fun at home

• Musicians are taking to social media and streaming platforms to play live for their fans. Check out NPR Virtual Concerts for live-streaming entertainment.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting

• Web portal providing access to over 50,000 hours of public television and radio programming aired over the past 70 years.  The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity.

• Celebrate Women’s History Month with The New York Historical Society and their tribute to women of the Supreme Court. Listen to a couple of fascinating talks about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor.

• If you’re cooped-up and curious, slews of institutions are in the market for armchair archivists—volunteers who can generate knowledge by clicking through digitized resources, deciphering handwriting, tagging photos, and more.

• Take online courses from the world's top universities for free. You will find 1,500 online courses from universities like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more.  You can use this collection of online courses to learn everything you want--from history, philosophy & literature, to physics, biology, psychology, and computer science.

• Childrens Museum of Manhattan is sharing videos, sing-a-longs, games and so much more !

• These 12 museums from around the world are offering virtual tours you can take from your couch.

• Enjoy New Jersey’s Grounds for Sculpture here.

• Get creative with art activities for the whole family inspired by the Museum of Modern Art.

• Try MoMA’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera.

• Learn about New York’s past through nearly 205,000 objects from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

• Here at Leonia Public Library, we love Mo’ Willems! Join him everyday in his studio for Lunch Doodles!

• Explore the Wonders of the world with Wonderopolis, an educational resource!

• World Book is offering a variety of ways for parents and caregivers to engage kids while promoting remote learning.

• Crafts to do at home!

• Try this Harry Potter Digital Escape Room:

  • This escape experience was created by Sydney Krawiec, Youth Services Librarian at Peters Township Public Library in McMurray, PA.

• Try this Star Wars Digital Escape Room:

  • This escape room experience was created by Kathryn Ennist, Teen Librarian at the Hillsdale Free Public Library in Hillsdale, NJ.