Good Morning,

We also use and LOVE Sora/Overdrive in the WHPS middle schools. 

Another great company that I use primarily for non-fiction is ABDO! They have a lot of great content and the option to purchase mulit-user ebooks.  If you purchase a certain amount, you also get a print copy of each title ordered.  The purchased titles can be shared via Classroom and even downloaded as a PDF.  The rep that I work with is amazing and very personable.  His name is Monte Kuehl and his email is: mkuehl@abdobooks.com -- just tell him that I referred you and he will bend over backwards to help!!!


And last but not least, have you looked at Hoopla??  It's part of the public library and users need a library card to sign up.  But they have a lot of great titles for both ebooks and audiobooks that I am always trying to promote to my teachers because they can do book groups and class reads utilizing this free resource!!! 

Hope this helps!!
Melissa


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On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 9:21 AM <edunnack3492@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@woodstockschools.net
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