Have the Quarantine Blues? Check Out these Library Resources
| by Brenda Ellis
Are you stuck in your dorm room? Going stir crazy? Fear not! The library will come to the rescue! We have films and music to stream, popular e-books and audio books to read, online newspapers for catching up on world news or news from back home, and more!
Want to watch movies? We have hundreds of titles to stream from Kanopy. From popular world cinema to ground-breaking documentaries. Movie collections include independent, world, and popular cinema; drama; comedy; science fiction & fantasy; LGBTQ cinema; horror & thriller; and much more.
Read some good fiction or listen to popular audiobooks from Overdrive - you can download to your phone to listen while you stare out your window into the void.
Brush up on your Beethoven or Andrew Lloyd Webber and listen to classical music and opera with Naxos Music Library.
Want to read digital editions of newspapers and magazines from around the world and in a variety of languages? Try PressReader. It includes full page scans of publications, including state and local U.S. newspapers and magazines. Browse by country or language or search across all publications.
Brush up on College history. First, follow Special Collections & Archives on Instagram. Then, browse 1,000s of historic photos.
You won’t believe what Old Chapel used to look like.
Football protective gear, in 1901? Yeah, safety wasn’t really a thing.
And, wait, are those MiddKids, marching down Main Street, protesting police brutality? Half-a-century ago? Yup.
All these resources are brought to you by the library. We are here to help, so reach out to us at go/askus if you need help accessing our resources or have questions about doing research.