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Dr. Maya Angelou, one of the most celebrated and admired poets, novelists, and civil-rights activists in the United States, died last month at her home in Winston Salem. The library has many of Maya Angelou's works including her novels, poetry collections, autobiographies, essays, and cookbook. Check the online catalog for titles. Here are some tributes to her life and work: New York Times CNN NPR http://mayaangelou.com/bio/
The Durham Tech Library accomplished a lot this year! We held 72 class instruction sessions in the library to teach 1221 students about information literacy, citations, and how to use our resources. Between the big windows and the stands on the lower level we put up 31 themed displays. Nine hundred and forty-seven new books and DVDs were added to our collection, and that doesn't even include donations from a variety of generous individuals. In cooperation with NC LIVE, we've added 59 new
Durham Tech Library is celebrating the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community this month. We have a display of books on the lower level of the library. [caption id="attachment_4295" align="aligncenter" width="3024"] Image from www.dclibrary.org[/caption] Explore the library’s guide to LGBTQ resources for books, ebooks, DVDs, streaming video, and recommended websites: http://durhamtech.libguides.com/LGBTQ Pick up a
As Early Voting begins today in North Carolina, the library has a display of resources about voting rights and history to remind us of the importance of casting our ballots. There are also excellent ebooks in ebrary and streaming video in Films on Demand. Visit the NC Voter Guide to locate early voting places, your polling location, and more. Here are some of the library's books, ebooks, and DVDs about voting rights and history. [gallery type="slideshow" size="medium" ids="2594,2593,2592,2591
Thanks to NC LIVE, we now have access to even more e-books- the Open Library Borrowing Collection is now a part of NC LIVE! This new source of freely available downloadable eBooks is available to all North Carolinians. Interested? Find out more at http://nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=288 (password required off campus, contact us if you need it).
The Durham Tech Academic Calendar at http://www.durhamtech.edu/html/prospective/calendar.htm tells us that fall break for students is almost here! During fall break, the Durham Tech ERC main campus library will operate on a reduced schedule, from 8:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday October 11 and Friday October 12, then closed on Saturday October 13. No classes are in session during this time, so the ERC library computer lab will be closed Thursday and Friday and no free printing will be available
In 2017, the state of North Carolina proclaimed the second Monday in October as Indigenous People's Day. What is Indigenous People's Day? An alternative to Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day is "a celebration ... to bring acknowledgment to the Native population" and remove the focus from Columbus, a man who caused harm to Native populations. Want to learn more about Indigenous people's history and culture? Here's a very small selection of the books available through the Durham Tech library
There are lots of movies coming out this fall based on books. Several book adaptations have been released as films earlier this year as well. Check out these books from the library to read before or after watching the movie version! For a more complete list of book adaptations to film, visit the article " Books to Movies & TV in 2019: 50+ Upcoming Adaptations" from Bibliofile's Review of books.
Durham Tech Library and Student Government Association are excited to host fun craft events for students! This will be an ongoing event series in Fall and Spring semesters. We will host this first event at both Orange County Campus and Main Campus Library. PROJECT: Make & decorate your own academic planner or notebook LOCATION: Orange County Campus, room 104 PRESENTER: Meredith Lewis, OCC Librarian WHEN: Thursday, August 24, 11:30-1:00 pm & PROJECT: Make & decorate your own academic planner or
National Library Week is April 10th-16th. This year's theme is "Libraries Transform." Over the week, we'll be digitally unveiling our new posters featuring Durham Tech students about ways that the Durham Tech libraries are here to help you transform into your most successful self. The posters will also be on display by the end of the week around our campus libraries for you to see in person. Come on in and check them out*! *Figuratively-- these posters are not to be taken out of the library, but