The West Fargo Public Library remains closed to the public at this time.

Library leadership is working closely with fellow City of West Fargo departments to devise plans for library services. More information on any library services can be found at http://www.westfargolibrary.org.

Curbside pickup started May 11. The West Fargo Library now offers no-contact curbside material pickup. Patrons will be able to pick up held items including books, audiobooks, DVDs and music CDs.

The online Summer Reading Program launches June 1. The Summer Reading Program runs from June 1 to July 31. This program allows readers of all ages to participate.

Library staff are also available by appointment to assist patrons with job search or unemployment questions or those who need assistance filling out the 2020 census.

Other programs:

10:30 a.m., Mondays: Wiggle Worms Baby Storytime with Ms. Brittany

Wiggle Worms Baby Storytime is an activity for infants through two-year-old children and their parents. Each session features multiple book readings, songs, rhymes and a sensory activity. Each video is added to the WFPL YouTube page.

10:30 a.m., Wednesdays: Preschool Explorer Storytime with Ms. Brittany

Preschool Explorers Storytime targets children aged 3 5 and features multiple books, songs and activities. Each video is added to the WFPL YouTube page after airing.

11 a.m., Wednesdays: Childrens Craft with Ms. Brittany: Each Wednesday, following Preschool Explorers Storytime, Ms. Brittany will share a craft related to her storytime that children can do at home.

West Fargo Public Librarys Online Book Club is a program for adults aimed to keep readers engaged with other book lovers. Interested patrons can join the Facebook group. The group reads one book per month. Discussion questions are posted weekly. The May novel will be "The Sacrament" by Olaf Olafsson.

E-cards: E-cards allow those who do not have a library card to gain access to digital books and media, research databases, online learning opportunities and more.

For questions, email West Fargo Public Library staff at askus@westfargolibrary.org or via Facebook.

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Washington Nationals read children's books online as part of a program with Prince Georges County Memorial Library System.

You can now have World Championship baseball players read to your children on demand.

The Washington Nationals have teamed with the Prince Georges County Memorial Library System to post a series of online videos where players, such as World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg, read childrens stories to young Prince Georgians or anyone with an internet connection.

The Imagine Your Story partnership between the two organizations is part of the PGCMLS virtual Summer @ Your Library program.

One video shows Strasburg reading Adam Wallaces How to Catch a Dinosaur.

Another video features two-time All-Star Ryan Zimmerman reading Theres No Place Like Space: All About the Solar System from the Dr. Seuss Learning Library Series.

Both videos, along with other ones featuring the reading skills of teammate Will Harris and reading activities showcasing the Nats Sean Doolittle and Anbal Snchez can be found on the teams website.

Anyone in the county can participate in the library systems Summer @ Your Library program, which challenges people to read 30 minutes a day, among other activities.

The program ends Aug. 21.

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With Disney parks and theaters around the world closed for the moment, now's the perfect time to start growing your digital movie library. Right now, some of Disney's best animated movies are 50% off at digital retailers like iTunes and Vudu so you can add to your collection at a discount. Iconic films like Aladdin and Cinderella regularly sell for up to $19.99, though right now they're on sale along with several other Disney greats for just $9.99 each.

Most of the films on sale at iTunes can be found here. If you're not accustomed to using iTunes, you should know that any movies or shows you buy there can be viewed using the Apple TV app, and the app is available on more than just Apple devices. You can download it on streaming devices and some smart TVs for instance.

Any Disney fanatic should take this opportunity to add some of these films to their collection if they're not there already, as we rarely see Disney films on sale for this price. While other films may drop as low as $5 occasionally, that never happens for Disney films like these. On the sale page, you'll find movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, and Moana.

Over at Vudu, you can find The Little Mermaid and Sleeping Beauty discounted by 50% as well. Even more family-friendly films are on sale for $9.99 right now, including live-action Disney movies like The Jungle Book and Maleficent.

Memorial Day is less than a week away! It's time to start taking note of all the sales and deals that will be going live in a few days, and luckily for you we've compiled the best Memorial Day deals to help speed your research up a bit. Many offers are even live right now.

