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Free online fiction books

Announcing the National Emergency Library, a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed. As part of the initiative, the nonprofit online archive suspended the waitlists for its lending library, granting immediate access to titles. The program — set to run through June 30 or the end of the national COVID-19 crisis (“whichever is later”) — is open to both the casual reader and the academic.

Free online access to various comics, graphic novels, and drawing. Includes books in Spanish.

Free online, peer-reviewed open source textbooks on a variety of subject areas, including AP courses.

Collection of classics and older, obscure books in which the copyright has expired.

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Online database of books and resources, including graphic novels.

Believe in You® is an episodic series designed to educate students and staff about the incredible power of believing in yourself, despite the challenges and trials that life may present. Hosted by Kevin Atlas,and starring personalities from around the country who have overcome personal challenges to accomplish the extraordinary.

By subject area

Videos exploring a bunch of things that you always wanted to know.

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Online collection of current news articles, filterable by lexile levels and language. Sign on using your school Microsoft account information.

1,300 Free Online Courses
1000+ MOOCs
1,150 Free Movies
700 Free Audio Books
800 Free eBooks
200 Free Textbooks
300 Free Language Lessons
150 Free Business Courses
Free K-12 Education

Create an account with Recorded Books’ Universal Class for Libraries. Log in with your Randolph library card barcode and then set up an individual account. Once you have set up your individual account, you’ll have access to over 500 continuing education and personal development courses, both self-paced and instructor-led!

Home Safari Live on Facebook every day at 3 pm. Other resources to study and have fun with various animals.

Google Arts & Culture offers virtual tours of museum spaces, including the Guggenheim in New York, the British Museum in London and the Acropolis Museum in Athens, as well as views into their vast collections. Many other museums have their own tours and digitized galleries, including the Louvre, Vatican Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Watch pandas live!

Gorilla, giraffe, elephant, rhino, chimpanzee, cutter ants, and flamingos

Baboon, penguin, panda, polar bear, ape, koala, giraffe, butterfly, elephant, tiger, burrowing owl, condor

Tons of great webinars. Small fee for each, but well worth it!

Informal playing sessions by some of the big names in music like Harry Styles, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Jonas Brothers, and others.

Naked mole-rat, lion, panda, elephant

Invite your friends to your own private game online with video. Spades, Hearts, Bridge, Euchre, Oh Hell, Pitch, Whist, 500, Pinochle