110+ Languages Are At Your Fingertips: Transparent Language Database Now Available FREE Online

Want to listen to your favorite anime in Japanese? Want to read primary sources for your research in German? Just want to brush up that language you studied for years in school, but somehow can’t seem to remember at all? 

We are excited to announce that we now offer Transparent Language Online free to all students, staff, and faculty at Durham Tech.

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Exploring careers? Check out Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center landing screen: Explore Careers, Plan your Education, Prepare for your Career, Find a Career

This database offers job and industry profiles, job hunting and workplace skills, career exploration and industry resources all in many formats, from streaming video to chat. If you want, you can create a personal login and save content to your own folder.

Use the link from the Library’s Articles, Journals, and Databases box on the library homepage (F for Ferguson’s) and log in off-campus by using your Durham Tech username and password–the same one you would use for Sakai or Self-Service. Not affiliated with Durham Tech? Check with your NC public library for access information. 

LEARN more ABOUT FERGUSON’S CAREER GUIDANCE CENTER

Need a new read? NoveList Plus can help you find the perfect book

NoveList Plus: The secret to finding your next great read

NoveList Plus all about books and only books, all kinds of books for all ages, including fiction books, narrative non-fiction books, and audiobooks.  It works on the premise that if you know one book or author or series that you like, you can use NoveList Plus to enter criteria and then find books or with similar features. You can also browse lists created in the database to find your next read. 

Looking for a book to complete a Read Great Things 2020 category? Let NoveList help! Here’s how: 

LEARN MORE ABOUT USING NOVELIST

Need to study for the TEAS & NCLEX (or other professional exams)? Check out our test prep resources

Are you looking for some study resources for the TEAS, NCLEX, or other professional exams? Or even some GED, ACT, SAT, and GRE prep?

The Durham Tech Library has access to three test prep databases: BoardVitals, PrepSTEP, and TERC.

All Durham Tech students, faculty, and staff are able to access these databases on and off-campus. Log in using your Durham Tech username and password, the same as you’d use for Self-Service, WebAdvisor, or Sakai.

Not affiliated with Durham Tech? TERC is also available through your local NC public library through NC LIVE. 


For your TEAS and NCLEX online test preparation needs, let’s explore what’s available. 

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Make Your World Wider with Mango Languages

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?

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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.

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Feel the NEED TO READ? Try the Home Grown eBook Collection

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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What We’re Watching: The Forgotten Plague

Curious about previous infectious disease outbreaks as we live through this one? Are these times really unprecedented?

Check out the PBS American Experience documentary The Forgotten Plague: Tuberculosis in America,  available for free for all Durham Tech faculty, staff, and students and streaming through Films on Demand.

'The Forgotten Plague: Tuberculosis in America' PBS American Experience Documentary

This documentary is recommended by Durham Tech biology and microbiology instructor Dorothy Wood. 

READ MORE ABOUT WHY DR. WOOD RECOMMENDS THIS DOCUMENTARY