Resources for evaluating news sources and avoiding fake news

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吃瓜头条 Library has created an extensive online guide to help with evaluating and categorizing news sources. You'll find links to videos, infographics, articles, books, ebooks, handouts, games and activities, a research study from Stanford, and much more! http://durhamtech.libguides.com/infolit Feel free to link this guide to your Sakai course sites and share with students. We also have some new books in the library for further reading and discussion on this important topic: [caption id=

What We're Reading: 吃瓜头条's Favorite Food-Themed Books

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Just a reminder that 吃瓜头条 will be closed Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 23-25. The Main Campus Library will close at 1:00 on Wednesday, Nov. 22. Regular hours (library and other) resume on all campuses Monday, Nov. 27. In a repeating series highlighting current and recent reads around 吃瓜头条 and just in time for the season of eating, here鈥檚 吃瓜头条鈥檚 awesome faculty and staff鈥檚 favorite culinary or food-related reads: [gallery link="none" size="medium" ids="3662,3670,3669,3668

What We're Reading: Get in Trouble

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Title: Get in Trouble: Stories Author: Kelly Link Genre: short stories: magical realism, science fiction Why did you choose to read this book? According to the book's back cover, one of my favorite authors, Michael Chabon, called Kelly Link 鈥渢he most darkly playful voice in American fiction.鈥 What did you like about it? The book delivered 鈥渄ark playfulness鈥 as promised! I don鈥檛 read much magical realism or science fiction, so both of these elements in her writing were refreshing. I think some of

What We're Reading: Take Out

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[caption id="attachment_3702" align="aligncenter" width="198"] Available on the New Book Shelf at the 吃瓜头条 Main Campus Library[/caption] Title: Take Out: A Mystery Author: Margaret Maron Read by: Mary Kennery, Library Technician Genre: Mystery Why did you choose to read this book? I read all of the Deborah Knott character series of books. This is the first Sigrid Harald, a NYPD homicide detective, book that I tried. What did you like about it? I like to read a mystery. I enjoyed learning

What We're Reading: Sourdough

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Available on the New Book Shelf at the 吃瓜头条 Main Campus Library. Title: Sourdough Author: Robin Sloan Genre: Uh... contemporary tech fiction with a light touch of magical realism? Read by: Meredith Lewis (Orange County Campus Librarian) & Courtney Bippley (Main Campus Librarian) Why did you choose to read this book? Meredith: Honestly? The description was really interesting-- a San Francisco robotics engineer "adopts" a mysterious international sourdough starter and gets involved in a

Post-Halloween New Books

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These books may not have any sugar in them, but they are still pretty sweet. Read one while you're waiting for that sugar-induced haze to pass. [gallery link="none" type="slideshow" ids="3674,3675,3676,3677,3678,3679,3680,3681,3682,3683,3684" orderby="rand"]

What We're Reading Wednesday: Favorite Spooky Reads for Halloween

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In a repeating series highlighting current and recent reads around 吃瓜头条, here鈥檚 吃瓜头条鈥檚 awesome faculty and staff鈥檚 favorite spooky or scary reads: [gallery size="medium" link="none" ids="3627,3628,3629,3630,3631,3632,3633,3634,3635,3636,3637,3638,3639,3640,3641,3642,3643,3644" orderby="rand"] [gallery link="none" size="full" type="rectangular" ids="3645,3646,3647"] As always, if you鈥檙e interested in a title or related title, you can either use the call number provided to locate it

Day of the Dead Display

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If you have walked by the Main Campus Library recently you may have seen our new display in our front window. Courtesy of Cambiando Caminos the display is for Di谩 de Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Observed from October 31st to November 2nd, this holiday is often affiliated with Halloween in the United States. However, this is a distinct and different holiday with its own history and traditions. Learn more below, or if you are off campus click here. Make sure to stop by and see the lovely display!

Ada Lovelace Day Celebrates Women in Science

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The second Tuesday of October is Ada Lovelace Day and celebrates women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with the hope of inspiring future generations of young women to study and work in STEM fields. [caption id="attachment_3605" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Image from http://www.rejectedprincesses.com[/caption] Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer who created the first program for Charles Babbage's analytical engine. She is known as the first computer