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Are you participating in the Read Great Things Challenge? Have you heard of it before? Are you interested in participating next year? Wondering why we started a reading challenge at Durham Tech? Learn all these things and more on our last podcast episode of the year! I interview Meredith Lewis, OCC Librarian, and we talk about the reading challenge, why reading can be good for you, and what she is reading right now. Out Loud in the Library will return in January 2021 with new episodes, new
The Library, Student Government Association, and Student Activities Office are excited to announce our fall Crafternoon events schedule. Supplies are provided and all students, faculty, and staff are welcome. Come meet new friends, try new crafts, and relieve some stress! We already held our first event of the semester-- decorating agendas or notebooks--but we've got more planned! Event Location Date Time Felt Pennants & 'A League of Their Own' Movie Main Campus, Wynn Multipurpose Room Main
NC LIVE recently announced the addition of 495 titles to its HomeGrown e-books collection. The new titles come from five publishers, including The University of North Carolina Press. The HomeGrown collection has grown to include 3,600 e-books, which are hosted on the BiblioBoard platform. They are organized into "curations": fiction, nonfiction and young adult/juvenile titles. You can also use the site's search tool to find books by keyword. Each curation is sub-divided into categories. For
The library provides more than 95 databases and online resources for students, faculty, and staff. Here is the complete list of all databases that can be browsed by name, subject, or database type: http://durhamtech.libguides.com/az.php For remote off-campus access, use WebAdvisor login credentials. The following new resources have just been added! Mango Languages: Language-learning software with over 70 world language courses and over 17 ESL courses. CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Database of
This book was read by Courtney Bippley-Reference Librarian at the Main Campus Library Why did you choose to read this book? The premise of this book was intriguing to me. Using mediums to get intelligence from ghosts of soldiers seems like a logical tactic if ghosts were a real and reliable phenomenon. What did you like about it? I like that the book didn’t shy away from the culture of the time in regard to racism and sexism. The author worked these issues into the plot, characters, and setting
The library recently added many new feature films and documentaries to our collection. You may check out two movies at a time for one week with your library card. Here are some of the new titles: The Artist Beginners The Descendents Do the Right Thing Hugo One Woman, One Vote Prohibition Roots A Separation Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Twilight series War Horse Water for Elephants and many more. Use the online catalog to search for movie titles of interest to you. Enjoy!
[caption id="attachment_582" align="aligncenter" width="426" class=" "] With a touchscreen as well as textured buttons, the MagniLink Vision TTS assists readers who have visual impairments.[/caption] The library installed a modular video magnifier-- the MagniLink Vision TTS reader--which enhances or enables reading of printed books for people with a range of visual impairments. Features of the MagniLink Vision TTS include text-to-speech, adjustable zoom and a variety of background and text
The world lost Dr. Phail Wynn Jr. in 2018 but his legacy in the Durham Tech Library is expanding regularly thanks to a generous donation from GlaxoSmithKline to establish the Dr. Phail Wynn, Jr. Library Endowment. Here are some newly acquired titles from the collection. All books relate to one of the seven themes of the collection. The themes are: ecology and the environment, cultural awareness, global citizenship, teaching tolerance, appreciating diversity, fighting poverty, and promoting world
In our last blog post, Canvas Discussions Redesign Coming Soon, we provided a first look at the upcoming redesigned Discussions tool. At this time, we suggest marking your calendar; the more modernized look and feel for Discussions will be here May 13th! We’ve explored the expected changes and have created a more personalized demonstration video to help you navigate the redesign and learn a few tips before it arrives: Tips and Resources Your students may gain the ability to edit, delete, and
Did you know that the Durham Tech library offers more than 200 e-books in the ... For Dummies series? Here's how you can find them. From the Durham Tech library home page, choose E-books and Digital Audio Books. Then, from the list of databases, click on ebrary Academic and Public Library Complete. (You will need to log in with your WebAdvisor ID and password if you're accessing this from off campus.) Click on "Advanced" next to the "Search" button to use the advanced search feature. This takes