Enjoying Library Resources at your Leisure


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 individual classes and cover quite the breadth of fascinating topics.

Some of their most popular courses include:

  • How to Look At and Understand Great Art
  • Critical Business Skills
  • How to Draw
  • Wonders of the National Parks


Here are a few others that you may be interested in:

  • Science of Mindfulness
  • Sustainable Living
  • The Addictive Brain
  • Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature
  • The Science of Integrative Medicine


This list could go on and on and on. There is so much exciting stuff to find and learn on Kanopy. Please contact me  (heather.propsom@lr.edu) if you need help accessing any of these resources!

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  1. Bussiness SaleApril 4, 2024 at 2:12 PM

    This is a fantastic reminder of all the great resources the library offers! The breakdown of Kanopy sounds amazing - especially with the inclusion of the Great Courses and topics like "Science of Mindfulness" and "Sustainable Living." Who knew the library could be a place to binge-learn during spring break? Thanks for mentioning the contact info for help accessing these resources - that's really helpful

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