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Continue Reading →Author Archives: Durham Tech Library
Need Textbook or Study Guide Resources? Let us help.
Have you been using the library’s textbook reserves? Do you need some additional study resources for one of your classes (whether you’re the teacher or the student)?
Check out these [temporarily] free textbook and study resources from various publishers and one from the Internet Archive.
Continue Reading →New Library Staff: The Work-from-Home Edition
Lots of changes happening, including new [unpaid] staff members helping your current library staff as we work from home.
Continue Reading →Pristine Pages for your Perusal at the OCC (aka NEW BOOKS!)
Take a look at our new books!
Continue Reading →In Memoriam: Katherine Johnson, 1918-2020
Dr. Katherine Johnson, part of the human computer team at NASA and responsible for hand calculating NASA’s path to space, has died at 101. She graduated from West Virginia State College with degrees in math and French and briefly worked as a teacher before working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (which would later become NASA) at Langley Research Center. In 2015, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
To read about her influence at NASA and the team of black female mathematicians that helped the United States launch successfully into space, we’ve got Hidden Figures in three formats: book, DVD, and children’s book.
Available at the Main Campus (QA 27.5 .L44) 
Available at the Main Campus (QA 28 .S538 2018, Children’s Resources) 
Available at the Main and Orange County Campuses (PN 1997.2 .H53 2017 DVD)
Related reading also featuring Katherine Johnson:
Available at the Main Campus (Q 141 .I33 2016) 
Available at the Main Campus (QA 27.5 .E39 2017)
Spring Library News (You Can Use)
The spring Durham Tech Library newsletter is now available. Features include new staff, OER, Summon tips and tricks, current reading challenges, upcoming Crafternoons, TLC news, and more!
Durham Tech Reads: What’s Your Favorite Book?
Are you participating in the Durham Tech Library’s Read Great Things 2020 Challenge? Desperately want to complete your “Someone else’s favorite book” category but don’t know where to start? Good news! We can help.
Continue Reading →The Above Average Reading Challenge: Read 20 in 20
Did you know that Americans read an average of 12 books per year?* Want to overachieve or just set a goal for yourself to be above average in 2020?
Good news! The Durham Tech Library is here to support your reading goals with the Above Average Reading Challenge: 20 Books in 2020.
Continue Reading →Reading All the Great Things in 2020: Challenge Yourself
A new year, a new list of categories for the Durham Tech Read Great Things Challenge!
Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff– Please do not bring your bag of snakes to the library. Thank you.
It (probably?) should go without saying that snakes and other pets are not allowed in the Durham Tech Library, but just in case you were wondering, based on a pretty popular news article going around lately, service animals must be approved as per college policy. Snakes are not approved service animals.
If you want to know more about snakes and other animals, check out books in call letter S (for some specific domestic animals) and QL (for animals galore!), including some of the awesome picks below:
Available at the Main Campus Library (QL 85 .H47 2010) 
Available at the Main Campus Library (QL 45.2 .M374 2006) 
Available at the Main Campus Library (QL 666 .O6 G69 1997)