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Courtney talks with Larry Chapman about how to get free financial coaching at Durham Tech! The conversation covers who is eligible, what to bring, what you could ask, and favorite financial advice. And, of course, books about money! As always, transcripts of episodes are available on the Out Loud in the Library website. Visit www.annualcreditreport.com to get your free credit reports every year. Reach Larry Chapman at Chapmanl@durhamtech.edu, or on the Durham Tech website. Larry recently read
[gallery type="square" link="none" columns="2" size="full" ids="4267,4268"] This series was read by Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Graphic Novel/Comic Book #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book that contains a supernatural creature [loads], occurrence [more than one], or event [very much yes] Find out more about the Read Great Things Challenge here. Why did you choose to read this book? I picked up Monstress Vol. 1 a year or so ago in an effort to check out some new
This book was read by Courtney Bippley, a Reference Librarian at the Main Campus Library. [caption id="attachment_2317" align="aligncenter" width="317"] An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir[/caption] Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from
It's National Library Week and, while we celebrate Banned Books Week in the fall, the first weekday of National Library Week always highlights an individual's right to choose their own reading materials or choose age-appropriate materials for those in their care without restricting others' access. What can you do to help or "celebrate" Right to Read Day? You can always read a banned or challenged book . The American Library Association, a professional association for all kinds of libraries-
This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian. Title: Dominicana Author: Angie Cruz Genre: Historical Fiction, Coming-of-age stories [a Bildungsroman] #ReadGreatThings2019 Category: A book about an immigrant or immigration Dominicana has been selected as Good Morning America's Cover to Cover book club's inaugural pick. Why did you choose to read this book? Well, I read a review of it and realized it would fit one of my remaining #ReadGreatThings2019 categories
Need some more details? Here you go! Looking for the completion form so you can get yourself a tote bag? Here's where you can find the Read Great Things 2018 Challenge Completion form. Need more information about the Read Great Things 2018 Challenge? Here's where you can find the Durham Tech Library blog post about the Read Great Things 2018 Challenge. Looking for information about the Read Great Things 2019 Challenge? You can find out more at the celebration or posted on this blog in January
Canvas offers plenty of built-in tools to help you teach, communicate, and stay organized, and everyone seems to use them in their own way. Maybe you’re setting up Modules to guide students through your course materials, using Rubrics to clarify expectations, or creating quick Quizzes for practice and feedback. No matter how you teach, there are lots of ways to make Canvas work for you and create an even better learning experience for you students. A few tools we see faculty using often include
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
Have you seen the new images of space from the James Webb Telescope? We have and we're excited! In addition to birds, octopuses, dinosaurs, plants, chess, cats, football, real estate, kelp, swimming, astrology, funny internet graphics, The Beatles, and art (to name a few of our department's enthusiastic specific interests), we also like space! Keep reading for some resources to learn more about space and even a little fiction to expand your imagination. Watch a variety of streaming videos from
I think that there are few things more wonderful than new books, but I acknowledge that, being a librarian, I'm biased. See a full list of the gems recently added to our collection in this PDF: New Books. Highlights from the full list include: Ivory, Horn, and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis by Ronald Orenstein This alarming book tells a crime story that takes place thousands of miles away, in countries that few of us may visit. But like the trade in illegal drugs, the