We’ve got lots of new books at the Orange County Campus Library for the new semester!
New Books at OCC for 2023, Part 1: Pictures, Personal, and Professional
Author Archives: Meredith Lewis
Reading Greatly in 2023: The Durham Tech Library Reading Challenge
A little unfinished business first–
Need to fill out your 2022 challenge form? Here it is! Since we’re a little late releasing the new list this year (and everyone deserves a little grace sometimes when we’re able), you’ve got until Friday, January 13, 2023 to complete and submit the 2022 Reading Challenge form.
If you’ve already filled it out, no need to do it a second time.
Want to revisit old challenges? Check out our new Read Great Things Challenge LibGuide website for the ghosts of reading challenges past.
What is the Read Great Things Challenge?
The Read Great Things Challenge is a personal reading challenge sponsored by the Durham Tech Library that encourages folks to diversify and/or increase their reading goals by completing books throughout 2023 that fit into at least 10 of the following 12 categories:
Continue Reading →Body Parts: Microhistories of the Physical Self
Unlike many of our health science folks, I was academically an English major (and then an education major and then a library science major), so my formal education surrounding anatomy and physiology is lacking. Maybe that’s why I love books about the human body so much, especially microhistories that dig deep into particular anatomical aspects.
Or maybe I remember The Magic School Bus and then the Futurama tribute episode fondly, both of which were inspired by the 1966 science fiction classic film The Fantastic Voyage.
Maybe this is your genre, too? If so, check out some of our collection of books about body parts and systems and learn more about your insides and outside, too!
Continue Reading →Space! At the Library!
Have you seen the new images of space from the James Webb Telescope?
We have and we’re excited!
In addition to birds, octopuses, dinosaurs, plants, chess, cats, football, real estate, kelp, swimming, astrology, funny internet graphics, The Beatles, and art (to name a few of our department’s enthusiastic specific interests), we also like space!
Keep reading for some resources to learn more about space and even a little fiction to expand your imagination.
Get Your Hamilton Fix
You say–
The price of a ticket to NYC is not a price that you’re willing to pay.
Good news!
The Library’s here to cure your post-Hamilton blues.
Don’t be sad;
Remember that books and streaming theater can be digitally had!
Now you’re glad!
Remember that even though it’s summer, we’re here for you.
Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da
Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya-da
Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da
Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya*
With Hamilton‘s recent run at DPAC, if you scored tickets, you may be left wanting more.
While we don’t have access to the streaming musical itself (Disney+ has a monopoly on that), we do have some books and movies that you can immerse yourself in to keep the historical magic alive.
Keep reading!
Continue Reading →New B.O.O.K.S. at O.C.C.
Just in time for summer session, the Orange County Campus Library has some exciting new fiction and nonfiction in its collection.
Looking to come to the OCC to visit? Our library hours have changed for the summer!
Librarian services will be available Monday and Tuesday from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
Main Campus is open Monday through Thursday for all your in-person Durham Tech Library needs. Virtual services are available Monday through Friday.
Keep reading for the new books!
Continue Reading →2022 Durham Tech Library Poetry Month Bookmarks!
This year’s poetry month bookmarks have “Characteristics of Life” by Camille T. Dungy, “Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Laméris, “Rain” by Raymond Carver, “for grandma” by NC Poet Laureate Jackie Shelton Green, and “I Pick Up My Footprints” by Vasyl Holoborodko, translated from Ukrainian by Svetlana Lavochkina, illustrated by our own Reference Librarian Sasha Deyneka, adapted from the works of Maria Prymachenko.
The file is a pdf, so you can print your own (and color them in, if that’s your thing). Print 2-sided, short edge. Cardstock is recommended.
Bookmarks and bookmark sheets will be available for pick up at the Main Campus Library by Thursday (we’re having some technical difficulties with the copier) and are currently available at the Orange County Campus Library.
Click through to download Durham Tech Library Poetry Month bookmarks from 2021, 2019, and 2017, which include poems from Amanda Gorman, Terrance Hayes, Mary Oliver, Kay Ryan, Danez Smith, Rita Dove, Ellen Bass, and many more!
Continue Reading →Yellow Books for the Annual Pollening
It’s that time of year again. You know what I mean.
Since we can’t avoid it (unless we never leave the house) or control it, we may as well accept it and cope as best we can with itchy eyes, stuffy noses, and a dream of the few perfect days before the humidity settles in our bones.
Here are some blonde books to read outside (after taking your allergy meds) to soak up the spring weather with canary covers to hide the pollen.
Continue Reading →What We’re Reading: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
(PS 3626 .E95 S86 2014)
A.J. Fikry owns a bookstore, which he and his late wife Nic started on a vacationers’ island in New England. The story begins with A.J. the widower wallowing in his grief each night with frozen dinners and red wine. As he works through his grief and begins to let people into his life, he finds meaning.
Title: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Genre: contemporary fiction
Read Great Things 2022 Categories: A happy or hopeful book; A book about community; Blast from the past: A book about family (2021), An epistolary book or a book that contains epistolary parts (2019), A book being made into a movie this year (2018)
Why did you choose to read this book?
My book club chose this as an upbeat book. We had been reading a lot of difficult or serious books–which I haven’t finished or quit reading–so this was a welcome change. This one was very light and breezy, without being simplistic.
It covers a lot of ground: love, loss and infidelity; books and reading; comedy, tragedy and hope.
Zero Textbook Cost Pathways for Career and Technical Education: Meeting Today, 5 PM
To celebrate Open Education Week 2022, San Mateo County (Calif.) Community College District and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) are hosting a Zoom-based conversation about Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) opportunities for Career and Technical Education.
You can join the Zoom meeting here: https://smccd.zoom.us/j/84255431012.
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