Lots of students know that we have the big textbooks to help support your classroom learning, but did you know that we have a wide variety of nonfiction selections to supplement your scientific knowledge outside a textbook?
Click on an image for more details (be sure to scroll down for a description!) and ask a librarian if you’d like to take one of the titles home with you to explore further.
The college experience isn’t just about taking classes. It can be about networking with other students, exploring different careers or industries, finding internships, and getting involved with organizations on campus and in the wider community.
If you are interested in developing your coding skills and networking with others, Girl Develop It is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing, “affordable and accessible programs to women who want to learn web and software development through mentorship and hands-on instruction.” They have a local chapter in the Raleigh-Durham area, which hosts free classes, including an upcoming class on WordPress, and coding events, which can be casual chances to meet with their group and do a bit of coding over coffee. See their Meetup page for more information.
If you’re interested in learning computer coding, we have library resources to help, including the items below. If you need help finding other items, please let us know. We have more than just what is noted here.
If you’re interested in social networking, these books may help:
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 was awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai for their advocacy for children’s rights.
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai were picked as winners for their struggle against the oppression of children and their right to education. Photograph: Reuters (Source Guardian.com)
Here is background information about Mr. Satyarthi and Miss Yousafzai from the New York Times, “In India, Mr. Satyarthi, a former engineer, has long been associated with the struggle to free bonded laborers, some born into their condition and others lured into servitude. For decades, he has sought to rid India of child slavery and has liberated more than 75,000 bonded and child laborers in the country. Mr. Satyarthi began working for children’s rights in 1980 as the general secretary of the Bonded Labor Liberation Front, an organization dedicated to freeing bonded laborers forced to work to pay off debts, real or imagined. He also founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Children Mission, an organization dedicated to ending bonded labor and saving children from trafficking. ” (http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/nobel-peace-prize-awarded-to-defenders-of-childrens-rights/)
“Ms. Yousafzai began campaigning for girls’ education at the age of 11, three years before she was shot by the Taliban. She was so young that some observers questioned how well equipped a child of that age could be to put her own safety on the line and commit to a life of activism. The prize she received on Friday validates what she has taken on, but also underscores the disproportionate expectations that trail her: Can she truly influence the culture of her home country of Pakistan, which she cannot even visit because of threats to her safety, and where many revile her as a tool of the West? Ms. Yousafzai may be an Anne Frank-like figure who defied terror, showed extraordinary courage and inspires hope, but how much can one teenager accomplish?” (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/world/asia/malala-yousafzai-youngest-nobel-peace-prize-winner-adds-to-her-achievements-and-expectations.html)
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You’ve certainly been to the library in the ERC to check out some of our 40,000-plus books, but be sure to check out the e-book offerings from NC LIVE as well!
On the Durham Tech Library home page, click on E-books and Digital Audio Books. From there, follow the link to NC LIVE e-books. In the search box on that page, you can type your search term(s) to get started. You can also click on one of the individual collections, such as
You can also visit NC LIVE’s Home Grown eBook Collection, which “offers a wide range of content, including novels by popular North Carolina authors, poetry, short stories, and non-fiction,” according to the August 2014 press release. This collection is on the BiblioBoard platform and is compatible with Safari and Chrome browsers.
Credo Reference is an online database of more than 3 million entries in over 600 reference books. It is helpful when you’re developing a topic for an assignment, because it provides brief topic overviews and links to related entries in Credo Reference resources. You can also follow links from Credo Reference into other resources provided by the Durham Tech Library, including the library catalog and online databases.
Additionally, you can browse reference books by subject area, use the “image search” option to find pictures related to a topic and explore the “mind map” search strategy to brainstorm and discover related terms to your search term.
When you have become comfortable with the basic searches, the “advanced search” feature allows you to be more exact in your search strategies. If you are feeling very confident and a little adventurous, also check out the “power search” tips from the “advanced search” page.
Check it out!
Please join members of the library staff and the college for Durham Tech’s Stop Hunger Now Meal Packaging Event on Mon. Jan. 20th from 9:00 – 6:30 at the Wynn Bldg room 1103. Click here for more information and to sign up for a volunteer shift. This important service project is a great way to start off the year!
The library has lots of resources on Dr. King’s life and work, as well as materials on poverty, social justice, activism, and service.
The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A social justice hall of fame
E 747 .D74 2012
Citizen King (DVD) E 185.97 .K5 C58 2004
Citizen You: Doing your part to change the world HN 18.3 .T57 2010 (upstairs, Dr. Phail Wynn Jr. collection)
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice REF HM 671 .E53 2007
Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins: How absolutely anyone can pitch in, help out, give back, and make the world a better place
HN 49 .V64 L48 2010 (upstairs, Dr. Phail Wynn Jr. collection)
Gettin’ My Word Out: Voices of urban youth activists HN 19 .A76 2007 (upstairs, Dr. Phail Wynn Jr. collection)
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s letter from Birmingham Jail and the struggle that changed a nation F 334 .B69 N446 2013
The Great Divergence: America’s growing inequality crisis and what we can do about it HC 110 .I5 N63 2012 (upstairs, Dr. Phail Wynn Jr. collection)
I See the Promised Land: A life of Martin Luther King, Jr PS 3556 .L598 I8 2010
The King Years: Historic moments in the civil rights movement
E 185.61 .B7913 2013
Martin Luther King: “I have a dream.” (DVD) E 185.97 .K5 M295 2005
Poor Kids: An intimate portrait of America’s economic crisis (DVD)
HV 741 .P66 2013
Social Justice HM 671 .S623 2010 (upstairs, Dr. Phail Wynn Jr. collection)
Social Welfare: Fighting poverty and homelessness HV 1553 .S62 2011
Search the online catalog for additional materials.
Durham Tech has a lot of partners that help provide a wide range of services and access to information. One of those partners is UNC Chapel Hill’s North Carolina Digital Heritage Center (http://www.digitalnc.org). The Center’s mission is support “community engagement and lifelong learning by promoting and increasing access to North Carolina’s cultural heritage.” This includes helping libraries like Durham Tech’s library digitize information, which increases access to the materials.
Materials from Durham Tech can be viewed here. Publications include course catalogs, yearbooks, annual reports, and issues of The Final Draft. You can browse their collection by contributor, county, and item type as well as search by keyword.
Without the help of the Digital Heritage Center, Durham Tech would not be able to make these publications as easily available online, and we appreciate their work helping us and other organizations make these materials more easily accessible to a wider audience.
There are excellent free apps available for mobile devices that can help you be successful at Durham Tech! Check out this great list from Consumer Reports which features apps for time management, studying, voice recording, wellness, and more.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/08/bet-apps-college-students/index.htm
Image from http://jquerymobile.com/donate-devices/
HQ 73 .R54 2012
HQ 76.3 .U5 B696 2011
KF 4754.5 .M64 2011
Becoming Visible : an illustrated history of lesbian and gay life in twentieth-century America HQ 75.16 .U6 M37 1998
Gay Rights Activists HQ 76.8 .U5 B86 2005
Hear Us Out! : lesbian and gay stories of struggle, progress and hope, 1950 to the present HQ 76.8 .U5 G357 2007
Making History : the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990 : an oral history HQ76.8 .U5 M36 1993
The Right to Be Out : sexual orientation and gender identity in America’s public schools LC 212.92 .B52 2010
The Right to Be Parents : LGBT families and the transformation of parenthood KF 540 .B35 2012
Stonewall Uprising (American Experience) [DVD] HQ 76.8 .U6 S76 2011
Word is Out [DVD] HQ 76.3 .U5 W673 2010
