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Daily Special: Game On! with Roll20

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/04/23/daily-special-game-on-with-roll20/

With a free account at Roll20, you can play favorites like Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulu, and many more.  You can join an existing group, or create your own, with a game that you built from scratch.  The possibilities are almost endless.

Daily Special: Lynda is back!

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/04/17/daily-special-lynda-is-back/

Lynda.com–everyone’s favorite training and education database–returns to our roster of resources.  Simply log in with your Wayland library card and PIN, and enjoy access to thousands of courses.  Learn a new career skill or brush up a current one in software or web development,...

Daily Special: Digital Harry Potter–No Waiting

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/04/16/digital-harry-potter-no-waiting/

For the month of April, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone–the first book in the phenomenally popular series–is available on both Overdrive and Hoopla, as ebook or audiobook, with no awaiting.  What’s more, Overdrive has it in 21 languages, to read or listen to! ...

Remote Reference by Phone

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/04/14/new-remote-reference-by-phone/

Of course, we’ve always provided reference by phone, but never while we were closed.  Unusual times call for unusual measures, however.  If you have a reference question, feel free to call (508) 358-2311 and follow the recorded prompt.  We’ll check that mailbox every morning...

Daily Special: 3 Thrills from Jacqueline

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/04/09/daily-special-3-thrills-from-jacqueline/

You’ve probably seen Jacqueline doing her usual exemplary job behind the Circulation Desk.  But who would suspect that beneath that sunny countenance beat the dark heart of–a thriller reader!  Here are three of her latest recommendations: The Other Mrs. is a thriller/suspense novel by...

Daily Special: Smithsonian Portraits, Virtually

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/04/06/smithsonian-portraits-virtually/

Take a fascinating stroll through The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, which tells the history of America through individuals who have shaped its culture. Through the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and...

Daily Special: The PEN Pod

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/03/31/daily-special-the-pen-pod/

PEN America is the national branch of a worldwide organization that advocates for writers and freedom of expression.  With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, PEN America has launched a series of podcasts in which writers talk about literature and our lives in a...