Want to show a movie in your class? Wondering about all the memes you use in your PowerPoint slides? Have doubts about the famous essay you uploaded to Sakai?
We can help!
We’ve included links to sites where you can find images and resources that are either without copyright restrictions, or under a creative commons license. Use this guide to determine whether your use of a work is fair, or covered under the TEACH Act.
Here are some brand new books that you can check out from the library this week or next week. Our new book shelf is stocked with many new fiction and nonfiction titles for you to borrow. Please note that the library will be closed Aug. 3 – Aug. 9th. We’ll open again on Aug. 10th. Happy summer reading!
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an online resource covering today’s important social issues such as computer hacking, immigration, same-sex marriage, and voting rights. The differing viewpoints present each side of an issue and help students develop critical thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Content includes viewpoint articles, newspaper, magazine and academic journal articles, videos, audio, recommended websites, graphics, and statistics. It’s an excellent place to begin research on current topics.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context can be found on the Library’s Databases and Electronic Resources page. Browse topics and explore this exciting new library resource today!
NC LIVE recently added two new online science resources: McGraw-Hill’s AccessScience and Gale’s Science in Context. Continue Reading →
Films On Demand is a streaming video platform that features high quality educational video content. The collection includes more than 20,000 films and is constantly growing! The collections include award winning documentaries, instructional and vocational training videos, interviews, archival primary source materials, historical speeches, newsreels, and videos aligned with college curriculum. Subjects include automotive, business, economics, health, medicine, humanities, social sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, and vocational trades. Also included are travel and fitness programming, how-to videos, and popular music and dance performances.
Some of the benefits and key features of the platform include:
Explore Films on Demand today! Create a free account to get started. Let the library staff know if you have any questions. The helpful user’s guide will orient you to this new resource.
Check out these new books we have for 2015 for up to three weeks at a time. If one of these doesn’t catch your eye, find more on our New Books Bookshelf next to the circulation desk at the Main Campus Library.
Sample ebooks from the collection
NC LIVE, North Carolina’s statewide library consortium, is experimenting with a new eBook project that gives North Carolina library patrons unlimited access to more than 1,200 eBook titles from North Carolina-based publishers. This collection offers a wide range of content, including novels by popular North Carolina authors, poetry, short stories, and non-fiction. The eBooks are available for public use on the BiblioBoard platform from
http://nclive.org/ebooks featuring titles like Guests on Earth by Lee Smith and North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery by Beth Tartan, among many others.
NC LIVE’s Homegrown ebook collection interface
NC LIVE partnered with eight local publishing houses to purchase the eBooks, including Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (an imprint of Workman Books), Crossroad Press, Gryphon House, Ingalls Publishing Group, John F. Blair Publishing, McFarland, Press 53, and UNC Press. Unlike traditional library eBooks, this collection features always available, unlimited simultaneous user access during the life of the pilot, meaning patrons will not have to place a hold or wait for an eBook to become available. Additionally, the BiblioBoard platform allows users to view the eBooks in a web browser or download them to their tablet devices via the BiblioBoard Library app.
Explore the homegrown ebook collection today!
If you have been studying at Durham Tech for a couple semesters, you are probably familiar with some of the article databases and other research tools that are available through NC LIVE, such as Academic Search Complete and Newspaper Source Plus. This semester–and continuing through 2017–NC LIVE is subscribing to some new resources you’ll want to use!
ProQuest Central provides access to “thousands of periodical titles and millions of full-text articles.” ProQuest Newsstand replaces Newspaper Source Plus and “offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 1300 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world.”
Other changes include adding Pronunciator, a language learning service; Gale Literature Resource Center for literature research; and streaming videos from Films on Demand! A complete list of the subscription changes is available on the NC LIVE website.
Remember that you can find links to the electronic resources provided by your library from the library’s website. All of the ProQuest databases are already available to everyone affiliated with Durham Tech, so you can start using them if you haven’t already checked them out. Other new databases will become available in early 2015. We also will continue to provide access to the EBSCOhost databases through December, though our subscription expires then and you won’t have access to them after that.
If you need more information about these changes, please contact the Durham Tech Library.
Credo Reference
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and assignments. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 200 videos.
This is an excellent resource for finding background information from reference sources. The topic pages have in-depth articles that give a nice overview and explanation of thousands of topics.
Click here to explore Credo or use the link on our Library Databases page.
We purchase new novels, graphic novels, books of poetry, and short story collections a few times per year using funds from our Durham Tech Foundation Campus Fund Drive account. We think that pleasure reading is important and fun! We also appreciate hearing your requests. If you have a book to recommend to the library for our collection, please let us know in the comments below or send us an email (library@durhamtech.edu).
Check out our current display downstairs for the month of September for our new arrivals.
You can also search for titles in the online catalog if you have a favorite author or series that you enjoy reading.
Here are some of the new titles:
Among Others by Jo Walton
Astray by Emma Donoghue
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon
Have You Seen Marie? by Sandra Cisneros
The Humanity Project by Jean Thompson
Kings and Queens of Roam by Daniel Wallace
Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volumes 1 & 2 by Ursula Le Guin
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories by Ann VanderMeer
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Curl up with a new book and enjoy!