Happy Tuesday! This week we have several exciting opportunities to share, along with a reminder of this month’s Flipped Classroom training (Getting Started) and a list of all the new titles that were added to the shared collections last month.
New Member Webinar on Wednesday, September 28th
Whether you are a new member of the WSDLC or a returning member that would like a refresher, everyone is invited to join OverDrive Account Manager Lena Richardson in a New Member Webinar on September 28th at 3:30pm! Lena will cover the ins and outs of OverDrive Marketplace and Sora and show attendees how to make the most of an Advantage Account, touching on custom curation, curricular use, new tools, and more!
Flipped Classroom: Getting Started
The WSDLC offers a self-paced training series to help new members get oriented (and as a refresher for returning members) with their membership and the Sora collections. Every month, a different topic and set of materials are highlighted to help guide members throughout the school year. The content of these Flipped Classrooms is intended for Library Media Specialists and anyone else that may help to manage school/district library resources, OverDrive Advantage purchasing, and digital classroom materials. Materials are available for members to review independently, and OverDrive staff are ready to schedule one-on-one 20-minute sessions to answer members’ questions. This month’s theme is Getting Started!
How can students checkout titles in Sora? Can I listen to an audiobook offline? How can I find a book in OverDrive Marketplace to purchase for my school’s Advantage account? What are each of the different lending models? You can find answers to these questions and more in this month’s Flipped Classroom: Getting Started.
Click the link or copy and paste it into your browser to get started with Getting Started: https://wsdlc.org/getting-started-with-flipped-classrooms/
You can find more information on WSDLC Training opportunities and materials here: https://wsdlc.org/training/
Find the full calendar of self-paced training topics here: https://wsdlc.org/training/wsdlc-training-schedule/
New Titles Added in August (Plus a Bonus Title List of all New Comics Added Yesterday)
In August, 66 completely new titles were added to the shared collection! Of these 66 titles, 34 were added to the Juvenile Collection, 13 to the Young Adult Collection, and 19 to the Adult Collection.
Additionally, yesterday (Monday, September 12th), OverDrive added 140 more comics and graphic novels to the All Access Comics collection! And don’t forget: the titles available in the All Access Comics collection are all Simultaneous Use, which means that these titles will never see holds; multiple students across the state can be reading the same copy at the same time!
A complete list of all the new titles added in August 2022 and the titles added to the All Comics Collection, along with their format and content access level(s), can be downloaded here.
Read an Ebook Day is September 18th!
This coming Sunday, September 18th, is Read an Ebook Day! Read an Ebook Day is a chance for readers across the globe to slow down, take a moment wherever they are, and, well, read an ebook. And for over 318,900 Wisconsin students with access to Sora, there are thousands of ebook (and read-along and audiobook) titles to choose from! From comics to romance novels, Pete the Cat to Percy Jackson, horror novels to collections of short stories, there is sure to be something to interest everyone.
And to help celebrate (and market) Read an Ebook Day, the OverDrive Resource Center has a ready-to-use graphic that schools can download and utilize to spread the word! You can find that graphic and many other marketing resources here.
Not to Miss: OverDrive and School Library Journal Webinar Ask a Librarian: Key Reading Trends for Back to School 2022!
Join the WSDLC’s OverDrive Digital Content Librarian Beth Saxton as she and three of her colleagues host a webinar: Ask a Librarian: Key Reading Trends for Back to School 2022!
Find more information and register to attend here.
This webinar will be recorded, with a link to the recording sent to all registrants.
Send Us Your Tiny Case Study Ideas!
WSDLC’s Tiny Case Studies are brief, practical summaries of outstanding things that some WSDLC members are doing that involve Sora and serve as an opportunity for members to share a WSDLC-related problem they had and how they solved it. We highlight these Tiny Case Studies during various Flipped Classroom months, but you can also view them all by clicking the following link or copy/pasting it into your browser: https://wsdlc.org/training/tiny-case-studies/.
If you’ve done something lately that you’d like to share with the WSDLC Community, let us know! Maybe you’ve put together some creative marketing, started a student reading book club, engaged your school’s teachers on how they can utilize these resources in their classroom, or made a successful case for funding. No idea or accomplishment is too small!
You can submit your tiny case study idea by email at wsdlc-info@wils.org or complete the idea form, and we will reach out to you with the next steps!
The WSDLC project managers and the team at OverDrive are always available if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
Not sure who to contact? Check out this handy guide on the WSDLC website: https://wsdlc.org/who-to-contact-with-questions/.
