EBSCOhost has offered Durham Tech temporary access to its eBook 
Academic Collection to help students and instructors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, Durham Tech has set up a trial subscription with EBSCOhost for its eBook Community College Collection. Between the two collections, that’s over 200,000 e-books, 88,000 of which are unique among Durham Tech’s current e-books.
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NC LIVE’s HomeGrown Collection Adds 495 Titles
NC LIVE recently announced the addition of 495 titles to its HomeGrown e-books collection. The new titles come from five publishers, including The University of North Carolina Press.
NC LIVE Has E-Books!
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
- ebrary Academic and Public Library Complete, which offers over 100,000 academic titles, about a third of which were published since 2010
- eBooks on EBSCOhost, with over 25,000 titles aimed at a variety of audiences, including researchers
- a collection of about 370 titles tailored to the Durham Tech community on the MyiLibrary platform
- twenty-six reference books from Gale Virtual Reference
- a few hundred titles including history reference, as well as study guides and critical companions to works of literature
- Learning Express Library Career and Test Prep
- One Click eBooks
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.
Cool Resource: Learning Express Library
LearningExpress Library offers online tutorials, practice tests and eBooks aimed at people who want to improve their test-taking and workplace skills.
LearningExpress Library offers the following :
- Self-paced e-courses for improving skills with Microsoft Word and Excel, social networking as part of the job search, and professional writing for cover letters and on-the-job reports.
- Practice tests for the GED, SAT, and GRE, plus a variety of occupational assessments. There are even resources for children and young adults preparing for standardized testing!
- eBooks that focus on career-ready basics, including managing personal finances, public speaking and statistics.
Patrons create a free account to access and save resources to their profile.
LearningExpress Library is available here: http://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=219
New Online Practice Exams Available in April 2012:
- NCLEX-RN Practice Test
- ASSET Practice Tests: Writing, Numerial, Reading, Elementary, Intermediate, and College Algebra, and Geometry Skills
New eBooks Available in April 2012:
- Nursing Assistant/Nurse Aide Exam, Fifth Edition
- Career Changer’s Manual
- 501 Geometry Questions, Second Edition
- ACT Flash Review
- Practical Math Success in 20 Minutes a Day, Fifth Edition
More E-books!
Thanks to NC LIVE, we now have access to even more e-books- the Open Library Borrowing Collection is now a part of NC LIVE!
This new source of freely available downloadable eBooks is available to all North Carolinians.
Interested? Find out more at http://nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=288 (password required off campus, contact us if you need it).