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The Durham Tech Library is thrilled to announce our Crafternoon schedule for the Fall 2023 semester. Crafternoons are co-sponsored by the Durham Tech Library and a generous grant from the Eichholz Foundation. Planners and Notebooks OCC: Tuesday, August 29, 11:00-1:00 in the OCC Lobby Main Campus: Wednesday, August 30, 1:00-3:00 in the Main Campus Library Downstairs Group Study Area (MC05-105A) All materials will be provided for students, faculty, and staff to decorate their own 12-month agenda
Memes. They rise and fall through blog posts and comment sections. Places like Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter are full of them. Allow me to introduce you to my favorite meme of 2017: I lik the bred. (I know it's only February, but I'm confident about this.) For an explanation of the origin, history, and evolution of the meme see this summary on Buzzfeed. So, without further ado, here are a few Durham Tech Library additions: My name is book and in the daye I wayt for student eyes to laye upon my
The final Library Fest Podcast is out now! I was honored to interview three amazing, influential, and accomplished people for Out Loud in the Library and Library Fest-- Gordon C. James, Volkan Alkanoglu, and Tayari Jones. You can find the first two interviews at the links below. Gordon C. James interview with Out Loud in the Library. Volkan Alkanoglu interview with Out Loud in the Library. However, this blog post is to highlight the interview I did with Tayari Jones, author of An American
In a place that was once the center of the voting rights movement, another struggle faces Lowndes County, Alabama--basic sanitation. Catherine Coleman Flowers examines the class, racial, and geographic conditions that lead to many people not having an affordable way of disposing of sewage. --paraphrased from publisher's summary Title: Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret Author: Catherine Coleman Flowers Genre: Memoir; Nonfiction Read Great Things 2023 Categories: A book about
Title: There Is No Good Card For This: What To Say And Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, And Unfair To People You Love Authors: Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell When someone you know is hurting, you want to let her know that you care. But many people don’t know what words to use—or are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. This thoughtful, instructive guide, from empathy expert Dr. Kelsey Crowe and greeting card maverick Emily McDowell, blends well-researched, actionable advice with the no
There should be another word for cookbooks that are only recipes for baked desserts. Bakebooks? Dessertbooks? Bakertbooks? We can workshop it later. Regardless of what they are called, the library has them! I used one to make a pie on Memorial Day and it did not disappoint. The recipe came from Pie Every Day: Recipes and Slices of Life by Pat Willard. Click through to the rest of the post to see how my pie turned out! Now don't worry. If you aren't a "pie person" you'll still find plenty of
National Library Week is April 23-29, 2023, a time celebrate our nation's libraries, library workers' contributions, and promote library use and support. This year's theme is There's More to the Story. Today is Right to Read Day, a call to action to fight back against censorship to defend, protect, and celebrate your right to read freely. The American Library Association has also released its most challenged books of 2022 as part of its State of American Libraries 2022 report [link to webpage
Ever notice an RV parked by Walmart at midnight? Ever wonder where your Amazon packages came from? Do you imagine that life on the road embodies the American dream? Find out! This book was read by Susan Baker, Main Campus Reference Librarian. T itle: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century Author: Jessica Bruder Genre: Travel...sociology...retirement...economics...poverty? Nonfiction works, too. Read Great Things 2021 categories: A book about social justice or equity, A
Thanks to a grant that earmarked $3000 for library resources, the Durham Tech library expanded its collections of Middle East-related materials. The grant was funded by the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studie s. Made possible by Consortium’s Title VI funding, the grant, locally administered by Shannon Hahn, allowed the library to add over 100 new titles to its collections. Here is a list of the titles the library purchased and here is the Middle Eastern Studies LibGuide. The library
The Durham Tech Library is thrilled to introduce our new library team member, reference librarian Adrian Knight (he/him). Adrian has worked in the NC Community College library system for several years and most recently comes to us from College of the Albemarle. A traveler since infanthood, Adrian currently has 48 stamps on his passport with Italy as his favorite place he's visited so far and was actually born in Vatican City. He also loves cooking (especially Italian food) and is excited to