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Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.

Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.

Whether you’re an absolute beginner or already confident in your artistic skills, we have something here for you. Our amazing array of digital resources includes a wide selection of free courses, a comprehensive choice of magazines and books and, for the student of art and art history, an in-depth and authoritative range of reference resources.

Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.

If you are interested in learning or improving a language (including English), our colleague Simon from Inchicore Library recently reviewed three of our excellent online resources. There are also a variety of other aids to language learning which you might not expect to find in our suite of online resources and which Simon outlines for you here.

The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB), a project of the Royal Irish Academy, outlines the lives at home and overseas of prominent individuals born in Ireland, north and south, and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside Ireland.

With school now in full swing, growing houseplants from kitchen scraps makes a fun science project to enjoy with your kids or grandkids.

To use a library resource, and to use it from home, you may need your library card and password.

World Book Online is an engaging and trustworthy resource which offers an immersive learning experience to learners at every level. It provides access to over 30,000 articles, 6,000 web links, 400 interactive maps and much, much more.

Dublin Climate Action Week takes place from the 13th to the 19th of September. Dublin City Council curated a list of podcasts and books to help you understand and engage with this important challenge.