Tune into yourself with books that will help you with your self-care goals through the Read Great Things 2021 Challenge.
Self-care can be about taking care of yourself in many ways: emotionally, spiritually, creatively, physically, or mentally.
Keep reading for some suggestions based on what your own self-care goals might look like, including some suggestions contributed by your Durham Tech community.
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Explore new frontiers with a book set in or about space
with the Read Great Things 2021 Challenge.
Keep reading for some suggestions, including some double-dippers.
Continue Reading →Start 2021 and the Read Great Things 2021 Challenge off right and mark your short book off the list.
Are you participating in the Read Great Things Challenge? Have you heard of it before? Are you interested in participating next year? Wondering why we started a reading challenge at Durham Tech?
Learn all these things and more on our last podcast episode of the year! I interview Meredith Lewis, OCC Librarian, and we talk about the reading challenge, why reading can be good for you, and what she is reading right now.
Click here to listenDespite the fact that sometimes it still feels like April and that yesterday was August 1, the big ol’ year that has been 2020 is almost over.
What does that mean? Well, it’s time to make your “what I read” list and check it twice to make sure you finished your Read Great Things 2020 Challenge categories and see how many books you read to see if you finished the Above Average Reading Challenge.
Prizes will be available for winners in December, and we’ll have a virtual celebration in January both to reveal the 2021 categories and share what our beginning-of-year reads are.
Need info about the reading challenges or how to claim your victory? Keep reading!
Continue Reading →![The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games novel, #0 in the series [a prequel]) by Suzanne Collins](https://i0.wp.com/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/6138U5s+6yL.jpg?resize=333%2C502&ssl=1)
Title: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Author: Suzanne Collins
Genre: prequel; science fiction; dystopia
Read Great Things 2020 Categories: A book that is part of a series; A bildungsroman; A controversial book; and A book suggested by a Durham Tech Librarian
This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian.
If you liked the original Hunger Games trilogy, you’ll probably enjoy or appreciate this. If you’re like me, you may need to re-read the other books, but I read this book and then re-read the series afterwards, pausing in the third book because everyone knows if you don’t keep reading, then the bad thing you know is going to happen totally won’t happen, right? (Spoiler: It still happened. Double spoiler: The series is about a society that pits its children against each other TO THE DEATH to control rebellion. Bad things happen in all. three. books.)
CLICK FOR MORE DETAILS2020 is both a US Census and election year.
Many of us are thinking about how we can make a meaningful impact in our community. Participating in both the Census and local and national elections can help us make those impacts.
Click through to learn a little more about the Census, voting (especially in NC), and a few books to check off your civic engagement category on the Read Great Things 2020 Challenge.
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!
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.
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