Social Distancing: Online Resources

eBooks and eAudiobooks free with your library card! Access the Wisconsin Digital Library by downloading the Libby app for iOS and Android.

The Library of Congress has multiple collections available online, consisting of over 2 million scans of historic books, photos, and other materials.

eBooks available anytime, anywhere, free with your library card.

If you are interested in space and science, NASA has an e-book collection available to the public for free. Their website also contains multiple educational resources to explore.

Digital magazines on your smart devices included with your library card.

A large selection of poems available to read, including poem-a-day. Check out their selection, fall in love with a few new poems and maybe sign up for their poem-a-day newsletter.

eBooks and eAudiobooks free with your library card! Access the Wisconsin Digital Library by downloading the Libby app for iOS and Android.

LibriVox Audio Books offers unlimited access to over 24,000 free audiobooks. Each LibriVox audiobook can be streamed over the internet or downloaded for later use without any charge.

NPR offers up not only a large collection of music to listen to, but a large collection of live streamed and recorded jam sessions, concerts and events.

Free access to live-streamed concerts and recordings for the next 30 days.

“Every day for the duration of the Met’s closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series will be made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 20 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 3:30 p.m. the following day.”

“The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra will be available to all music lovers on GSOplay. The concerts can be enjoyed for free for anyone on the web or through [their] app – wherever you are.”

BadgerLink provides Wisconsin residents with licensed trustworthy content not available in free search engines.

“Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.”

MORE Research page helps you find magazine & newspaper articles, genealogy sources, and more!

“Produced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. We offer nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subject areas. Our courses are available to start right away.”

Learn more than 100 languages at home or on the go with your library card.

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“The Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits…”

Has live camera feeds of Apes, Baboons, Burrowing Owls, Condors, Elephants, Giraffes, Koalas, Penguins, Polar Bears, and Tigers.

Features content from over 1200 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute.

Guide yourself on a virtual tour of the Great Wall of China.

“Visit the museum’s exhibition rooms and galleries, contemplate the façades of the Louvre… Come along on a virtual tour and enjoy the view, thanks to the sponsorship of Shiseido.”

Has live camera feeds of Jellyfish, Penguins, Sharks and large aquarium views.