Pandemic Distractions

• ColorOurCollections is an annual coloring festival on social media during which libraries, museums, archives and other cultural institutions around the world share free coloring content featuring images from their collections.
• Flickr: The Commons- Hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.
• Smithsonian Open Access: Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images— nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections, with many more to come.
• National Gallery of Art: Images- More than 51,000 open access digital images up to 4000 pixels each available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
• Art Institute of Chicago: Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection. Enhanced visual options allow you to zoom in to an amazing level of detail.
• Unsplash: Over one million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

• The Great Courses Library: Library patrons can now access The Great Courses on RBdigital! Ignite curiosity and invigorate passions with access to thousands of innovative and immersive learning experiences.
• CS Unplugged: Computer Science without a computer: Each Unplugged activity is available to download in PDF format, with full instructions, worksheets, background sections, and answers. The activities are primarily aimed at the five to twelve year-old age group, but they can be used to teach older children and adults too, with little modification.
• Scholastic Learn at Home: Free day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
• SmartHistory's free, award-winning digital content unlocks the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible and engaging.
• Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
• SciShow: The world is marvelous and weird, and SciShow is here to explain it. Whether it’s earthquakes in Italy, meteors in Russia, or why some people’s pee doesn’t smell like asparagus, SciShow explores the surprising and exciting realities of our universe.
• Crash Course: From courses like Astronomy to US History and Anatomy & Physiology it's got you covered with an awesome variety of AP high school curriculum topics. With various witty hosts at your service, you won't even notice you're getting smarter.
• AP Online Classes and Review Sessions: College Board has assembled the country's best AP teachers to conduct live and on-demand AP classes and review sessions to help students still be able to test and earn college credit in 2020.
• Repository of Distance Learning: With children and learners everywhere out of school for the forseeable future, museums across the continent have come together to share their distance learning with you.

• Zooniverse Projects: Join the Zooniverse, the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. More than a million people around the world volunteer their time to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise.
• Citizen Archivist: Contribute to the National Archives Catalog by tagging, transcribing and adding comments to our records, making them more accessible and searchable. Every contribution you make helps unlock history.
• Play Eyewire to map the 3D structure of neurons and contribute to revolutionary crowd-sourced scientific discovery from Seung Lab.
• Old Weather: Help scientists transcribe Arctic and worldwide weather observations recorded in ship's logs since the mid-19th century.
• Galaxy Zoo is an astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies.
• LibriVox is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts, creating free public domain audiobooks.
• Amara: Help create subtitles for videos so they will be accessible for all.
• Planet Hunters is a citizen science project to find exoplanets using human eyes.

Advanced Crowdsourcing

• Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by people like you from around the world, who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love.
• Wikipedia is more than just an online encyclopedia. It is a world-wide community of people who volunteer their time and share knowledge in order to make the world a better place and you are welcome to join.