As we look ahead to 2026, we, in Instructional Technologies, are getting ready to roll out some great new features in Canvas that will make your teaching life easier and give you some new ways to approach your classroom. If you've ever felt frustrated with rubric limitations, wished that Turnitin could do just a little more, or wanted to get a better overall sense of conversations on discussion forums quickly get ready for some exciting news! Enhanced Rubrics: The Upgrade We've Been Waiting For
[caption id="attachment_2538" align="aligncenter" width="880"] Image from: http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek[/caption] Banned Books Week is an annual event which celebrates the freedom to read. Librarians, booksellers, publishers, and teachers across the country unite during Banned Books Week to oppose censorship and ensure free access to information and books. Visit our library's display window to see some of the frequently challenged books from schools and libraries over the last few
Watch the film above, from Ken Burns’s powerful documentary on the women’s suffrage movement, which presents the early years of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and their alliance in the struggle for women’s rights. Visit Films on Demand or click the titles below for more films and clips to celebrate Women's History Month. Films or shorter film segments can be easily embedded into Sakai course sites. Visit our display window outside of the library and our display rack downstairs for
Check out these new books we have for 2015 for up to three weeks at a time. If one of these doesn't catch your eye, find more on our New Books Bookshelf next to the circulation desk at the Main Campus Library. [gallery link="none" columns="5" ids="1015,1016,1017,1018,1020,1021,1022,1023,1024,1025" orderby="rand"]
We have new DVDs in the Main Campus library. These are just some of the great titles available for check out! Click on the pictures to read a description of the movie and watch the trailer. [gallery type="circle" ids="1215,1214,1213,1212,1211,1210" orderby="rand"] Over at the Northern Durham Campus we have more new DVDs. Can't make it over there but want to watch one of these anyway? Just ask! We can have it for you in the Main Campus library in a few days. [gallery type="circle" ids="1217,1218
[gallery type="circle" ids="1322,1323,1324,1325,1326,1327" orderby="rand"] These are some of the new movies we have for you. Come by and check them out!
Welcome back! In honor of starting the new semester with success in mind, this week, we'll be posting some tips for success both for faculty, staff, and students! Look for upcoming tips on academic success, digital tools to organize your academic and personal life, and other ways to start the semester out on a positive note! Good luck! And some library business: Please note that starting on Monday, August 24 all students will need an updated or current student ID in order to enter the library
Welcome back from Summer vacation. While you were gone the library has added a lot of DVDs to our circulating collection. All of them are available for check out a week at a time. The slideshow below is only a taste of what is available. Take a look at our DVD LibGuides (organized alphabetically and by genre) to see everything! [gallery type="slideshow" ids="1515,1516,1517,1518,1519,1520,1521,1522,1523,1524" orderby="rand"]
Shout out (again) to the Durham Tech Marketing Department!
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.