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On March 31 st, the transition to New Quizzes in Canvas officially kicked off with activation of the new quizzing engine in your Practice Course. That week, Instructional Technologies also offered Canvas New Quizzes: Bootcamp sessions to help introduce New Quizzes. If you were unable to join us in-person or during the webinar, we highly encourage you to access the workshop recording below to learn more about the basics of New Quizzes including how to: access and navigate around the interface
It's time for another showcase of the newest books in the Orange County Campus collection. Click through to see novel nonfiction about birds, life stories, education, fast shipping, and meditations on life and fresh contemporary, historical, political thriller, mystery, and fantasy fiction (including two series). Our new nonfiction-- and our freshest fiction-- Want to put a hold on a book in the Orange County Campus collection to either pick up at OCC or at the Main Campus Library? Click on the
Summer is a great time for movie watching! You may borrow two movies at a time for a week. New Feature Films: Anna Karenina Argo Django Unchained Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln The Master Perks of Being a Wallflower Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Documentaries: The Abolitionists Brushes with Life: Art, artists, and mental illness Bully Cuban Missile Crisis: Three men go to war Dropout Nation Forensics on Trial From the Other Side How to Survive a Plague Hot Coffee: Is justice being
Title: Leaving the Sea: Stories Author: Ben Marcus Genre: short stories / experimental fiction Read Great Things Challenge 2018 category: a book you chose for the cover; a book with a supernatural creature, occurrence, or event (maybe) Why did you choose to read this book? I was drawn in by the cover art at first. The reviews on the back of the dust jacket also made the stories sound interesting to me. One of my favorite authors, Michael Chabon, has a blurb on the back of the book praising
[caption id="attachment_4172" align="aligncenter" width="251"] Available at Main Campus Library PN 1997.2 .F56 2018[/caption] This movie was watched by Julie Humphrey, Library Director. Title: The Florida Project Director: Sean Baker Genre: Drama Why did you choose to watch this movie? I had noticed that this film was on many “best” lists for the year and I had seen the director’s previous film Tangerine and really liked it. I enjoy supporting and watching independent films. What did you like
Interested in Durham Tech's strategic planning process? Strategic Planning Committee member (and fellow librarian) Stephen Books answers all my questions. What is a strategic plan? Where is the data coming from? How will it be implemented? All this and more in our conversation. Stephen read March, which is available at the Durham Tech Library. He's counting it on his 2021 Read Great Things Challenge list. Are you participating in the reading challenge yet? Find out more on the library blog!
Calling all nursing students and instructors—we have a new audio and video collection for you! Nursing: Current Concepts and Practices Collection from Films on Demand is designed to help students pass licensure exams and prepare for long-term job success. It includes titles from the last 5 years from trusted nursing education sources such as Medcom-Trainex, Elsevier, Medivision, American Academy of Pediatrics, and more! Because this is a database of only video and audio resources, it’s perfect
[caption id="attachment_4019" align="aligncenter" width="200"] (Coming soon to the Durham Tech Main Campus and OCC Libraries)[/caption] This book was read by Meredith Lewis, [mostly] the Orange County Campus Librarian. Title of book: Lincoln in the Bardo Author: George Saunders Genre: Literary Fiction #ReadGreatThings2018 Categor(ies): A fictionalized account of a real person's life & A book that contains a supernatural creature, occurrence, or event Why did you choose to read this book? The
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
It's spring: the days are lengthening, pollen is in the air (and on sidewalks, cars ... it's everywhere!). After the darkness, dormancy and hibernation that mark winter, new life abounds in spring. In my neighborhood, azaleas are in full bloom: purple, shades of pink or white flowers, with bumblebees abuzz. I've seen fox kits, which were born under a neighbor's shed, and a baby possum outside my backdoor. The yellow-bellied sapsuckers have left for cooler climates and other birds have returned