Continuing Education courses for Summer II and Fall 2026 are now available to view in Self-Service. Course sections listed with a begin date after July 1, 2026 will open for registration on July 1, 2026.
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At the end of the spring semester, the Library and the Durham Tech Fine Arts classes come together to host a student art display. We look forward to this event each year. With the physical library closed, the annual art display was [obviously] cancelled, but we still wanted to find a way to highlight some of the wonderful art that Durham Tech students created this year, so we've created a virtual art show two ways. https://youtu.be/O6QznvW7iT4 Need to spend a little more timing browsing
October is Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning History Month. Explore the library's resources featured below! HQ 73 .R54 2012 HQ 76.3 .U5 B696 2011 KF 4754.5 .M64 2011 Other selected titles: Becoming Visible : an illustrated history of lesbian and gay life in twentieth-century America HQ 75.16 .U6 M37 1998 Gay Rights Activists HQ 76.8 .U5 B86 2005 Hear Us Out! : lesbian and gay stories of struggle, progress and hope, 1950 to the present HQ 76.8 .U5 G357 2007 Making History : the
I think the real question is-- do we care if book clubs are cool? No. No, we do not care because we're beyond doing what other people think is "cool" and are more interested in doing things that bring us joy and help us explore ideas with openness and curiosity. Plus sometimes there be dragons. The Durham Tech Library is gathering data for faculty and staff reading groups. Take our survey and let us know what types of books and reading groups you'd be interested in joining and if you'd be
Are you planning a trip to see some waterfalls? Want to find some wildflowers nearby those waterfalls? The library can help! We have several guidebooks to waterfall hikes in North Carolina and the surrounding areas. You read that right, these guidebooks are to WATERFALL hikes. Not boring hikes where you just look at trees, or mountains, or gorges. Waterfalls are where it's at.* Hiking Waterfalls North Carolina: A Guide to the State's Best Waterfall Hikes A great guide of all the waterfall hikes
Image from readingnow.wordpress.com The following books are available from the Main Campus Library: Conversations with Ray Bradbury, PS 3503 .R167 Z466 2004 Dandelion Wine, PS 3503 .R167 D26 1976 Fahrenheit 451, PS 3503 .R167 F3 1982 The Martian Chronicles, PS 3503 .R167 M3 1954 The Illustrated Man, PS 3503 .R167 I44 1967 Here is a link to a nice article from the NY Times about Bradbury's life and work: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/ray-bradbury-popularizer-of-science-fiction-dies-at
The Durham Tech Library is happy to announce that our new podcast, Out Loud in the Library, is live! Listen to my voice as you drive to work, fold laundry, play games on your phone, or sit staring creepily into the distance. You can find it on Spotify, Podbean, and Google Podcasts. Soon to be available through Apple Podcasts as well (slight delay because Apple). Each episode will feature library updates and an interview with a student, staff, or faculty member from Durham Tech. Our very first
You may have heard of Dewey the cat from the book Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron. This book chronicles Dewey's story of living in a public library in Spencer, Iowa. Other libraries around the world also have cats. To see great photos and read other stories take a look at these fun links: [caption id="attachment_500" align="alignleft" width="244" class=" "] Spencer Public Library's Dewey the Cat[/caption] http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/quick-guide-library-cats/
(In which one of your librarians highlights the different categories of the Read Great Things Challenge 2019. Want to know more about the Read Great Things 2019 Challenge? Check out our library blog post about it. All are welcome to participate!) I like memoirs. A lot. I know this isn't everyone's favorite genre, but on the other hand, some people really only like to read memoirs. (You do you, reader.) If you also like memoirs or just need to fill that " book by or about someone that you admire"
College graduates might be quite digital savvy, but many employers are finding that recent graduates lack "old-school" research skills. Here is an article about Project Information Literacy's (PIL's) latest study, "Learning Curve: How College Students Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace" that was recently published in The Seattle Times. Op-ed: Old-school job skills you won't find on Google by Alison J. Head Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a public benefit nonprofit
We now have two great online guides for finding movies in the library's collection. One guide is for browsing titles by movie genre such as Action, History, Sports, etc... and the other is an alphabetical listing of films in our collection. We hope you'll discover lots of films that you want to watch. Thanks to our library staff member, Lauren Havens, for all of her hard work creating these new resources. You can also access these guides under the LibGuides link on the library website.