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Daily Special: United States Botanical Garden at Home

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/05/17/14509/

Visit the country’s oldest garden, currently celebrating its 200th anniversary. The garden has created an interactive virtual tour with the help of Google Street View, providing 360-degree imagery of its outdoor plants and inside its 30,000 square foot conservatory. Visitors can explore at their...

Daily Special: New York Botanical Garden

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/05/16/daily-special-new-york-botanical-garden/

“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...

Daily Special: Mango Languages

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/05/14/daily-special-mango-languages/

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...

Daily Special: For the birds

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/05/11/daily-special-for-the-birds/

  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...

Daily Special: A Tale of Three Cities

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/05/10/daily-post-a-tale-of-three-cities/

 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…

Daily Special: How reading got farm women through the depression

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/05/09/daily-special-how-reading-got-farm-women-through-the-depression/

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…

Daily Special: No-wait Audiobooks on Hoopla

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/05/08/daily-special-no-wait-audiobooks-on-hoopla/

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...