Read to honor Dr. King’s legacy on MLK Holiday

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Courtney Bippley

Durham Tech Health and Wellness Instructor, Wilma Herndon, invites you to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day by participating in the Day of Reading event. Ms. Herndon is the “Reading is Power Chair” of the local chapter, Beta Zeta. Sign up on Friday, Jan 17th after Durham Tech’s MLK Luncheon or by email at herndonw@durhamtech.edu. There is also a form at Durham Tech’s Main Campus Library desk.

Please visit the library’s display of MLK books on the lower level of the library for potential books and videos to watch. You can also pick up a special MLK bookmark at any of the campus libraries.

Not sure what to read? See some suggestions below which are available in our library.

New Books for a New Year

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Courtney Bippley

Get a jump start on the Durham Tech Library 2020 Reading Challenge with one of these new books!

New Books for Break

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Courtney Bippley

There is still time to check out one (or two or three or four!) of these new books to read over Thanksgiving Break. Books are a great conversation started at dinner and a great way to get some peace amidst the hectic Thanksgiving hubbub.

We have SO MANY great new books that I can’t include all of them. Some of the books not pictured are written by or about such notable people as Jackie Chan, Stan Lee, Harvey Milk, Malcolm Gladwell, Lois Lowry, Dapper Dan, and Edward Snowden. So come grab a book!

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Library Staff Picks!

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Courtney Bippley

The end of 2019 is approaching so now is the time to look at what we’ve read and watched this year and determine the best of the best. We’ve chosen some of our favorite books and movies from our collection that we read or watched this year to highlight in a display inside the library.

I’d like to give a shout out to one of my personal favorites from this year:

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By Caroline Criado Perez

This book made me angry on every page and I’m so glad that I read it. Apparently, everything in the world is gendered. Including snow plow routes and heart surgery recovery rates. I learned so many new things and will be gifting it to at least two people this holiday season. If you read it we can be angry together! Yay! It also counts for the social science category in the Durham Tech Library Read Great Things Challenge 2019. It’s not too late to finish!

November New Books!

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Courtney Bippley

It’s officially November! We’ve set our clocks back and retrieved our winter clothes from storage. Time to curl up with a book, a blanket, and your pet of choice.

It’s also eating season! Come by the library to see (and check out) all our beautiful cookbooks!

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New books about Immigration

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Julie Humphrey

Are you participating in the library’s Read Great Things Challenge 2019? Do you need suggestions for books about immigration?

Here are some recent books, both nonfiction and fiction, that explore immigration and the immigrant and refugee experience. These are now available in the library collection.

New Books for October

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Courtney Bippley

It’s finally starting to feel like Fall!

Time to curl up with a good book, wear some fuzzy socks, and sip hot tea.

Dog may be substituted by a cat or a pumpkin.

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From Print on the Small [Mostly Streaming] Screen: Book to TV Adaptations

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Meredith Lewis

Do you like your book adaptations to go beyond the two hour constraint of a movie screen? If so, have you checked out the literary companions to these recent television adaptations?

Available on AMC and through ILL
Available on HBO and at the Main and Orange County Campus libraries
Available on HBO and at the Main and Orange County Campus Libraries
Available on Hulu and at the Main Campus library
Available on HBO and at the Orange County Campus library
Available on Amazon Prime Video and at the Main Campus library
Available on AMC and at the Main Campus library
Available streaming through Netflix, on DVD at the Orange County Campus library, and in print at the Main Campus library
Available on Netflix and at the Main and Orange County Campus libraries
Available on Sundance TV and at the Main and Orange County Campus libraries
Available on Starz and at the Main Campus library
Available on Netflix and at the Orange County Campus Library

New Books for a New Semester

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Courtney Bippley

It’s a new semester here at Durham Tech which means the Library has a huge haul of brand new books to check out. This is going to be a long list since I had a hard time choosing which ones to highlight. Believe me when I say we have so many more awesome books on the New Books shelf right now!

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N.E.W. at the O.C.C.

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Meredith Lewis

Don’t forget about our branch campus library offerings, including these freshly added books! Ask a librarian for help (or use the catalog to put a hold on a copy of a book) if you’d like to pick up the book at a different campus library.