Category: Daily Special

“NYBG at Home,” invites online visitors to embark on a number of virtual tours and digital experiences. A  video tour of its 2020 orchid show includes an NYBG curator guiding virtual visitors through the exhibit as he shares his extensive knowledge of these beloved...

You’ve been saying for years that you wanted to learn a language.  Well, now’s the time to carpe the diem!  Mango offers carefully structured courses that allow you to build vocabulary and grammar at your own pace in more than 70 languages, including (besides...

  Visit the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Cams, a virtual window into the natural world of birds. While you are there, take a moment to check out Merlin for help identifying your feathered friends! And then Save the Date for our “State of...

 A tale of three cities: the places transformed by pandemics across history. Marseille in 1720, Hamburg in 1892 and the Swedish city of Östersund in 1918 were all indelibly shaped by diseases. Read on…

What do we do for entertainment when we’re stuck at home? For South Dakota women during the Great Depression, librarian Lisa Lindell writes, there was pretty much one option: reading. read on…

Ever wanted to listen to a book on the Libby app, but there was a long waiting list? What if you have nothing to listen to?  Hoopla is a great choice if you want to download something right away. Hoopla often doesn’t have the...

We’re stuck at home but, ironically, we can attend more library programs than ever! More than 300 public libraries across Massachusetts are now offering thousands of free virtual programs. As a result, you can now be in many places at once! On Thursday at...