LPL is always open online. Here’s what our digital branch has to offer:
- Apply for a temporary library card HERE (Lancaster County Residents Only)
- Check out an eBook or eAudiobook from Overdrive.
- The Libby app from OverDrive is a convenient, fast, and easy to use way to access thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks.
- Conduct research using one of our many databases.
- Have questions as you go? Contact us for help.
- Get to know TumbleBooks – a collection of animated, talking picture books; audiobooks; and games and puzzles.
- Search for grants from home when you access the Foundation Directory Online.
- Explore ALL that the Duke Street Business Center has to offer!
- Stream movies, TV shows, music, and audiobooks with hoopla.
- Don’t miss hoopla’s Bonus Borrows Collection!
In addition, we have created a list of activities you can do to stay healthy and happy while our buildings are closed. Be sure to bookmark this page, as we are constantly adding to the list!
Things for adults to do while practicing social distancing:
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Art courses from MoMA.
- Ask the LPL Experts
- Coloring isn’t just for kids – especially when you can color the Lancaster Public Library!
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Contribute to the National Archive as a Citizen Archivist.
- Discover Zooniverse – a citizen science web portal.
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Exercise your brain with a few free crosswords every week.
- Free Coronavirus reporting is available from The New York Times.
- Go back to school with more than 50 online courses from Penn State Extension
- Harry Potter at Home. Need we say more?
- Listen to classical music
- Marvel at the natural beauty of five national parks without leaving your couch
- Speaking of national parks, check out the most visited parks since 1980!
- Meditate and find a way to work with anxious thoughts.
- Paint with our very own Stew!
- Take a virtual tour of some of the world’s most beautiful libraries.
- Tune in to the relaxing sounds of America’s national parks.
- Unbook Club Recap
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Visit a museum, national park, or zoo without leaving your house:
- Alaska’s Katmai National Park
- British Library
- Channel Islands National Park
- Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
- Louvre Museum
- Smithsonian
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Van Gogh Museum
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Visit Harper at Home.
Things for kids to do while practicing social distancing:
Preschool
- A coloring page close to our heart!
- Daily activities and tips from PBS Kids.
- Distance Learning Resources from ABDO.
- Plus! Free eBooks through June 2020
- Goodnight with Dolly, as in Dolly Parton.
- Highlights provides families with Fun with a Purpose.
- Home learning for preschoolers from DK Books.
- Read, Dream, and Share with these coloring pages.
- STEM Activity Pages
- 45 easy STEM activities for kids from Look We’re Learning
- 50+ STEM activities for kids from The STEM Laboratory
- Easy STEM challenges for kids from Little Bins for Little Hands
- Wonderbook Weekends from Playaway will bring story time home.
School-age
- A coloring page close to our heart!
- At-Home Resources from our friends at the Lancaster Science Factory
- Children have fun while they learn at Starfall.
- Coreena asks, Did You Know?
- Distance Learning Resources from ABDO.
- Plus! Free eBooks through June 2020
- Enjoy Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems.
- Find amazing facts at National Geographic Kids.
- Harry Potter at Home. Need we say more?
- Highlights provides families with Fun with a Purpose.
- Home learning for kids from DK Books.
- In the Middle Books from Simon & Schuster Publishing
- Learn at home with Scholastic.
- Read, Dream, and Share with these coloring pages.
- Read out Loud with KidLit TV.
- STEM Activity Pages
- 45 easy STEM activities for kids from Look We’re Learning
- 50+ STEM activities for kids from The STEM Laboratory
- Easy STEM challenges for kids from Little Bins for Little Hands
- Teach and Learn with The New York Times.
- Time for Kids provides authentic journalism to motivate curious minds.
- Wonderbook Weekends from Playaway will bring story time home.
Tweens & Teens
- Coloring isn’t just for kids – especially when you can color the Lancaster Public Library!
- Draw Every Day with Jarett J. Krosoczka.
- GRAB THE MIC and Tell Your Story with Jason Reynolds.
- Harry Potter at Home. Need we say more?
- Have a Virtual Hangout with Digital Girl, Inc.
- Join Vidcodes’ Virtual Coding Club.
- Junior Library Guild @ Home – includes free access to the JLG online digital reading platform.
- Learn at home with Scholastic.
- Read, Wonder, and Learn – a library of resources compiled by author Kate Messner.
- Resources from Random House Children’s Books
- STEM Activity Pages
- 45 easy STEM activities for kids from Look We’re Learning
- 50+ STEM activities for kids from The STEM Laboratory
- Easy STEM challenges for kids from Little Bins for Little Hands
- Take a virtual field trip.
- Teach and Learn with The New York Times.
- Tools for distance learning from World Book.
- Writing Tips from Kate DiCamilllo.