{"id":2791,"date":"2020-05-07T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T23:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:24:28","slug":"check-these-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/2020\/05\/07\/check-these-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Check these out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Vancouver Public Library<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even though the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpl.ca\/\">Vancouver Public Library<\/a> is closed during this time, there are many activities and resources\u00a0 available online. If you live in Vancouver and need a library card, the VPL is issuing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpl.ca\/librarycard\">temporary cards online that will give access to the Digital Library.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the various <a href=\"https:\/\/vpl.bibliocommons.com\/events\/search\/index\">events at the VPL<\/a> (use the categories on the left hand side of the page to filter your results) for online activities.<\/p>\n<p>Do you need some reading materials (e-books)? Homework help? Would you like to submit a piece of writing or artwork for the third volume of the teen journal Ink? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpl.ca\/teens\">Explore the Teen pages.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Other suggestions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Children&#8217;s Book Center, with funding from the Canadian Arts Council, has created an amazing youtube channel called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCoRQbrmtvSYMRm1emqkhP8Q\">Bibliovideo<\/a>. which contains videos of book trailers, author interviews, book readings and videos for educators. Check it out for sure!<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>; a digital library of over 60,000 free e-books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arts &amp; Culture<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualmuseum.ca\/virtual-exhibits\/type\/virtual-exhibits\/\">Virtual Museum of Canada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/\">Google Arts &amp; Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/museum-at-home\/\">The Canadian Museum of History<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/moa.ubc.ca\/2020\/04\/moafromhome-stay-connected-online\/\">The Museum of Anthropology at UBC, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mcn.edu\/a-guide-to-virtual-museum-resources\/\">The Museum Computer Network<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10.com\/virtual-museum-tours\">Top 10 Virtual Museum Tours<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital resources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educationlibrarybooklists\/2020\/03\/18\/open-access-electronic-resources\/\">Electronic Resources from The UBC Education Library,<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Public Library Even though the Vancouver Public Library is closed during this time, there are many activities and resources\u00a0 available online. If you live in Vancouver and need a library card, the VPL is issuing temporary cards online that will give access to the Digital Library. Check out the various events at the VPL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}