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Happy Open Education Week 2020! Open Education is a movement that promotes using free educational tools--such as textbooks--that instructors have the right to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. These five permissions are known as "The 5 Rs" of Open Educational Resources (OER). Be on the lookout for more posts about Open Education this week. Today, we will start with an overview of what makes a resource "open." What do the 5 Rs mean? Why are the 5 Rs important? There is no financial
Explore new frontiers with a book set in or about space with the Read Great Things 2021 Challenge. Keep reading for some suggestions, including some double-dippers. Double dip and get into a novella series to fill that short book category (could we also call these LITTLE DIPPERS? Eh?): Double dip and travel to space with a book with pictures: Explore new frontiers with some fiction from our collections: Or get the facts with nonfiction about space: Or just read about cats in space (as ya do)
When you're doing research online and find some resources, how do you know that they're credible resources? There are billions of websites on the Internet and it can be difficult to discern which ones to use in your research. Here's a video from Films on Demand that provides an excellent overview of evaluating websites for credible information. One tool mentioned in the video, which is good for evaluating a website's credibility, is the CRAAP test. CRAAP stands for " currency, relevance
These books may not have any sugar in them, but they are still pretty sweet. Read one while you're waiting for that sugar-induced haze to pass. [gallery link="none" type="slideshow" ids="3674,3675,3676,3677,3678,3679,3680,3681,3682,3683,3684" orderby="rand"]
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Summer has really and truly arrived, which means it may be too hot to use some of our awesome cookbooks,* but that doesn't mean you can't check out some of our awesome other food-related books and movies. [gallery type="slideshow" link="none" size="medium" ids="2255,2256,2257,2258,2259,2260,2261,2262,2263,2264,2265,2266,2267,2268,2269,2270,2271" orderby="rand"] *Check out section TX in all campus libraries for cookbooks of all cuisines and sizes.
We are starting off the New Year with a few technical difficulties. The most important of these is that the computers in the library computer lab have crashed, and so right now our computer lab is closed. Our upstairs public computers are available for use; you can print b/w copies for 5 cents a page or we can help you save your work to print later. Free printing (10 pages a day) for Durham Tech students is available at the Wynn Center computer lab. Our IT department is working hard to resolve
Take home a stack of books to keep you company over the holidays! [gallery link="none" type="rectangular" ids="3738,3739,3740,3741,3742,3743,3744,3745,3746" orderby="rand"]
Need some info on your ballot, your rights, and other information about voting early (by Sat., Oct. 31) or on Election Day (Tues., Nov. 3) in NC? Check out our first Library podcast episode: Out Loud in the Library-- Early Voting with Erin Riney with your host Courtney Bippley You can also check out the Library blog's Informed Voter Resources post. Hey, Durham Tech faculty, staff, and students! Have you already voted? Send me (Meredith Lewis-- lewisma @ durhamtech . edu) your voting selfie and