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“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” On Monday, August 5, 2019, author, editor, and teacher Toni Morrison passed away. Morrison was nearly 40 when her first book, The Bluest Eye, was published. She went on to become the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for her "novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, giv[ing] life to an essential aspect of American reality." She earned the
With all the recent less-than-heartening news about college athletes and academics, it's nice to see something positive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYGCu26xVU Read the article here about University of Georgia's Malcolm Mitchell and the book club he joined to help him improve his reading. Our favorite part? Wait, but what about the touchdowns? "That came natural," Mitchell said. "That's a gift. I had to work to read." While we don't have a book club, we do have lots of great books for you to
Are you participating in the library's Read Great Things Challenge 2019? Do you need suggestions for books about immigration? Here are some recent books, both nonfiction and fiction, that explore immigration and the immigrant and refugee experience. These are now available in the library collection.
EBSCOhost has offered Durham Tech temporary access to its eBook Academic Collection to help students and instructors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, Durham Tech has set up a trial subscription with EBSCOhost for its eBook Community College Collection. Between the two collections, that's over 200,000 e-books, 88,000 of which are unique among Durham Tech's current e-books. It's hard to imagine tens of thousands of books. Your Durham Tech library already has about 40,000 books and DVDs
On November 8, North Carolinians will cast their ballots for the 2022 midterm elections. Non-presidential elections often see fewer than half of the total eligible voters cast their ballot during midterm elections, according to North Carolina's State Board of Elections. If you are reading this and will be at least age 18 by election day, you can make an impact by being an informed and engaged citizen and casting your ballot in November, or during the early voting period (October 20 - November 5)
Did you know that Durham Tech library staff have created nearly 50 online research guides to help you with your assignments? Click the "LibGuides" link on the library home page to see them! LibGuides is a service provided by Springshare, which allows libraries to create multifaceted guides to research, tailored to the library's resources and to specific subjects. Many of Durham Tech's LibGuides are designed around specific courses ( ENG 231 / ENG 232) or subjects taught at Durham Tech ( Dental
Like YA and/or classic literature? Like audiobooks? Like free things? Every summer, AudioFile's Sync summer "reading" program provides free weekly downloads of two audiobooks: one contemporary YA book and one work of classic literature that relates to the same theme. The new season of free downloads starts on Thursday, May 7 with Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl and Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. Check out the entire list of offerings (14 weeks worth!) on their website! http:/
Need to find journal articles or ebooks in the arts? What about literature or the sciences? Look no further than JSTOR! JSTOR is a digital library including thousands of academic journals, books, and primary source documents in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and math. You can search using keywords in their search box, like this search on “Alice Walker”… or you can browse content by subject area, by title, or by publisher. JSTOR contains more than 85,000 ebooks from academic publishers
For those who enjoy reading, summer can be a great time to re-read old favorites, discover new authors, or just make a dent in a to-read list. Click through the slideshow to see Durham Tech Faculty & Staff's incredibly diverse favorite reads of summer 2016. [gallery type="slideshow" link="none" ids="2356,2317,1569,1070,2362,2377,2378,2379,2380,2381,2382,2383,2384,2385,2386,2387,2388,2389,2390,2391,2392,2393,2394,2395,2396,2397,2398,2399,2400,2403,2404,2405,2406,2407,2408,2411,2412,2413,2414,2415
NC LIVE, North Carolina’s statewide public and academic library consortium, has added 980 new ebooks to Home Grown, a collection of fiction and nonfiction works from North Carolina-based publishers. The new additions were purchased with the generous donations of North Carolina libraries and feature a wide variety of titles, including novels by popular North Carolina authors, poetry, young adult, short stories and nonfiction. Readers may enjoy new titles such as And West is West by Ron Childress