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Enjoying Library Resources at your Leisure

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Last year, Rachel put together this great flyer for spring break featuring library databases that you might use to fill your leisure time. There's the NC Live's Home Grown eBook Collection filled with popular novels and award-winning short fiction and poetry as well as the Mango Languages service. Language-teaching services are generally expensive, so this is a wonderful resource available to you through the library website. And, finally, there's Kanopy . Never heard of it? Well, listen up! This streaming service is absolutely chock full of entertaining and educational films for your viewing pleasure. It has over 30,000 documentaries, classics, and indie films (the Criterion Collection!). It also now contains the entire series of the Great Courses. The Great Courses is a series of college-level audio and video courses produced and distributed by The Teaching Company, an American company based in Chantilly, Virginia. The courses are divided into digestible indiv