Check out some of our staff recommendations that celebrate woman authors and experiences for Women’s History Month that are also available through Dogwood Digital Library– accessible through our database list or through the Libby app.
Continue Reading →This episode was difficult to name since I talked about many different things with Dana Cea, a PhD student at ECU (pronouns she/her or they/them). Listen to learn about how to support LGBTQ+ students, how to find a therapist that fits you, and what we should be doing to help disabled students.
Listen to the podcastNext week (April 4-10) is both Durham County Library’s Library Fest and National Library Week. How exciting!
Keep reading for more info and drawing info!
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Can’t get enough streaming video?
You’re in luck–the Durham Tech Library now has more online video content!
AVON (Academic Video Online) is a new library database we’re excited to offer. It features 70,000 searchable, citable, closed captioned titles spanning a wide range of subject areas (allied health, art, automotive technologies, business, counseling, communication studies, criminal justice, engineering, history, psychology, sociology) and even feature films and award winners.
Want to see some of AVON’s options? Keep reading!
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Title: Bridgerton, Season 1 (available streaming on Netflix)
Genre: Period drama; Romance; Regency Romance
This series was watched by Rachel Smith, Northern Durham Center Librarian.
Set in 19th-century London, Bridgerton centers on the aristocratic Bridgerton family. The widow Violet, Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton is mother to eight children. As eldest daughter Daphne Bridgerton enters her first courting season with Queen Charlotte’s favor, she meets Simon Bassett, Duke of Hastings and best friend of her eldest brother, Anthony. Despite being encouraged by his mentor, Lady Danbury, the Duke is determined not to ever get married and he plots with Daphne to secure his bachelordom and to secure her a suitable marriage.
Continue Reading →It’s time for another make-at-home Crafternoon adventure!
The Student Government Association and the Library are giving out tie dye kits to current students, which include three colors (blues, yellows, and reds), gloves, and some rubber bands. You’ll provide your own shirt, bag, pants, scarf, hat, whatever you want to dye (in cotton, polyester, or blended fabric). If you would like one, email us at library@durhamtech.edu and we’ll schedule a time for you to pick it up. You can also drop by the Food Pantry outdoor pickup while they’re open to pick up a kit as well.
Can’t make it to campus to pick up a kit or want to buy your own? We’re using this kit from Michael’s– you can choose from Rainbow, Shark, Mermaid, and Unicorn if you’re buying your own. Or explore the many other options available on the web.
Keep reading for a few tips, tricks, and design ideas from around the web.
Continue Reading →Reader, I confess: I’ve never read Jane Eyre. I had a profoundly bad experience with another Brontë sister in high school that has biased me against the other Brontës. Fair? Nope, but sometimes reading isn’t fair when there are lots of other choices out there.
However, I did recently read Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye about a orphan-turned-governess (with some life experience in between) who keeps coming across the opportunity to murder folks. She picks up a copy of Jane Eyre and is compelled to confess her life story and misdeeds. She’s not arbitrarily murdery, but–shucks–it just keeps happening.
So let’s do this WWR thing–
Title: Jane Steele
Author: Lyndsay Faye
Genre: Historical Fiction (takes place in Victorian England)
Available at the Orange County Campus (PS 3606 .A96 J36 2016)
Read Great Things 2021 Categories: A book that takes place outside the continental United States; A book about family; Choose your own category–A book inspired by another book; A book recommended by Durham Tech Library staff (our favorite category)
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Courtney talks with Larry Chapman about how to get free financial coaching at Durham Tech! The conversation covers who is eligible, what to bring, what you could ask, and favorite financial advice. And, of course, books about money!
Continue Reading →Tune into yourself with books that will help you with your self-care goals through the Read Great Things 2021 Challenge.
Self-care can be about taking care of yourself in many ways: emotionally, spiritually, creatively, physically, or mentally.
Keep reading for some suggestions based on what your own self-care goals might look like, including some suggestions contributed by your Durham Tech community.
Continue Reading →March 8 is International Women’s Day and was created to focus on the achievements of women across the globe and emphasize the continued need to push for gender parity.
This year’s theme is “Choose to Challenge,” acknowledging that gender bias left unchallenged allows it to continue.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, check out some of the books that the Durham Tech Library has online and in our physical collection to celebrate women’s voices, accomplishments, and experiences.
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