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This week we'll be showcasing some book reviews! Want to review something you've read or watched for the library blog? Let us know by filling out the Durham Tech Book or Media Review form. Being in your late 20s and not knowing what you want to do is hard, so of course when your friend from your brief foray into boarding school asks you to come take care of her step-children who catch fire when upset or scared, you say yes. Right? Sure. You weren't doing anything anyway. Title: Nothing to See
Can you believe that February 14th is right around the corner? It's like it popped up out of nowhere! (See what I did there?) The Student Government Association and the Library are giving out pretty scrapbook paper for you to create your own pop-up cards. If you would like some, email us at library@durhamtech.edu and we'll schedule a time for you to pick it up. What kind of pop-up cards, you ask? Well, there are so many choices! Check out these delightful options below, and keep scrolling to see
Congressman and civil rights advocate, John Lewis’ graphic novel March: Book One, has been selected for the 2014 Durham Community Reads program. March: Book One is the first installation of a trilogy, and spans John Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall. Students in
This movie was watched by Julie Humphrey, Library Director. Title: At Eternity’s Gate Director: Julian Schnabel Genre: Drama Why did you choose to watch this movie? I liked one of the director’s previous films ( The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and I wanted to learn more about Vincent Van Gogh. Willem Dafoe was nominated for a best actor academy award for this role and I really like his acting and I enjoy biopics. What did you like about it? It was a fascinating and vivid portrait of the
This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian, and is available for checkout at the Orange County Campus Library. Title: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World Author: Steve Brusatte Genre: Popular Science, General Dinosaur Awesomeness #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A popular science book; A book that takes place during or is about a historical event 50 years or more in the past [this historical event took place a few million years
There are lots of treasures to be discovered in Durham Tech's Digital Archives! The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We have partnered with the Digital Heritage Center to digitize and publish Durham Tech's historic materials online. Click here to view more than 100 archived documents including yearbooks, newsletters, annual reports, and
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
Join us on Thursday, April 21 from 12:30-2:00 PM in the Wynn Building Multipurpose Room for Taste & See, where you will get to taste delicious food made by Durham Tech’s own Culinary Program, learn fun food history facts, and even check out a cookbook to take home from the Durham Tech Library’s cookbook collection! Food while supplies last. This event is a collaboration between Durham County Library’s Library Fest, Durham Tech’s Culinary Program, Durham Tech Library, and the Viva the Arts
The library has lots of inspiring biographies of African Americans. Check out our display on the lower level to learn some of these stories: African American Entrepreneurs African American Women Scientists and Inventors American Tapestry : The story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama The Autobiography of Medgar Evers Hand in Hand: Ten Black men who changed America Ida: A sword among lions, Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching The Life of Sojourner Truth:
This book. This book, y'all. This book gave me a big hug. It cuddled me close and told me that everything is not going to be alright. But it also gave me hope that some things can be okay if we're willing to work hard to make it that way. It changed my life. Not in a hyperbolic way. In the way that it shifted my thinking so much that it will have an influence on my actions for the rest of my life. Title: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis Editors: Ayana