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Why did you choose to read this book? I’m planning on attending the Durham Reads Together event, An Evening With Sarah Vowell, and I wanted to read one of her books first to get a feel for who she is and her perspective on history. It will be at the Carolina Theater on October 9th, 7:00 PM. It's free! What did you like about it? I like that it made history accessible. Historical non-fiction is outside of my normal reading wheel house but the book is written as a narrative and she does a good job
Title: And the Mountains Echoed Author: Khaled Hosseini Genre: fiction What did you like about it? Through various characters from 1952 until the current decade, it provides different views of Afghanistan. Some characters are born there and leave; some are not from there, but end up there; and others spend their entire lives there. The book portrays Afghanistan as a place of poverty in relation to the West, of hardship and suffering; and that is even before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
Title: Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup Author: Jeff Koehler Genre: Nonfiction [caption id="attachment_4259" align="aligncenter" width="329"] Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup by Jeff Koehler[/caption] This book was read by Courtney Bippley - a Reference Librarian at the Main Campus Library. Why did you choose to read this book? I love coffee. My appreciation
Moving into the heart of the Spring semester, the Instructional Technologies team would like to highlight a few tips and time-saving strategies that can be applied as you use Canvas as an instructor. Our goal is to provide tools that you can add to your Canvas toolbox as you become a more efficient, effective, and expert Canvas user. For each tool, view the video demonstration and access the quick reference guide for additional information and links to supplementary resources. Emojis in Module
If we don't have something you need, we can probably get it! As great a collection as we have, Durham Tech Library doesn't have ALL the books we'd love to have. With the funding we receive, we try to purchase books most needed to support courses being taught at the college, but we can't buy everything that we want and that our very diverse users would like. Even if a book isn't in our immediate collection, though, we might still be able to get access to it, so if you don't see a book you want
There were several untrue news stories circulating on social media during the recent U.S. presidential election. It's important to determine whether stories and news sources are reliable and accurate. Librarians at Northern Essex Community College Library in Massachusetts created and shared this useful resource guide: http://necc.mass.libguides.com/ fakenewsvsrealnews/ fakenews [caption id="attachment_2672" align="alignright" width="630"] Fake News Story Infographic, published by The Huffington
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
[caption id="attachment_3559" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Available at Main Campus on the New Book Shelf[/caption] Title: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Author: Kate Moore Genre: Historical Nonfiction Why did you choose to read this book? Well, I'd heard a lot about it. I tend to like historical nonfiction that tells the stories of groups of people who maybe aren't as known in American history. I read Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth
This book was read by Meredith Lewis, a Reference Librarian at (mostly) the Orange County Campus Library. Why did you choose to read this book? The Orange County Campus has a new small collection of medical and scientific nonfiction, and this one stood out because it was about an entire body system that, frankly, I realized I knew very, very little about. Plus, who doesn’t want to know more about what goes on inside their own body (presented in an interesting and easy-to-read way)? I’m also
This is the first in a new type of blog post from the Durham Tech Library. Each post will allow a staff member to highlight a book they've read recently. This post is brought to you by Stephen Brooks, reference librarian, who read the book Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. This novel follows several members of an American family, the Berglunds, as well as their close friends and lovers, as complex and troubled relationships unfold over many years. The book follows them through the last decades of the