[CASL-L] streaming audiobooks

Cerra, Lori SNIS Teacher - Library Media Specialist cerral at newmilfordps.org
Tue Oct 10 09:20:07 PDT 2023


Sora has a platform and you can purchase audiobooks several differ ways
including multi use. They also have several free books. I set it up for
that exact reason when I worked at the high school.

Hope this helps!

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 12:04 PM Rocca, Jen <Roccaj at brookfieldps.org> wrote:

> We've discussed this before but I think it has been a while.
>
> Our high school teachers sometimes play an audiobook in the classroom for
> students to hear.
>
> Is there a legal streaming solution for this? If I purchased a legal audio
> version of the book - other than purchasing it through Follett and
> accessing it through the catalog, I can't find a way for teachers to access
> it in their classrooms. It needs to be single user. We don't want multiple
> people all logging into one account - that is not ethically sound. Audible
> has no interest in partnering with schools. They told me that very directly
> the last time I tried to talk to them.
>
> Short of having books on CD and a boombox, I can't find a way to have
> audiobooks in the library for teachers to use in their classes.
>
> Any wisdom from the masses?
>
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