New movies available at the library now

Summer is a great time for movie watching!  You may borrow two movies at a time for a week.

New Feature Films:

Anna Karenina

Argo

Django Unchained

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

The Master

Perks of Being a Wallflower

Silver linings playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

 Documentaries:

The Abolitionists

Brushes with Life: Art, artists, and mental illness

Bully

Cuban missile crisis: Three men go to war

Dropout Nation

Forensics on Trial

From the Other Side

How to Survive a Plague

Hot coffee: Is justice being served?

The Loving story

Makers: Women who make America

Poor kids: An intimate portrait of America’s economic crisis

Searching for Sugar Man

They call it Myanmar: Lifting the curtain

Weight of the Nation

Search the online catalog for call numbers and more information about the films.

Get growing with great gardening resources

Check out the library’s display of gardening resources downstairs on the lower level for ideas and inspiration:

•  American grown : the story of the White House kitchen garden and gardens across America  
• The vegetable gardener’s container bible : how to grow a bounty of food in pots, tubs, and other containers
• The ultimate guide to growing your own food : save money, live better, and enjoy life with food from your own garden
• From seed to skillet : a guide to growing, tending, harvesting, and cooking up fresh, healthful food to share with people you love
• Reclaiming our food : how the grassroots food movement is changing the way we eat
• Grow great grub : organic food from small spaces
• Basic gardening skills
  
• The new American homestead : sustainable, self-sufficient living in the country or in the city
• Organic manifesto : how organic farming can heal our planet, feed the world, and keep us safe
• Growing it here, growing it now [videorecording]
• The garden [videorecording]

                                                 Search the online catalog for more titles.

  Recommended gardening blogs and websites:   

• Briggs Avenue Community Garden
• Durham Master Garden
• Organic Gardening magazine
• Triangle Gardener

• You Grow  Girl
• Veggie Gardening Tips

Summer semster hours

Main Campus Library Hours:

Mon. – Thurs. 8:00 – 6:30

Fri. 8:00 – 12:oo

OCC Library Hours:

Mon. – Thurs. 10:00 – 1:00

Congratulations, Mary Kennery!

Mary Kennery, Library Technician, receives award (photograph by Susan Baker)

We are pleased to announce that our Library Technician, Mary Kennery, has won the 2013 Excellence in Support Services Award at Durham Tech.  This prestigious award is presented to an employee who promotes excellence, innovation, and dedication in service to the students and to the larger community of Durham Tech.

Mary is an exceptionally productive team member at both the Main campus and  Orange County campuses.  She is extremely hard working behind the scenes ordering, processing, and cataloging  materials for the library.  Mary really helps us to keep the library running smoothly on a daily basis.   She is dedicated to serving students, faculty, and staff, and always goes the extra mile to help library patrons.   Mary has an enormous heart and volunteers for campus service projects.

Click here to read more about all of DTCC’s award winners this year.

Congratulations, Mary!  You are so deserving of this honor!

Library staff want your feedback! Please tell us what you think!

We have a white board set up in the library to collect feedback about your library experiences.  You can also use this blog to share your opinions.  

Feel free to answer the following questions by submitting a comment.

How have you used the library this academic year?

What do you like about the library?

What could the library do to improve your experience?

 

You can also take our library survey to give us your opinions on our resources, services, and spaces.

We really value your feed feedback.  Thanks for your time.  

Testing, testing!

It’s close to time for exams, but the library has another kind of testing already going on. We’re trying out new chat software that lets us IM with students, faculty, or anyone else who needs assistance. To start talking with us, go to the library homepage and click on the chat icon in the middle of the page, near the bottom. If we’re available to chat, the icon looks like:

If we’re not available, a different icon indicates that we’re away. Chat with us, and let us know what you think! We hope that this will help library services be more widely accessible, helping us reach patrons who may not be able to come into the library because of distance, work schedules, or other issues. Even if you’re in the library, though, we’d love to chat with you!

Attention, graduates! Career resources are available for you in the library and online!

Take a look at our Career Resources LibGuide for lots of good materials and links.

Did you know that DTCC has an online Career Center?

New print resources in the library:

• Job interviews for dummies
  Call Number: HF 5549.5 .I6 K393 2012

• The Essential Phone Interview Handbook
  Call Number: HF 5549.5 .I6 B295 2011

• Resume 101
  Call Number: HF 5383 .S3275 2012
• Hot Health Care Careers
  Call Number: R 690 .H68 2011

• Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies
  Call Number: HF 5382.7 .W35 2011