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Google is rethinking what headphone controls look and how you interact with them in a new project involving capacitive fibers. Aside from just headphones, Google is also adding this tech to things like speaker cords and hoodie drawstrings.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave us a few choice quotes about the status of the company's hardware division, including Pixels and unfortunately it didn't fill me with confidence.

We're rounding up the best games, free and premium, you should be playing today.

If you're looking for some games to either play with the family or trust your kids to play on their own, you've come to the right place! Check out these awesome titles!

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THE CHATHAMS During the COVID-19 shutdown, the Library of the Chathams at 214 Main St. is offering a variety of online services for children, teens and adults, Library Director Karen Brodsky said.

By visiting the librarys website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org, one can obtain digital resources including e-books, films, audio, and magazines, Brodsky noted. Weekly online classes, book groups, story hours and other informational programs can also be found on the librarys webpage.

Brodsky advised that residents of the Chathams who do not have a library card may obtain one by emailing mycard@chathamlibrary.org. Please join us as we social distance together, Brodsky invited.

Container Gardening: Master Gardener Marta McDowell will present Container Gardening for Vegetables and More in a livestream lecture at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, May 21; for information, visit the librarys website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org.

Do you have limited space but want to grow some vegetables, herbs or flowers this year? Container gardening may be your answer, said Deborah Fitzgerald, head of Adult Services at the library.

In this live presentation with a question-and-answer session, Fitzgerald said, we will discuss which containers work best, what soil should one use, where you should put your containers, which varieties of plants work best, how to take care of your containers, and how to harvest and store your crops.

Marta McDowell lives, writes and gardens in Chatham. She teaches at the New York Botanical Garden and is one of the founders of the Chatham Community Garden. She became a master gardener in 2009.

Preventing Back Pain: Ricardo Costa, owner of Results Physical Therapy in Chatham Township, will talk about preventing back pain while working from home in a livestream lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 27; for information, visit the librarys website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org.

Costa earned a doctoral degree in physical therapy in 2006 from Seton Hall University, South Orange. Since that time he has been treating patients in Morris and Union counties. Costa also serves as an Seton Hall University.

Said Fitzgerald, Ricardo prides himself on considering each of his patients individual needs to tailor their treatment. He is here to help you get back to the things you enjoy doing.

For information, visit the Library of the Chathams website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org.

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DeKALB The DeKalb Public Library will offer free virtual events through Zoom meetings and Facebook Live.

Virtual Medicare 101 will be offered 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 25. Licensed Medicare sales representative Carol Cherry will discuss Medicare insurance plans. Please register for this event at dkpl.org. Once you register you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the Zoom meeting, a phone number to call into the Zoom meeting and a password to the meeting. Join the Zoom meeting 5 minutes prior to the program, especially if you havent used Zoom before, as this session is limited to the first 10 people.

Virtual Stories at Home will be held on Facebook Live from 10 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 26, and Thursday, May 27. The live story time will feature books being read and songs. To watch the programs, join the DKPL Stories at Home Facebook group.

Wonder Woman will lead a virtual superhero story time on Facebook Live from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 27. The story time will feature singing, engaging storytelling, and the characters will respond to your childs comments by name. To watch story time, join the DeKalb Library + Princess Story Time Event Series Facebook group. All attending families are automatically entered to win a 10-minute Parties with Character diamond package video call with the story time character directly after the event. Superhero and Princess Story Times are presented by Parties with Character.

The library will host a virtual anime and manga club for adults from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 28 via Zoom. During the meeting, the group will play Japanese Salesman, a game where you have to sell odd Japanese products without knowing what they are, and watch Arte. Register online for the event at http://www.dkpl.org.com. Once you register you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the Zoom meeting, a phone number to call into the Zoom meeting and a password to the meeting. Join the Zoom meeting 5 minutes prior to the program, especially if you havent used Zoom before, as this session is limited to the first 10 people. This program is intended for adults.

For additional information about the librarys upcoming virtual events, contact Samantha at samanthah@dkpl.org.

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Inverness public library.

