Like all public places, your local library is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. But it holds an online treasure trove you can access if you have a library card: Movies for streaming. Audiobooks and online college courses. E-books.

You might actually emerge from seclusion a better-education person.

The users of the 77 libraries of the Bergen County Cooperative Library System, or BCCLS, who possess a library card can check out its main website to not only access ebooks and audio materials, but also to check out services for learning and entertainment.

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Individual libraries have even more offerings. At some, you can tap into HooplaDigital, a media streaming platform that allows downloads or streams of audiobooks, comics, e-books, movies, music and TV.

Patrons of libraries including Ridgewood, Dumont, Oakland and Wyckoff, Morristown and Morris Township can enjoy movies from Kanopy, a streaming service with thousands of classic, art house, foreign and indie films.

If you're not looking to binge-watch, but to feed your brain, there's Mango Languages, an online language learning resource with 70 languages available. (Some libraries offer free access to Rosetta Stone language training.)

There's also Lynda.com, which features video courses taught by industry experts covering software, creative, and business skills.

PALSPlus, a network of 21 libraries in Passaic, Essex and Hudson counties, offers HooplaDigital, plus Overdrive audiobooks and e-books; RBDigital Magazines and, because sometimes you need a superhero or superheroine, RBDigital Comics.

Most libraries in North Jersey are part of a consortium, so make sure to check not only the local library, but the consortium it belongs to.

Don't have a library card? Many public libraries will issue them online to residents. Library staffers are still available by phone or via chat in most towns.

Ricardo Kaulessar is a local reporter for NorthJersey.com. For unlimited access to the most important news from your local community, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.

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