There are a lot of reasons why people are cooking and baking more right now, including restaurant closures and the fact that many of us are at home more. Check out some of our digital cookbooks through the Home Grown eBook collection and how to access (and help) our own Durham Tech Food Pantry.
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Where Have All My Librarians Gone? Librarian contact info and library services while everyone is off-campus
The librarians are still here for you, though we’re working remotely and with our new [unpaid] coworkers. Note: These coworkers are not very good at accurate typing, so will not be manning the chat.
Well, what can we do (and what is a no-go for off-campus work conditions)?
Continue Reading →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 →NC LIVE’s HomeGrown Collection Adds 495 Titles
NC LIVE recently announced the addition of 495 titles to its HomeGrown e-books collection. The new titles come from five publishers, including The University of North Carolina Press.
Coffee, Coffee, Coffee
Good Morning, Durham Tech!
Surely, I’m not the only one dreaming about a second (and third, and fourth, and fifth…) cup of coffee this morning. Maybe you woke up with energy and pep, good for you! This post is for everyone else who is fantasizing about that smooth, bold, dark ambrosia and who would like to learn more about it while doing so.
Here are three books about coffee available through ebrary. Click on the covers below to read them online, download them to your device, or just stare at the covers for a while imagining you can smell those freshly roasted beans. I won’t judge.
What Every Child Needs to Know About Coffee by R. Bradley Snyder and Marc Engelsgjerd
Caffeine comprehension level: Only one cup of coffee needed to read and understand this book.
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World by Mark Pendergrast
Caffeine comprehension level: 2-3 cups of coffee needed to read and understand this book.
Coffee: Emerging Health Effects and Disease Prevention by Yi-Fang Chu (Ed.)
Caffeine comprehension level: 4+ cups of coffee to read and understand this book.
Don’t worry tea lovers! I haven’t forgotten you fundamentally flawed people who prefer tea over coffee in the morning. Here is a book to satisfy your early morning caffeine cravings.
Tea Classified: A Tealover’s Companion by Jane Pettigrew and Bruce Richardson
Caffeine comprehension level: As many cups of tea as it takes for you to understand that coffee is better this book.
New ebooks available from North Carolina publishers
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, and Southern Tailgating Cookbook by Taylor Mathis. The ebooks are available to all North Carolina citizens via the NC LIVE website.
All Home Grown ebooks have unlimited, simultaneous user access, meaning that classrooms, book clubs, or any other groups can access the same ebook at the same time. NC LIVE partnered with six local publishing houses to provide the ebooks in this newest addition to the collection, including Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Crossroad Press, John F. Blair Publishing, McFarland & Company, Press 53 and UNC Press.
Let the library staff know if you have any questions about this collection.
New Computer Books available
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.
