Summer Reading with the Durham Tech Library

Libraries and reading are associated no matter how much times change, and the Durham Tech Library is here to help you with your summer reading goals.

Stop by the Main Campus Library during our summer hours (posted on the Durham Tech Library website and updated, if needed, on our Instagram) and check out our front window displays for some recommendations from our collection.

The Orange County Campus is also open for your book checkout, computer use, or quiet study needs this summer.

Do you like to read for some sweet, sweet library swag?

While the Durham Tech Library doesn't do a formal summer reading program like many public libraries do, we do have an on-going annual reading challenge called the Read Great Things Challenge.

This year it's BINGO. It started in January and ends in December, so you've got a whole year to get a BINGO (or several!). Go ahead and get started this summer!

Are you a Durham Tech faculty or staff member and want to join in with our current reading groups?

The Library will be launching our next reading circle and book clubfor faculty and staff in June.

A reading circle consists of 4 meetings (1 hour per week for 4 weeks)-- this summer, we'll be reading Making Numbers Count.

This summer's faculty and staff book club (one meeting, one hour, in mid-July around the end of the 8 week term) is The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.

Want to run your own summer reading group using our sets that isn't currently the College-wide option? Great! Contact Librarian Meredith Lewis (lewisma @ durhamtech.edu) to reserve and discuss for your group.

Want to select your own summer reading virtually?

We have a wide variety of print books at the Main and Orange County Campus Libraries and can register you for a library account on the spot with any photo ID. Search our catalog to find local holdings.

Like audiobooks and ebooks? Add Dogwood Digital Collection to your Libby app for bonus ebooks and audiobooks available through the NC Community College Libraries collaborative online library collection. Your "library card" on that is your Durham Tech username and password (just like when you log into your computer).

Want to know some of the books on Durham Tech's personal summer reading lists?

Click the book title to explore more about the book.