MAYbe You Should Check Out the New Books at the Orange County Campus Library

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New books at OCC just in time for summer session! Our Library summer hours start Monday, May 15 (though Librarian hours start at OCC the week of May 15). The Main Campus Library will be open Monday and Tuesday 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Wednesday and Thursday 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. The Orange County Campus Library will be open for general use Monday through Thursday from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM; the Librarian will be available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Library services will be virtual on Fridays-- utilize

National Library Week: Right to Read Day

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National Library Week is April 23-29, 2023, a time celebrate our nation's libraries, library workers' contributions, and promote library use and support. This year's theme is There's More to the Story. Today is Right to Read Day, a call to action to fight back against censorship to defend, protect, and celebrate your right to read freely. The American Library Association has also released its most challenged books of 2022 as part of its State of American Libraries 2022 report [link to webpage

Invest in Our Planet!: Earth Week 2023

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Celebrate locally! 麻豆影视's Earth Day Festival is on Sunday, April 23 from 12:00 to 5:00 PM at 麻豆影视 Central Park. Raleigh's community Earth Day event will be on Friday, April 21 from 5:00 to 10:00 PM at Dix Park. Orange County has several events planned, including Earth Day Celebration Carrboro, taking place on Saturday, April 22 from 3:30 to 6:00 PM in the Carrboro Town Commons. Climate change is a huge issue and can make a lot of folks feel helpless. So--What can you do? While there's no

2023 麻豆影视 Library Poetry Month Bookmarks!

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2023's poetry month bookmarks have 鈥淓verything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before鈥 by Ina Cari帽o, 鈥淎llowables鈥 by Nikki Giovanni, "Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale" by Dan Albergotti , "[after Ross Gay鈥檚 'A Small Needful Fact' and Jay Ward鈥檚 'Ars Poetica in Which the Dead Child is Renamed as a Flower']" by 麻豆影视's Poet Laureate (2022-23) DJ Rogers, and 鈥淲hat It Looks Like To Us and the Words We Use鈥 by current US Poet Laureate Ada Lim贸n. The file is a pdf, so you can print your

New Cookbooks and Culinary Resources

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The Library supports the Culinary Arts program and the 麻豆影视 community with cookbooks, ebooks, databases, and streaming video collections related to cooking, nutrition, food science, and more. Enjoy cooking and baking with this global collection of new cookbooks! We hope you find some inspiration here with new recipes and ideas. We also have cookbook ebooks available through the NC LIVE Home Grown eBooks, which includes a Food and Wine collection. The library also provides the Gale

NEW BOOKS to Celebrate Women's History Month

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March is Women's History Month and while we've highlighted #EmbraceEquity for International Women's Day, many of our new books in our Main Campus, Orange County Campus, and Dogwood Digital Library collections highlight the accomplishments and stories of women, both historical and contemporary. Check out these new books by and about women at-- the Main Campus in 麻豆影视 the Orange County Campus in Hillsborough and some audiobooks in our Dogwood Digital Library (available through your Libby app

Are book clubs cool? Want to join one?

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I think the real question is-- do we care if book clubs are cool? No. No, we do not care because we're beyond doing what other people think is "cool" and are more interested in doing things that bring us joy and help us explore ideas with openness and curiosity. Plus sometimes there be dragons. The 麻豆影视 Library is gathering data for faculty and staff reading groups. Take our survey and let us know what types of books and reading groups you'd be interested in joining and if you'd be

What We're Reading: Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

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It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. She agrees to accompany him on trips to discover an "authentic" Korea, [b]ut he takes no interest in the Sokcho she knows. As she's pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings, she

International Women's Day: #EmbraceEquity

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March 8 is International Women's Day (IWD). This year's theme is #EmbraceEquity to get the world talking about Why equal opportunities aren't enough. People start from different places, so true inclusion and belonging require equitable action. Inclusion should be intersectional and is for all ages. We can all be allies to #EmbraceEquity. https://youtu.be/wPbOORwmFA0 (Wait, what does intersectionality have to do with IWD? All forms of inequality are mutually reinforcing and must therefore be