Durham Tech Digital Archives

There are lots of treasures to be discovered in Durham Tech’s Digital Archives!  The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We have partnered with the Digital Heritage Center to digitize and publish Durham Tech’s historic materials online.

Click here to view more than 100 archived documents including yearbooks, newsletters, annual reports, and college catalogs from Durham Technical Community College.

Did you know that the college had a basketball team in 1967?

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Durham Tech Basketball Team 1967 photo from The Widget yearbook

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know that the Northern Durham Center opened in 1994?

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Update Newsletter, Winter 1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read the very first edition of the Final Draft Literary Journal from 1990!

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The Final Draft Literary Journal Fall 1990

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read articles by Dr. Peter Wooldridge and Dr. Christine Kelly-Kleese in the very first issue of The Learning Matters journal from 2002.

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Learning Matters Journal Spring 2002

The Digital Heritage Center

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.

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