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[caption id="attachment_4406" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Available at Main Campus Library: QL 31 .G58 J36 2017[/caption] This movie was watched by Julie Humphrey, Library Director. Title: Jane Director: Brett Morgen Genre: Documentary Why did you choose to watch this movie? I am a huge admirer of primatologist, Jane Goodall, and her animal conservation work. I had heard that this film featured never-before-seen archival footage of her years working in Tanzania in the early 1960’s. What did

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Title: She’s Come Undone Author: Wally Lamb Genre: fiction Why did you choose to read this book? She’s Come Undone has been on my to-read list and I saw it on the library’s display of books for Mental Health Awareness Month (May). What did you like about it? I thought it was well-written and a compelling portrait of a fictional character, Dolores Price. The novel is told from her perspective and follows her through her 30s. Dolores Price’s story picks up with her as a little girl whose parents’

In a repeating series highlighting current and recent reads around ������, here’s ������’s awesome faculty and staff’s current or recently finished summer reads: [gallery link="none" size="medium" ids="4339,4341,4342,4343,4344,4345,4346,4347,4348,4349,4350,4351,4352,4353,4354,4355,4356,4357,4358,4359,4360,4361,4362,4363,4364,4365,4366,4367,4368,4369,4370,4371,4372,4373,4374,4375,4376,4377,4378,4379,4380,4381" orderby="rand"] Need help finding a book in-library or requesting a book

[caption id="attachment_4332" align="alignright" width="371"] " New desk in use" by brewbooks is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.[/caption] NC LIVE recently announced that it is wading into the Open Educational Resources waters with a new initiative, Open Education North Carolina. NC LIVE's initiative "aims to reduce the cost of higher education for North Carolina students by providing free, open e-textbooks for 30 of the most frequently-taught courses across North Carolina’s colleges and

[caption id="attachment_4232" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Available at the Main and Orange County Campus Libraries on the new books shelf[/caption] This book was read by Courtney Bippley, Reference Librarian at the Main Campus, and Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Fantasy, YA #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book with a supernatural creature [yup], occurrence [yup], or event [yup] Find out more about the Read Great Things Challenge here. Why did you choose to read this

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������ Library is celebrating the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community this month. We have a display of books on the lower level of the library. [caption id="attachment_4295" align="aligncenter" width="3024"] Image from www.dclibrary.org[/caption] Explore the library’s guide to LGBTQ resources for books, ebooks, DVDs, streaming video, and recommended websites: http://durhamtech.libguides.com/LGBTQ Pick up a

Title: Righteous Author: Joe Ide Genre: mystery Why did you choose to read this book? I enjoyed reading the first book in this series, IQ . What did you like about it? Like IQ , this is a fast-paced detective story featuring Isaiah Quintabe (“IQ”), a self-made private investigator in Los Angeles. IQ uses a combination of reasoning, cunning, surveillance and lock-picking skills and Krav Maga in his pursuit of justice. Several characters return from Ide’s debut novel in this sequel. When IQ

The ������ Library accomplished a lot this year! We held 72 class instruction sessions in the library to teach 1221 students about information literacy, citations, and how to use our resources. Between the big windows and the stands on the lower level we put up 31 themed displays. Nine hundred and forty-seven new books and DVDs were added to our collection, and that doesn't even include donations from a variety of generous individuals. In cooperation with NC LIVE, we've added 59 new