Free online-resources

Delaware-specific online resources

Visit delawarelibraries.org/emedia for access to eBooks, Resources and more!

• Get aLibrary Card Online!
• Flipster – e-magazines
• Universal Class – over 500 online courses for Sussex County library card holders
• Overdrive – e-audios, e-books, streaming video – may have a wait list but you can have up to 7 items checked out at a time. We recommend using the Libby app by Overdrive when possible, for your ebooks and eaudiobooks, but it does not have streaming video.
• hoopla – e-audios, e-books, streaming video without the wait. Up to 4 checkouts a month
• Ask A Librarian – a live virtual reference service that offers online reference assistance.
• Sussex County Libraries – a wealth of other online information and resources.

eAudiobooks & eBooks Links

• NYPL App SimplE– 300,000 free e-books
• TumbleBooks – K-6 e-books
• TeenBookCloud – Streaming Teen audiobook library
• AudioBookCloud – Streaming audiobook library
• Project Gutenberg – free eBooks
• LibVox – eAudiobooks
• Read.gov has compiled a teens-only reading resource!
• Riveted – Free YA eBook
• AudiobookSync – audiobooks for teens
• 15 free eReading Apps

Educational resources

• A google doc that is in progress – AmazingEducationalResources
• Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Academy – free online courses for high school students
• Open Learn – 900+ free short courses
• Padlet – “high quality sites and apps that are supporting school closures with free resources”
• NASA STEM activities
• Follett e-learning resources for preK-12
• Bookshare – This “will help students with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers to continue learning during school closures.”

Virtual Tours

• 12 museums you can tour from home!
• Georgia Aquarium has live webcams stationed all around their aquarium where you can watch penguins, beluga whales, sea lions, otters, piranha feeding times, and more!

Storytimes

• Story Time from Space
• Storyline Online – Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
• Who Would Win – Author Jerry Pallotta reads one of his books.

Other resources

• Smithsonian images
• NASA images
• DuoLingo – learn another language!
• Websites where kids can create books
• How to use Zoom – a useful tool since a lot of things are being listed as live on Zoom
• Mansfield/Richland County Library’s post of museum tours, theatres, zoos, field trips and national parks to visit virtually. They also have a ton of links for things to do with kids at home.
• Chatterpack – free online boredom busting resources – virtual tours, online learning, concerts
• Museum Computer Network’s ultimate guide to virtual tours and e-resources
• Hogwart’s Digital Escape Room – from Peters Township Public Library
• Escape the Fairy Tale – another digital escape room – from East Orange County Public Library, NJ
• Cinderella Escape Room – another digital escape room – from Henika District Library in Wayland, Michigan
• Escape from Wonderland – digital escape room – from Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System in Moultrie, Georgia
• Books Alive! Escape the Rhyme – digital escape room – This is an escape room for all ages, and intended to be worked on as a family – don’t let the theme fool you! These puzzles range from very simple to quite challenging, making it something the whole family can do together! You’ll need to know some nursery rhymes for these challenges, so if you have a nursery rhyme book, now’s a great time to pull it out. – from Bay County Library in Bay City, Michigan
• Help Fez the Pheasant Escape the Library! – digital escape room – from Vermillion Public Library in Vermillion, South Dakota
• Binging with Babish – basic cooking techniques