Hola! Bonjour! Guten Tag!
Ready to become more fluent in a new language? Want to pick up the language you studied in high school again, or do better in a language class you’re taking now?
Ta da! We have Mango Languages, a language-learning software with over 70 world language courses and over 17 ESL courses, available free to all Durham Tech students, staff, and faculty.
Continue Reading →Looking for something to read but don’t want to leave your increasingly cozy home both because fall weather is coming (periodically, sporadically) and because, well, pandemic?
Well, try out the Home Grown eBook Collection, available through the Durham Tech Articles, Journals, and Databases link on the library homepage (H for Home Grown).
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From the author who taught us that writing and life was best accomplished “bird by bird”, or one slow mindful step at a time, comes her message of finding hope in the midst of chaos. Published in 2018, readers today in pandemic spring will recognize themselves in the first sentence: “I am stockpiling antibiotics for the apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen.”
Title: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
Author: Anne Lamott
Genre: Self-help book, Memoir, Essays
Read Great Things 2020 Categories: A book of short stories or essays; A book suggested by a Durham Tech Librarian
This book was read by Susan Baker, Reference Librarian.
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This book was read by Susan Baker, a Reference Librarian at the Main Campus Library.
Title and Author: Meg & Jo by Virginia Kantra
Genre: Contemporary romance, domestic fiction
Read Great Things Challenge 2020 category: Recommended by a Durham Tech librarian
Description: Meg March Brooke as a stay at home mom may not stretch the imagination too far, but Jo March as a prep cook and food blogger in New York City sure does! Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women is delightfully re-imagined by North Carolina RITA award winning author Virginia Kantra as a contemporary tale of adult sisters from a close knit family, following their very different paths, brought together again by a family crisis.This book is told through the eyes of the older sisters, Meg and Jo; a sequel, Beth & Amy, is scheduled to follow in December 2020.
Continue Reading →Students– did you know that you know that you can get 10 free pages of computer printing in the library per day? You can, and there’s no catch– with your current ID in hand, just go to the computer lab in the main campus library. Our lab is down the stairs inside the library and immediately to your right.
Durham Tech offers 10 free pages of black and white printing for current students in both the ERC main campus library lab and in the Wynn Center computer lab. Both labs require current Durham Tech IDs.
It is quick and easy to get your ID or your updated ID sticker at Campus Security in Building 8. There is no cost to get an ID or sticker, except if you are replacing a lost ID (the replacement cost is $10).
Need to print more than 10 pages? Yes, sure, you can do that! The cost is 5 cents for each additional page over your first 10 pages. You can also print upstairs for 5 cents per page for every page.
How does it work? Easy! Just bring your current Durham Tech ID, which you’ll need to show at both the door of the library and again at the door of the lab. In the lab, log in to our computers using your Web Advisor username. Once you send your print jobs, the ERC computer lab monitor will release up to 10 pages for free and you will pick them up right there in the lab.
If you print more than 10 pages, the lab monitor will give you a bill, which you will pay at the front desk upstairs in the library. Then library staff will then release your print job and you will retrieve it in the lab.
Some questions we are frequently asked about lab printing:
Can I get my 10 free pages on the upstairs computers?
No. Free printing is available downstairs in the lab only.
Can I pick up my print jobs upstairs?
No. We can’t change the print job destination to upstairs.
Can I print double-sided in the computer lab?
No. The downstairs printers do not have that option.
Can I print in color from downstairs?
Yes, just select a color printer from the menu when you send your job. Cost is 25 cents per page.
Can I pay for additional pages or for color print jobs using a debit or credit card?
Sorry, we can accept only cash to pay for print jobs.
Can I print in the ERC lab without my current student ID?
No, you must have your current Durham Tech ID with you every time you enter the lab. The lab monitors cannot look you up or accept other forms of ID. If you are in the library without your ID using your one time library courtesy pass, you can still print at the computers upstairs for just 5 cents per page.
Do you have any questions? Let us know. We look forward to seeing you in the library!