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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.
Exploring careers? Check out Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
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 CENTERNeed a new read? NoveList Plus can help you find the perfect book
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 NOVELISTNeed 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.
Continue Reading →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?
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.
Continue Reading →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?
Available through Home Grown eBooks 
Available through Home Grown eBooks 
Available through Home Grown eBooks
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).
Continue Reading →Durham Tech Library Take-Out: Get Your Books To Go
While our downstairs stacks may be closed, the Durham Tech Library is open to get your books to you.
Whether fiction or nonfiction, we’ve got options!
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Getting Support During the Fall Semester
The semester has started! That means assignments, deadlines, work, school, family, friends, pandemic, economy, politics, and more, are all stressors as we move into pumpkin spice season fall. Find resources below to help manage that stress and take care of your mental health.
Minority Mental Health Month
**This post is in collaboration with Durham Tech Counseling Services.**
July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and while the month is almost over, many of these resources are available all year round both through Durham Tech and through outside agencies.
Are you a Durham Tech student looking for a safe space to discuss anxiety and other issues due to Covid-19? Have your heard about Let’s Cope?
The Let’s Cope group, hosted by LaKe’a Teel and Letoria Brown, is a support group for Durham Tech students that meets virtually over Microsoft Teams twice a week. They discuss specific topics, coping strategies, and share their experiences. This year has been tough (an understatement), and it looks like things will stay tough into the fall semester.
If you’re a student, please consider joining the group if and when you need to. If you are faculty or staff, direct students to the group whenever possible. We all need a support system to deal with things both big and small, from a global pandemic to help concentrating on schoolwork.
Information on previously covered topics can be found on the Counseling Services page, and many more topics are scheduled for the upcoming semester.
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