[CASL-L] E-books for classroom

[Kara Ingalls]

Hi Eileen! 

I love overdrive! We use it in Vernon at the high school. I purchase $2,000 of credit at the beginning of the school year, but it is easy to add more money to the account at any time. 

The audiobooks can be expensive but the ebooks are reasonable. They have pretty much had everything I’ve ever searched for to purchase. There is a limited amount of “class sets” right now, but you can buy as many copies of a book as you want. For example, I had multiple English classes reading the same book, so I was able to get a copy of the book for every student. Most books are labeled OC/OU which means it’s one copy/one user, so only one student can check it out at a time. 

Our kids log into Overdrive with their gmail accounts and then can easily search for books and click “borrow” to read or listen on their Chromebooks.

I’ve had nothing but a good experience with them the last 2 years! If you have any other questions about it, let me know! 

Kara Ingalls
Rockville High School
Library Media Specialist 
Vernon, CT
Kara.ingalls at vernonct.org  

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> On Apr 28, 2020, at 9:21 AM, edunnack3492 at charter.net wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> One of my principals reached out to me today to ask if I would research online collections for schools so teachers can assign specific books for lit circles, classroom reports etc. Right now, we scramble to get together books from various sources to make a class set. Our schools were way behind in technology, but with recent events have taken big steps to correct that. 
> 
> Overdrive seems to be mentioned quite frequently; I would be interested in any experience you have with them. Even though we have Alexandria library software, I purchase books from Follett. In looking through the books they offer, I'm not sure they have enough multi-use copies of titles the teachers would be interested in. 
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions here. Thanks!
> 
> Eileen Dunnack
> Woodstock Public Schools
> Woodstock, CT
> dunnacke at woodstockschools.net
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