Perfect for those long holiday weekends when you don’t want to drive, cook for the unappreciative, stand in line for overpriced Star Wars souvenirs and are hard put to find new, interesting rental movies that aren’t ‘guy’ films. 
Here’s a new Scout Report listing that might entice with the addition of a British Library site:
·http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html
Within the British Library’s Online Gallery exists a gem called Virtual Books. Here, readers will find a collection of great books that can be viewed online using the library’s own award-winning “Turning the Pages” software. A great place to start is by scoping out the six works displayed on the landing page, which include selections from the great Indian epic, The Ramayana, draft scores of Handel’s Messiah, a handful of Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches, and other masterpieces. From there, readers may like to explore the Most Viewed and Recent Additions sections. To explore items, simply click on a title. The book then takes a moment to load, but the Turning the Pages format lets you read, listen, rotate, zoom, and view the original writing next to modern, easily viewable font transliterations.
Teaching History with 100 Objects
http://www.teachinghistory100.org
As William Faulkner wrote in his experimental novel, Requiem for a Nun, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” This site makes compelling links to the present through an amazing array of historical artifacts. In addition to being one of our most shared resources from the past year, the Scout staff seemed to come back to the website again and again. Not just for history teachers, Teaching History with 100 Objects has a mesmerizing way of bringing to life tales from ancient Egypt, Qing Dynasty China, revolutionary Russia, and many other places and times.
Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/pickyourpoison/
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