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Join Jennifer Jamsky, our Accessibility Services Coordinator, as she guides us on a tour through our sensory spaces, and highlights our sensory engagement resources!
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Group photo of Durham County staff and Project BUILD participants inside the Justice Resources Center.
Group photo of Durham County staff and Project BUILD participants inside the Justice Resources Center. Many are holding up hands in celebration.
Project BUILD is hosting a summer camp for participants and on Tuesday morning they had a meet and greet with the Board of County Commissioners Chair Nida Allam, Vice Chair Mike Lee, Wendy Jacobs, Stephen Valentine and Michelle Burton, as well as County Manager Claudia Hager!
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The North Carolina Collection – Durham history research happens here.
The photo below is an aerial view of Chapel Hill St. with the Carolina Theatre visible, middle left.
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For the photos below:
1. Main street at Five Points, looking towards what’s now Pizzeria Toro and M Pocha restaurants
2. Corner of Foster and Chapel Hill Streets, now the Marriott hotel
For the above photos:
1. View across the train tracks in front of the Durham Performing Arts Center, looking towards downtown up Mangum Street
2. 100 block of W. Main St. – these buildings are now the Pinhook, Pie Pushers, and Rock’s barber shop.
It’s Flashback Friday, and today we’re sharing photos of downtown Durham in the 1980s from the North Carolina Collection. You might be surprised by what looks the same – and by what’s changed over the past four decades! Do you recognize these locations around downtown?
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Interesting and intense are just a few words our library team member, Austin uses to describe a photographer's memoir!
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💻Anyone can be a victim to online scamming. This workshop will will go over basic online security, ways to spot common scams, and a few of the most recent scamming tactics to watch out for.
Event info.: durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14956548
A colorful bus with supplies bursting out if it in an illustration. Text reads Fill That Bus! Fuel the Year. Every school supply sparks possibility - for teachers, students, for Durham.
Donate to "Fill the Bus" by August 8! Help fuel the school year at Durham Public Schools for teachers & students by supporting the community-powered school supply drive by making a donation or dropping off supplies at Crayons2Calculators warehouse at 808 Bacon St or other locations. fillthatbus.org
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🍁🍁🍂Learn how leaving your leaves in the fall to naturally decompose back into your garden benefits the birds and insects, helps with climate change and flooding as well as saving time and money!
Event info.: durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/12770894
🎨Join us at Bragtown Branch Library for our Pawject Runway event on, July 30th from 4 - 5 p.m., to create a handmade craft for your pet!
📐We will have sewing machines, fabric, yarn, beads, and other materials for you to use.
Learn more: durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14725806
Collage of images from the latest edition of Durham This Week Online, the newsletter from the office of Durham County Manager Claudia Hager.
Hello, #DurhamCounty! It's time for the latest Durham This Week Online newsletter! Inside, Manager Hager provides an update on 2 partners using ARPA dollars to help small business & entrepreneurs in #DCo! We've also got plenty of #localgov news, jobs, events & more!
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BOCC meeting on Monday, July 28 at Human Services Building, Conference Rooms B & C, 414 E. Main Street. QR codes for downloading the agendas (bit.ly/BOCCdco) and joining meeting via Zoom bit.ly/DCoBOCC072825
NOTICE: Tonight's Board of County Commissioners Regular Session has been MOVED to the Human Services Building, 2nd Floor, Conference Rooms B & C, at 414 E. Main Street. Residents are invited to attend.
Meeting moved due to HVAC issues at the Administration I Building. Thank you for understanding.
Escape the heat today and join us at your favorite library location. The A/C is keeping us cool!
Please note that Durham County Library is closed on Sundays.
Please visit DurhamCountyLibrary.org for hours and locations.
For more information about hours and locations please visit us at DurhamCountyLibrary.org.
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🏆El diseño ganador se utilizará como LOGOTIPO OFICIAL del Festival de Bibliotecas 2026 en todos los productos y materiales de mercado.
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Library Fest Logo Concurso:¿Quién puede diseñarlo mejor?
Diseña un LOGO para Library Fest 2026 de la Biblioteca del Condado de Durham: Las historias que construyeron a Estados Unidos.
📣It's time for our 2026 Library Fest Logo Contest! Our theme for our 6th Edition of Library Fest will be "The Stories that Built Us." The winning design becomes the official logo of Library Fest 2026
Learn more: durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14939497
Flyer for 2025 School Supply Drive from the Durham County Sheriff's Office. Donate during July by dropping off at boxes on first, second, and third floor Sheriff office locations at 510 South Dillard Street. Email TRGilmer@durhamsheriff.org or call 919-560-7702 for more infomation.
🧵 As part of its annual Project Safe Neighborhoods Stop the Violence Resource Fair (coming in August), the Durham County Sheriff's Office is asking for donations of school supplies for our area youth! Donate items in marked drop boxes on the 1st, 2nd 3rd & floor lobbies at 510 S. Dillard St. 1/2
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Collage of images from the latest Durham This Week Online newsletter from the Durham County Manager's Office of Claudia Hager.
As the weekend approaches be sure to check out the latest Durham This Week Online! Inside, Manager Hager writes about the National Association of Counties Conference & our award-winning staff! We've also got #localgov news, jobs, events, videos & more!
Read it here: mailchi.mp/dconc/check-...
Temperatures are heating up again, but you can always cool down at your local library.
For more info about Durham County Library hours and locations click the link in our bio and select "Hours & Locations" or you can visit: durhamcountylibrary.org/hours-and-lo...
¡Todavía nos quedan algunas plazas! Traiga a toda su familia (¡y su apetito!) a la Biblioteca Principal y aprenda a preparar comidas deliciosas y saludables. Es necesario inscribirse:
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Looking for your next read? Our library team shares what they enjoyed the most about their favorite book!
📖 Book reviewed: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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Looking for your next read? Our library team shares what they enjoyed the most about their favorite book!
📖 Book reviewed: The Prediabetes Diet Plan by Hillary Wright, M.Ed, RDN
Visit us at our YouTube channel to see our new book review: youtube.com/shorts/d-GzO...
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For more information or to learn more about Durham’s history, visit durhamcountylibrary.org/ncc.
The North Carolina Collection – Durham history research happens here.
Image Information: NCC_0055_0180. Durham Historical Photograph collection (NCC.0055). North Carolina Collection, Durham County Library, NC.
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Introducing Flashback Friday! On the first Friday of each month, we’ll bring you a blast from the past straight from our archive. On the first Friday of each month, we’ll bring you a blast from the past straight from our archive.
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