributing "keeper" Chromebooks to qualifying students as the final part of our NC DIT Digital Champion Grant. Our first sixteen students who have picked up their keeper Chromebook (and the others who have qualified) expressed interest in the program on their intake or renewal form, demonstrated need by borrowing a loaner laptop for two terms or more, and met progression goals according to their program. Qualifying students turned in their loaner
Researching scientific and medical topics can sometimes be daunting. Sometimes you want to go to a big lots-of-topics-in-one database like ProQuest Central or search everything available in the Durham Tech digital and physical collection all at once using the Search Library option, but other times you want to go directly to a database that caters to the subject at hand. ScienceDirect is one of our specialty databases containing primarily ebooks and peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles about
Let the brief taste of a winter wonderland linger by reading these books. All of them have the word "snow" in the title, and all of them are available at the library. [caption id="attachment_1058" align="aligncenter" width="198"] The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey[/caption] Set in Alaska in the 1920's this book binds the drama of the landscape with magical realism to weave a tale you won't easily forget. Find it in our catalog here. [caption id="attachment_1059" align="aligncenter" width="195"] Snow
This book was read by Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Title: The Nickel Boys Author: Colson Whitehead Genre: Historical Fiction #ReadGreatThings2019 Category: A book suggested by a Durham Tech librarian Also Ekpe Udoh's October 2019 Book Club pick! Why did you chose to read this book? I read a Time Magazine interview with Colson Whitehead and had also read an article about the boy's school in Florida on which he based the book. The final quote from a man who had been there really
Do you ever get down after reading the news? Ever feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the climate crisis? Ever feel alone in worrying about the future? Do you feel left out of conversations around sustainability and eco-consciousness? Join our reading circle! In the spring 2022 semester, the Durham Tech Library will be hosting a reading circle for the book All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, an anthology edited by Dr. Ayana Johnson and Dr. Katherine Wilkinson
April 3-9, 2022 is National Library Week, a time celebrate our nation's libraries, library workers' contributions and promote library use and support. This year's theme is Connect with your Library. How can you connect with your Durham Tech Library? Well, follow the blog (hi!) and you can definitely check out our social media (especially our much more active Instagram but also our less active Facebook). You can also attend some of our Crafternoons or other events, such as those in collaboration
In a repeating series highlighting current and recent reads around Durham Tech, here’s what the Durham Tech English & Communications Department is currently reading and has recently read: [gallery link="none" size="medium" ids="2884,2885,2886,2892,2897,2898,2905,2907,2909,2911,2912,2913" orderby="rand"] As always, if you’re interested in a title, you can either search our catalog to see if we have the book or request it through interlibrary loan if we don’t have it. Need help doing either of
Title: There There Author: Tommy Orange Genre: fiction Why did you choose to read this book? There There appeared on so many best-books-of-2018 lists and received rave reviews from authors and critics alike that I felt like it was following me, or the universe was telling me to read this book. Also, my book club chose it. Tommy Orange’s debut novel traces the journey, through chapters named after the characters, of about a dozen Native Americans to the Big Oakland Powwow in California. It is set
Marley Dias, age 11, is an inspiration! When she got frustrated by the lack of diversity in her school’s required reading, she did something about it. One evening at dinner, she spoke to her mom about her frustration. "I told her I was sick of reading about white boys and dogs," Dias said, pointing specifically to "Where the Red Fern Grows" and the "Shiloh" series. Dias’ activist mother helped her realize that she could do something about it. Marley told her mother that she was "going to start a