High Life Highland (HLH) libraries have been given top marks as people turn to the charitys online resources during lockdown.

While library buildings are closed people can still access a rage of materials and activities online including Bookbug sessions, e-books, audio books and newspapers.

Bookbug is a national programme for sharing stories, songs and rhymes for young people, with the number of views of sessions rising to 6500 last month from just under 2000 in March.

Pressreader, the online newspaper service, has more than doubled the number of views in April in comparison with the same month last year an increase of 30,000 views.

The number of uses of e-books through the HLH library service has also doubled compared to last year.

One parent, Davina Seaton, said: As you can imagine this has been a very difficult time trying to provide home school and nursery for a three-year-old and a five-year-old who are at different stages of learning.

"The Bookbug sessions online help to bridge that gap for a short time and provide relief and enjoyment for all of us in our household, as we try to watch them as a family.

"Both my children benefit as they are learning whilst having fun and the burden of teaching is lifted from myself. Thank you for helping to bring these vital services to the Highlands during this difficult, stressful and often scary time.

Julie Corcoran, principal libraries manager for High Life Highland, said: It's great to hear that so many people are using and benefitting from our online library services at the moment.

"By using online channels, weve been able to keep many of our services available for people in Highland communities during this unprecedented period. Well keep adapting the range of resources available, as new options become available.

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The lockdown has left students with too much time on their hands and not enough useful things to spend it on. And you can't blame them for idling their free time watching web series and gaming when they are cooped up at home all day long. However, the good news is that since you cannot limit screen time for your kids now, you could direct them to a host of free online libraries where they could do their research for their school projects and catch up on their fiction lists in their free time as well.

Here is a list of free online libraries that may be explored during this time.

Project Gutenberg

This online resource is one of the most widely know, with hundreds of students around the world using it. Started way back in 1971 by an American author Michael Hart, the site has hundreds of books that have been carefully digitised by volunteers. Some of the books go back to 1924 and is an excellent resource of pre and post-world-war literature. There are over 62000 full texts of public domain books in categories like literature, history, sciences, art, fiction, medicine and more.

Go to: https://www.gutenberg.org/

Bibliomania

Bibliomania is an excellent resource for anyone who is of a literary bent of mind. The e-library has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays. It also has study guides, reference books and study guides. The site has books by authors like Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Anton Chekov, Edgar Allan Poe and many more to whet your interest. Interact with the booklovers' community on the site to discuss books, post opinions and ask for recommendations.

Go to: http://www.bibliomania.com/

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is the mother of all digital libraries; the non-profit offers free access to researchers, historians, scholars and the general public. The website contains more than 20 million books and texts as well as millions of web pages, audio recordings, videos and images. Over 1,000 books per day are scanned in 28 locations around the world. The site is funded by donations and grants from many organisations and private persons. So the next time you need some special resources for school or college work, this is the best place to go to. Also, rifling through the many texts, audio and video resources will keep your lockdown hours occupied.

Go to: https://archive.org/

Open Library

TheOpen Library is a part of the Internet Archive and is a wonderful resource for modern titles. It has one of the best collection of fiction for all ages and plenty of modern titles by authors like Stephen King, JK Rowling, Agatha Christie and more. This is a lending library where you can borrow a book for the duration of a fortnight. You may also have to wait a bit if your book is out in circulation. A great resource to avoid lockdown-induced boredom.

Go to: https://openlibrary.org

The Online Books Page

During the lockdown, many renowned universities across the world have opened up their online libraries. You can go to these university sites and check out if you can get access to their library resources. One such highly-regarded online library is that of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. The University's Online Books Page has more than 2 million works for you to browse through. These books are in various reader-friendly formats and free for personal and non-commercial use.

Go to: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu

PDF BOOKS WORLD

This website has PDF books galore and all nicely formatted so that you do not have to ruin your eyes while reading them! There is a wide variety of genres, so that there is something for everyone. From fiction, non-fiction, academic texts and papers, children's resources, the excellent collection will get you hooked! The best part is that these books are optimised for personal computers and handheld devices like tablets and mobiles. They are in legible font sizes, with illustrations and reference links.

