Enjoy from home!

Entertainment: Movies, Music & more

eBooks and eAudiobooks

Language Learning

Tutor.com

News & Current Events

Lynda.com Tutorials

Learning Express

Kids InfoBits

What to Read Next

Top Teen Reads of 2019

Digital puzzles, escape rooms, I SPY, learning games, and arts and crafts videos (original creations by Manatee Libraries staff!)

Manatee Libraries’ Historic Digital Collections

805 Lit + Art Journal

The Old Manatee tour on the Florida Stories app

ALL library digital services are listed here: Library Digital Resources

Free eBooks and online books

• Open Library
• Internet Archive
• Free classics for Kindle
• Hathi Trust
• Project Gutenberg
• Free eBooks from NY Public Library
• TeenBookCloud (Username: tumble2020 
  Password: A3b5c6) 
• AudioBookCloud (Username: tumble2020  Password: A3b5c6) 
  

Free online learning

• Khan Academy
• Newseum Digital Classroom
• Tech-Talk
• 450 free Ivy League online courses
• GCFLearnFree.org (from Goodwill)
  

 
Museums, History, Archives, Arts & Culture

• 7 beautiful botanic garden tours
• Amazing Libraries virtual tours
  
• The Ringling Museum Learn from Home
• Museum virtual tours
• Smithsonian virtual tours
• Salvador Dali Museum virtual tour
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art virtual tour
• The Louvre (Paris) virtual tours
• Digital Public Library of America
• Google Arts & Culture (digital exhibits and art collections from around the world)
• The British Museum interactive Museum of the World
• National Museum of African American History virtual tour
• Florida Humanities documentaries
• Manatee Village Historical Park digital jigsaw puzzles
• Open Culture
  

Free streaming music and live online concerts

• The Metropolitan Opera of NYC (free live streams)
• Jazz.org (free streaming concerts from around the world)
• Austin City Limits
  

Digital jigsaw puzzles

Be outdoorsy (from the great indoors)

• Virtual tours of U.S. National Parks
• Virtual farm tours from American Dairy Association
• Animal and ocean live webcams from Explore.org
• San Diego Zoo live cams
• Buffalo Gardens virtual tour
• Vizcaya Museum & Gardens virtual tour
• Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari
• Smithsonian National Zoo webcams
• The National Aquarium webcams

Keep movin' (in place)!

• Free YMCA exercise videos
• Fitness videos on Hoopla (requires library card)
• Daily workouts from GT Bray Park (Facebook)
• FREE Active Living Every Day workshop (seniors)
  

See many more recommendations for information and entertainment here: https://www.mymanatee.org/departments/manatee_county_public_library_system/research___learning/recommended_websites

**Manatee County disclaims any warranty as to the quality or accuracy of electronic information via external sites on the Internet.  Proceed with all activities and exercises at your own risk.**

Online learning

• Time for Kids free digital library (free sign-up required)
• The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Facebook Live videos
• Starfall (pre-K to Gr 3)
• PBS Kids (pre-K and elementary)
• Scholastic Learn at Home
• Math Playground (Gr 1-6)
• Funbrain Jr. (K- Gr 8)
• PBS LearningMedia (K-12)
• WEDU At-Home Learning (pre-K - 12)
  
• Free Life Skills curriculum   (middle and high school)
• Khan Academy
• Newseum Digital Classroom
• TumbleMath (K-6 math eBooks, username: tumble2020  password: A3b5c6)
• TEDEd educational videos (pre-K - Gr 12)

Virtual storytimes and reading

• Forty Carrots Summer Virtual Groups (held on Zoom, for infant to age 5)
• Suncoast Summer Reading Challenge (registration required, pre-K to Gr 3)
• Preschool storytime and craft videos (from Manatee Libraries)
  
• Goodnight with Dolly
  
• Story Time from Space
• Storyline Online (children’s books read by celebrities, YouTube)
• @SAVEWITHSTORIES (children’s books read by celebrities, Instagram)
• Storynory
• Stories Podcast
• The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read Alouds
• Audible Stories (free audiobooks for kids from Amazon)
• Read Together, Be Together
• Hear stories from Manatee Libraries' Youth Librarians on Our YouTube Channel

Online activities

• I SPY Look & Find (created by Manatee Libraries)
• Digital Escape Rooms (created by Manatee Libraries)
• Sesame Street Caring for Each Other (includes links to free Sesame Street eBooks)
  
• Disney's Imagineering in a Box
• Puppet shows
• Virtual farm tours from American Dairy Association
• Kennedy Space Center Facebook Live videos
• Virtual Marine Biology Camp
• The Ringling Museum Learn from Home
• Kaplan STEM, Arts & Crafts, and Outdoor Activity Ideas
• Children's Book Week coloring pages
• Kids Environment Kids Health
  

**Manatee County disclaims any warranty as to the quality or accuracy of electronic information via external sites on the Internet.  Proceed with all activities and exercises at your own risk.**

• During the school shutdown, free for 60 days to households with K-12 and/or college students who don’t already have internet through the company: call Spectrum 1-844-488-8398 

• All of Comcast Xfinity's Wi-Fi hotspots will be free and available to non-Xfinity users. Anyone can look for "xfinitywifi" as the network to connect with. 

• New Internet Essentials (from Comcast) customers who qualify as low-income will receive two free months of Internet service. Apply by December 31, 2020. https://www.internetessentials.com/covid1

• All library locations have limited PCs available for use and WiFi. Visits limited to 30 minutes.

For library-related questions, please call 941-748-5555, text 941-234-0394 , or email library@mymanatee.org

For a wealth of information related to COVID-19 at the County and state level see this page: mymanatee.org/coronavirus

If the above page does not answer your questions, contact Manatee 311 

Businesses and working individuals who need assistance: see the Recover Manatee page

Active food pantries and MEGA pantry dates in Manatee County