Want to brush up on your HTML skills, create an app, program with JAVA or SAS, repair a PC, or learn PHP 7? Check out some of our new computer books selected by Tom Murphy, Assistant Dean, Information Technologies Programs.
Also explore, ebrary’s Computer and IT books e-book collection online. There are more than 3,000 titles! Click on the Computers & IT collection to browse books or search for topics or titles individually.
Dr. Phail Wynn, Jr. at the college’s 50th anniversary celebration.
Dr. Phail Wynn Jr, was president of Durham Technical Community College from 1980-2007. When Dr. Wynn made a generous donation to the library in 2007, the library created a special collection in his name. Dr. Wynn requested the collection pertain to socially responsible topics such as ecology and the environment, cultural awareness, global citizenship, teaching tolerance, appreciating diversity, fighting poverty, and promoting world peace.
The library is very proud of this collection and we add new materials each year. Students, faculty, and staff use and appreciate the resources in this collection. Books can be borrowed for three weeks with one renewal. The collection is located on the upper level of the library. Here are some of the recent additions to the collection:
The Library is excited to host a student art exhibition featuring art works from Durham Tech’s Drawing, Painting, 2-D and 3-D Design classes. The official opening and reception for students and their families is Saturday, April 16 from 11:00 – 1:00. Works will remain on display until May 6th. We are so proud of our Durham Tech art students! To view the exhibition poster, visit: Student Art Exhibition April 2016
Drawing by Kevin Garcia
Planar Portrait by Mary Pham
March is Women’s History Month and a great time to celebrate important women in history. Explore the films below and visit Films on Demand for more films and clips. Films on Demand provides more than 20,000 high quality streaming videos and includes award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches, and newsreels. Films or shorter film segments can be easily embedded into Sakai course sites.
Happy Women’s History Month!
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist.
Marie Curie was a Nobel Prize winning physicist and chemist who explored radioactivity.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were women’s rights and suffrage activists.
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a abolitionist and led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.
Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American congresswoman in 1968 and fought for education and social justice reform.
Marley Dias, age 11, is an inspiration! When she got frustrated by the lack of diversity in her school’s required reading, she did something about it. One evening at dinner, she spoke to her mom about her frustration. “I told her I was sick of reading about white boys and dogs,” Dias said, pointing specifically to “Where the Red Fern Grows” and the “Shiloh” series. Dias’ activist mother helped her realize that she could do something about it. Marley told her mother that she was “going to start a book drive, and a specific book drive, where black girls are the main characters in the book and not the background characters or minor characters.”
Photo of Marley Dias, from Janice Dias for The Philly Voice
Quotes and information from: Philly Voice interview.
To hear Marley talk about her campaign, listen to her wonderful interview on National Public Radio.
For further information or to contribute to her campaign, visit her website: http://welovebam.com/1000-black-girl-books/
Here are some recommended children’s and young adult books to celebrate Black History Month. Share these with a child or teen in your life. We also have a display on the lower level of the library of African American autobiographies and memoirs.
The next Library Book Club selection is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates which appeared on many best books lists of 2015. We will meet on Thurs. Feb. 4th at 1:00 pm in the ERC Schwartz room.
Here’s a book description from the Goodreads website:
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son,
Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Please join us for a discussion of this thought-provoking book.
You can also listen to this interview with the author on National Public Radio.
Are you stressed by the end-of-semester crunch or the upcoming holidays? Spend time outdoors! It’s amazing what nature, walks or hikes, and fresh air can do for you! We have many beautiful parks and trails in the triangle to enjoy as well as throughout the state.
Visit the NCpedia page, Exploring North Carolina: North Carolina State Parks, Trails, Lakes, Rivers & Natural Areas, which includes links to articles and contemporary and historic images of the parks from the NC Division of Parks and Recreation, the State Archives of North Carolina, the North Carolina Museum of History. You’ll also find links to maps and web pages for the individual parks, trails, and recreation areas.
NCpedia is an online encyclopedia about North Carolina and highlights North Carolina’s unique resources, people, and culture. It is coordinated and managed by the Government & Heritage Library at the State Library of North Carolina, a part of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
There are lots of treasures to be discovered in Durham Tech’s Digital Archives! The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We have partnered with the Digital Heritage Center to digitize and publish Durham Tech’s historic materials online.
Click here to view more than 100 archived documents including yearbooks, newsletters, annual reports, and college catalogs from Durham Technical Community College.
Did you know that the college had a basketball team in 1967?
Durham Tech Basketball Team 1967 photo from The Widget yearbook
Did you know that the Northern Durham Center opened in 1994?
Update Newsletter, Winter 1994
Read the very first edition of the Final Draft Literary Journal from 1990!
The Final Draft Literary Journal Fall 1990
Read articles by Dr. Peter Wooldridge and Dr. Christine Kelly-Kleese in the very first issue of The Learning Matters journal from 2002.
Learning Matters Journal Spring 2002
Are you in the mood to read something scary or supernatural for Halloween season? Check out some of these fun and spooky tales from the library!
