Staying home? Keep on exploring with Armacost Library!

Armacost Library wishes you and your family the best as you cope with rapidly changing developments related to the coronavirus outbreak, including updates from the University of Redlands and from Armacost Library.

It looks like we will all be spending more time at home in the weeks to come. There are many great resources for art, entertainment and learning in the Armacost Library collection and beyond that can help you find inspiration and take needed mental health breaks from planning and preparing. Here are some ideas:

• Check out Armacost Library's electronic collections. We have electronic books, streaming films and documentaries, and streaming classical music and jazz databases available 24/7 with your MyRedlands login. 
• Take a virtual tour of a place you've never visited before.  
• The MCN has compiled a list of museums and archives offering free online exhibits.
• Yosemite National Park has an amazing virtual tour. 
• Tap into the public domain.
• Project Gutenberg is a volunteer-run digital library of over 60,000 free ebooks in Kindle and PDF format.
• Librivox offers free public domain audiobooks read by an army of volunteers.
• The Internet Archive has a great list of things to do if you can't leave the house (including classic cinema, old-time radio and vintage computer games!)
• Enjoy an online concert. 
• The School of Music is streaming the senior recitals of our talented students to a virtual (rather than physical) audience (here's a list of upcoming events). 
• Armacost Library's medici.tv subscription brings you concerts, recitals and master classes from around the world. 
• Music librarians have compiled a list of upcoming live-streamed, free concerts around the world.    
• Learn something new. 
•  Southern California PBS stations are joining forces to offer at home learning for kids ages Pre-K to 12th grade. PBS also has a library of educational media aligned to curricular standards. 
• Armacost Library has many of the Great Courses videos as part of our Kanopy streaming video database. 
• The Smithsonian Museum has an online Learning Lab filled with open access resources (more on these in a future blog post!) 
• Step back in time. 
• The Digital Public Library of America offers many digitized special and archival collctions documenting American and local history.
• The Library of Congress offers many historical collections in its American Memory series.
• Your local library is online, too.
• If you're already a cardholder at your local public library, don't forget to check their audiobook collection. For example, Redlands' A.K. Smiley Public Library offers a database of ebooks and audiobooks through Overdrive.