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At Home Resources

Are you looking for something to do, read, watch, or learn? Here is a great list of resources, including books and reading for kids, young adults, and adults, virtual tours, and animal livecams.


Books and Reading

For All Ages

Cloud Library


For Kids


Famous actors including David Harbour, James Earl Jones and Betty White do storytime!
International Children’s Library
Library of Congress Classic Children’s Books
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
Raising Readers Book Activity Kits
Spanish Storytimes


For Young Adults

Riveted


For Adults

Find Your Next Author to Read
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Lithub Personalized Book Recommendations
Manga Volumes Released Online for Free
Manybooks
NPR Book Concierge
One Hundred Books Across America
Project Gutenberg
Read Print
Tor’s eBook of the Month Club (Science Fiction and Fantasy)


General Information Sources

Digital Maine Library

Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest)

Canva (free design templates)

Coursera (skills with courses, certificates and degrees online from universities and companies)

Digital Skills Diagnostic Test (free 15-minute test)

Free Online Resume Builder

Resources in Career Planning, Job Search, Applying for Jobs, Workplace Skills, Work Life

Indeed (Job Search)

Khan Academy

LinkedIn (job search, networking)

Slides Carnival (free Power Point templates and Google Slides themes for presentations

Zoom Basics: Step by Step Guide

Google for Education: Applied Digital Skills (free video lessons on practical digital skills)

code.org (free computer science classes and activities for students from kindergarten through high school)

NASA Image and Video Library

Scratch (a programming language and online community where children can code their own interative stories, animations, and games)


Virtual Tours and Livestreams

Farms and Aquariums

Folly Farm (U.K.)
Georgia Aquarium
Maine Alpaca Farm
Monterey Bay Aquarium
New England Aquarium

Live Animal Cams

African Animals
Houston Zoo Webcams
Decorah North Eagles (Nest Cams)
National Arboretum Bald Eagle Nest Cams
National Zoo Webcams
San Diego Zoo Live Cams
Woodland Park Zoo

Museums and Galleries and National Parks

Art Institute of Chicago Image Archive
Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Children’s Museum
Farnsworth Museum
Google Arts & Culture: Collections
Google Earth: National Parks
National Parks: guided tours
Portland Museum of Art

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