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The Library supports the Culinary Arts program and the Durham Tech community with cookbooks, ebooks, databases, and streaming video collections related to cooking, nutrition, food science, and more. Enjoy cooking and baking with this global collection of new cookbooks! We hope you find some inspiration here with new recipes and ideas. We also have cookbook ebooks available through the NC LIVE Home Grown eBooks, which includes a Food and Wine collection. The library also provides the Gale
The weather is finally changing, and we've got some fresh new fiction in our collection to cozy up. Check out the books highlighted below and on our new books shelves-- right before you go downstairs in the Main Campus Library and on the shelf along the back wall in the Orange County Campus Library. Prefer ebooks or audiobooks? Our NC Community College online library collection-- Dogwood Digital Library-- is available 24/7 on and off-campus with your Durham Tech username and password. Download
Can’t get enough streaming video? You’re in luck--the Durham Tech Library now has more online video content! AVON (Academic Video Online) is a new library database we’re excited to offer. It features 70,000 searchable, citable, closed captioned titles spanning a wide range of subject areas (allied health, art, automotive technologies, business, counseling, communication studies, criminal justice, engineering, history, psychology, sociology) and even feature films and award winners. Want to see
You may have heard of Dewey the cat from the book Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron. This book chronicles Dewey's story of living in a public library in Spencer, Iowa. Other libraries around the world also have cats. To see great photos and read other stories take a look at these fun links: [caption id="attachment_500" align="alignleft" width="244" class=" "] Spencer Public Library's Dewey the Cat[/caption] http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/quick-guide-library-cats/
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
Title: Purity Author: Jonathan Franzen Genre: fiction Why did you choose to read this book? I first read Franzen a few years ago. His book The Corrections received a lot of praise when it came out around 2000 and since. It’s a fantastic novel! I also loved his book Freedom. Though Purity received some mixed reviews, I thought it was worth a try. Purity is Pip Tyler’s real name. Pip, a 20-something woman with $130,000 in student debt and a job she doesn’t enjoy, is the central character. She
October is Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning History Month. Explore the library's resources featured below! HQ 73 .R54 2012 HQ 76.3 .U5 B696 2011 KF 4754.5 .M64 2011 Other selected titles: Becoming Visible : an illustrated history of lesbian and gay life in twentieth-century America HQ 75.16 .U6 M37 1998 Gay Rights Activists HQ 76.8 .U5 B86 2005 Hear Us Out! : lesbian and gay stories of struggle, progress and hope, 1950 to the present HQ 76.8 .U5 G357 2007 Making History : the
The library staff have compiled some of our favorite books and movies and have created a display downstairs on the lower level of the library. We hope you find something good to read or watch over your winter break! We would also enjoy hearing about your favorites. Feel free to post comments to share a book or movie that you recommend. Fiction: 11/22/63 by Stephen King PS 3561 .I483 A615 2011 20 under 40: Stories from the New Yorker PS 648 .S5 A1466 2010 Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Just in time for summer session, the Orange County Campus Library has some exciting new fiction and nonfiction in its collection. Looking to come to the OCC to visit? Our library hours have changed for the summer! Librarian services will be available Monday and Tuesday from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Main Campus is open Monday through Thursday for all your in-person Durham Tech Library needs. Virtual services are available Monday through Friday. Keep reading for the new books! We've got some novel
At this point in the semester, your Gradebook in Canvas has probably gathered quite a few assignment columns. The presentation of columns can seem cluttered, especially when viewing all student work in your Gradebook. While it is not hard to navigate your Canvas Gradebook, the Filters feature can help to improve clarity, organization, and ease of grading. Filters allow you to narrow your Gradebook view to specific: Modules (i.e., Week 2) Assignment Groups (i.e, Exams) Status (i.e., Missing, Late