Durham Tech faculty do great things as teachers…and as authors of really excellent children’s books about the many positive male role models in young children’s lives.
Kashama Leo-Henry is an Early Childhood Instructor here at Durham Tech and has recently published Daddies and Uncles and More, Oh My!
Click through to read more about her motivation and inspiration.
Continue Reading →Celebrate Pride with these colorful reads from the Durham Tech Library collections.
There should be another word for cookbooks that are only recipes for baked desserts. Bakebooks? Dessertbooks? Bakertbooks? We can workshop it later.
Regardless of what they are called, the library has them! I used one to make a pie on Memorial Day and it did not disappoint. The recipe came from Pie Every Day: Recipes and Slices of Life by Pat Willard. Click through to the rest of the post to see how my pie turned out!
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.
Click read more to check out some awesome reads by and about Asian and Pacific Islander Americans from our in-person collection and from our Dogwood Digital Collection of ebooks and audiobooks.
Continue Reading →Dig deep while reading narrow by completing a microhistory for the Read Great Things 2021 Challenge.
The most important question: What the heck is a microhistory?
A microhistory is a narrowly-focused, in-depth examination of a certain subject or individual over time. Some microhistories focus on illuminating the life and impact of a lesser-known group, event, or individual. Others dig deep into a subject or object to trace its historical, social, and/or other (economic, cultural, psychological, medical, etc.) impacts. A microhistory isn’t necessarily a short book– it can dig deep on a narrow topic over many pages.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Courtney Bippley (who loves microhistories) for compiling book lists of lots of things we have available. Click through to see some of the books (ebooks included!) that you can get through Durham Tech and for some reading lists from around the internet of additional options.
Continue Reading →April is Financial Literacy Month!
What’s that? April is almost over?
Better late than never!
Sometimes the most useful pieces of financial literacy are how to negotiate initial salary or pay raises, how to get that public service loan forgiveness, how to reduce medical bills (ask for that bill to be itemized), and other things that involve more than teaching someone how to open a checking account. See below for resources Durham Tech and the library offer for helping you handle your money.
Continue Reading →Thanks to everyone who sent me your favorite poem!
This year’s poetry month bookmarks contain some nature poems, some poems about peeking at other people’s houses (consensually), an ode to James Baldwin, and several more.
Click through to download previous years’ and 2021’s Durham Tech Library Poetry Month bookmarks, which include Joy Harjo’s “Ah, Ah,” Danez Smith’s “little prayer,” Kay Ryan’s “Sharks’ Teeth,” Stanley Kunitz’s “Halley’s Comet,” Rita Dove’s “My Mother Enters the Work Force,” Karl Shapiro’s “The Living Rooms of My Neighbors,” an excerpt from Amanda Gorman’s “In This Place (An American Lyric),” Ellen Bass’s “The Thing Is,” Terrance Hayes’s “[Seven of the ten things I love in the face],” and David Whyte’s “Horses Moving on the Snow.”
The file is a pdf, so you can print your own (and color them in, if that’s your thing).
Continue Reading →How are you celebrating Earth Day today? Are you watching the Earthday.org live stream? Are you heading over to the Piedmont Wildlife Center for their Earth Day Fly-Thru? Going on a hike? Attending the virtual Piedmont Earth Day Fair? Getting ready to take pictures of trees and flowers in your neighborhood to participate in the City Nature Challenge? Watching nature documentaries?
How about reading? Check out these great new books we have in the Dr. Phail Wynn Collection. Any one (or all) would be a great Earth Day choice!
Continue Reading →Earth Day is April 22nd, but there is no need to wait until Thursday to start joining the action! You can join TODAY.
There are 3 events in the run up to Earth Day, and then there will be Earth Day Live on April 22nd. Click the link below to find information about each event and reading recommendations! All events are virtual and free.
read for the earthAre you planning a trip to see some waterfalls? Want to find some wildflowers nearby those waterfalls? The library can help!
We have several guidebooks to waterfall hikes in North Carolina and the surrounding areas. You read that right, these guidebooks are to WATERFALL hikes. Not boring hikes where you just look at trees, or mountains, or gorges. Waterfalls are where it’s at.*
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