Did you know that the Durham Tech Library has a whole collection of children's picture books? Well, we do! They are located against the wall on the lower level of the library. We have classics, awards winners, and freshly published titles for you check out. My personal favorites are the ones with dragons in them. Dragons are great. Come by and check some out. I bet someone wants you to read to them!

This movie was watched by Julie Humphrey, Library Director. Title: At Eternity’s Gate Director: Julian Schnabel Genre: Drama Why did you choose to watch this movie? I liked one of the director’s previous films ( The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and I wanted to learn more about Vincent Van Gogh. Willem Dafoe was nominated for a best actor academy award for this role and I really like his acting and I enjoy biopics. What did you like about it? It was a fascinating and vivid portrait of the

Each June, the library celebrates the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities by highlighting resources in our collection. We have recently added several new DVDs and books at Main Campus Library! Explore the library’s guide to LGBTQ resources for fiction, graphic novels, nonfiction, ebooks, DVDs, streaming video, and recommended websites. Last week Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed June as LGBTQ Pride Month in North Carolina. The month of June was chosen to commemorate the riots that

Hello, all you wonderful people out there! June is Audiobook Month, and I'm here to tell you why you should consider audiobooks if you don't already listen to them and where to find more audiobooks if you do. Audiobook listening is on the rise. People listen to them to make a commute more pleasant, to distract themselves from folding laundry, or hear an author read their book the way they meant it to be heard. Also, it's easy and fun! Let's get something out of the way. There are people out

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. The HomeGrown collection has grown to include 3,600 e-books, which are hosted on the BiblioBoard platform. They are organized into "curations": fiction, nonfiction and young adult/juvenile titles. You can also use the site's search tool to find books by keyword. Each curation is sub-divided into categories. For

We have so many amazing new books (and beautiful covers) this month! I'm including more than usual and I STILL couldn't include them all. You're going to have to stop by and check them out yourself. (See what I did there :) )

Title: Meal Author: Blue Delliquanti with Soleil Ho Format: Graphic Novel Genre: Fiction Why did you choose to read this book? The cover drew me to it at first. I like food and I like books about food and the images of the characters looked fun. Then, once I realized it was about eating bugs I was even more fascinated. What did you like about it? I really liked the diverse cast of characters the book has along with the LGBT romance. Lots of representation of groups that are underrepresented in

Title: There There Author: Tommy Orange Genre: fiction Why did you choose to read this book? There There appeared on so many best-books-of-2018 lists and received rave reviews from authors and critics alike that I felt like it was following me, or the universe was telling me to read this book. Also, my book club chose it. Tommy Orange’s debut novel traces the journey, through chapters named after the characters, of about a dozen Native Americans to the Big Oakland Powwow in California. It is set

The library is excited to host our fourth annual Student Art Exhibition which features wonderful art works by our talented Associate in Fine Arts students. Paintings, ceramics, sculpture, and drawings are presented. The art will be on display through May 2nd. Enjoy photos of some of the art works in the exhibition below. An opening reception with refreshments will be held on Wed. Apr. 24 from 4:00-6:00 pm in Library Room 212 to celebrate the artists.

Pollen dust cloud got you down? Try these pollen-free* new reads in their freshly wrapped dust jackets. *No guarantees once they leave the library. It's brutal out there, y'all.