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Huge increases in digital database usage show residents have been getting reacquainted with the Pima County Public Library during the coronavirus pandemic.

Holly Schaffer, the community relations manager for the county's library system, said the library's online databases has seen dramatic increases during shutdowns, with much of the growth in newer services.

The most significant increase was a 6,433 percent jump in usage for the IndieFlix database in March compared to the same period in 2019. IndieFlix gives users access to independent films, documentaries and classic movies and TV through streaming.

There have also been increases in British content database Acorn, which jumped 334 percent in April when compared to the same time in 2019.

Qello a concert, music and music documentary database had a 251 percent increase in March compared to 2019.

Kanopy an international and independent film, documentary and educational database increased 181 percent in April compared to 2019.

RomanceBookCloud increased 600 percent in March compared to 2019.

Teen Book Cloud increased 245 percent from February to March.

"They are incredibly impressive for some of our digital resources and entertainment," Schaffer said.

Schaffer doesn't anticipate a substantial drop-off as people begin to venture out again.

"Keeping people in the loop via email and advertising, these are all things that we do, and I think that keeps the momentum going," she said. "Now that people have done it and know how easy it is, they'll want to recommend it to a friend and tell other people about it."

She said the library revamped the website to feature all the digital content available to cardholders during the shutdown.

"That's been something, I think, that people have been seeing and maybe we'll consider doing that more even when the stay-at-home order is lifted," she said.

More traditional online databases for books had increased usage as well.

Shaffer attributed the smaller increases in the online book databases to already being well known and having an established base of users.

"I don't think people realized you could watch live concerts or British TV or listen to music, get magazines and comic books," she said. "I think maybe the assumption is, 'Oh, I can get an e-book or audiobook, but that's not really for me.' But you have a music lover who discovers Freegal (music), and they're going to come back and see what else we have."

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PIERCE COUNTY, Washington The Pierce County Library System Board of Trustees will discuss how the Library System is serving communities while the library buildings are closed to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic 2019 (COVID-19) and in compliance with Gov. Jay Inslees Stay Home, Stay Healthy Order. Also, at the meeting the Board will talk about plans to reopen library buildings to the public in the coming months. Join the meetingvia conference call, 1-510-338-9438, access code: 623 788 004 #, attendee ID: #, on Wednesday, May 13, at 3:30 p.m.

At the May meeting, the Board of Trustees will conduct the following business.

Library services during the pandemic:While the Pierce County Librarys buildings are closed, the Library System is enthusiastically and actively delivering library servicesonlineand in the community. People can get and start using alibrary cardimmediately and gain access to all online library services. Online services includee-books, audiobooks, and magazinesande-sources resourcesto help with personal and professional goals, Ancestry Library, Tumblebook Library featuring animated, talking picture books, and tools for students while studying at home with real-time, online tutors.

Pierce County residents are eagerly accessing these high-valued services:

Planning for opening library buildings:Staff is preparing to reopen libraries in alignment with Governor Inslees Safe Start Washington plan to safely reopen businesses and other activities. Libraries are included in Phase 3 of the reopening plan. As many public health and government leaders are planning, the Library is also preparing to phase in the offering of services with a turning of a dial, and not flipping a switch.The Board will discussplans for staff to return to the buildings and prepare to provide service in library buildings.The Library is committed to safe and welcoming libraries for the publics use and a safe work place for staff.

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Neighbors please be mindful of social distancing guidelines while you do your part to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. See the latest guidance from the CDC here.

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Proper pruning is essential for the healthy development of your valued trees and shrubs! Join the Scotch Plains Public Library staff via Zoom on Monday, May 18 at 7pm, when licensed landscape architect Richard Miller will cover essential pruning techniques and show you how to avoid common errors.

Patrons are welcome to submit pruning questions ahead of time in the registration form; questions will also be taken after the presentation as time allows.

Richard is the current president of the Garden Club of Metuchen.

Registration is required for this online program. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link via email a day or two in advance.

For more information, go to http://www.scotlib.org/events or email library@scotlib.org.

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