Registration is Open to Attend the Annual WSDLC Membership Meeting!
Join the WSDLC Project Managers and the WSDLC OverDrive team for 2025’s annual membership meeting!
Date: Thursday, May 29th
Time: 3:45pm – 4:45pm
Registration Link: Please reach out to WSDLC Project Managers for the registration link at wsdlc-info@wils.org
This year, the WSDLC team at OverDrive will share some of their best practices for Advantage Accounts and showcasing how WSDLC members can utilize tools and features available to them, such as curation, title hide, and ordering quarterly Advantage Bundles. They will also discuss what Advantage ownership means, and how districts can manage their local digital collections with tools such as title assign and holds management.
The Project Managers will share the results of the recent WSDLC Governance elections and appointments; an overview of the themes that came out of the 2025 membership survey; a review on what happened in 2024; and a preview of things to come.
We hope to see you there! This meeting will be recorded and shared with membership the next day.
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Advantage Bundle Carts Can Still Be Ordered
Do you need a quick and easy way to spend some funds before the end of the school year? Consider adding funds into your school’s/district’s OverDrive Advantage Account- a never-expiring deposit account that lets you purchase copies of titles that would be available for only your students! And to make deciding what to purchase easier, check out the pre-packaged groups of popular titles below that can be purchased from right within a Google form.
In February 2025, the WSDLC’s dedicated OverDrive Digital Content Specialist, Beth, put together a series of bundles of titles for easier ordering by WSDLC members! Just complete the Google Form(s) for the bundle(s) you’d like to purchase for your students, and Beth will get those added to your Advantage collections and invoiced to you based on your preferences.
February’s Advantage Bundle Carts include:
- February 2025’s High-Demand Elementary Title Bundle
High-Demand Elementary – 27 titles for $502.17 - Youth Media Award Title Bundles
Newbury, Caldecott, Giesel, and Printz – 28 titles for $906.88
AAPL, Coretta Scott King, and Pura Belpre – 24 titles for $598.45 - Scholastic Metered Access Titles Bundles
Scholastic titles that are now being offered in MA:100 (100 checkouts, concurrent usage)!
Elementary – 29 titles for $498.92
Middle School – 21 titles for $406.08
High School – 21 titles for $437.58 - One Copy/One User Title Bundles
Enduring titles that stand the test of time, invest in them now and own them forever!
Elementary – 20 titles for $509.75
Middle School – 10 titles for $504.96
High School – 12 titles for $491.23 - Golden Archer Awards Title Bundles
Elementary – 13 titles for $308.68
Middle School – 10 titles for $330.60
High School -10 titles for $513.64
Please reach out to wsdlc-info@wils.org for the full title list(s) and/or order form(s).
Save yourself time and money, and help get those high-interest, high-hold titles into the hands of your students faster by ordering today!
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Sora Sweet Reads Has Begun!
OverDrive’s annual summer reading program, Sora Sweet Reads, is open and ready to go! The Sora Sweet Reads collection is filled with simultaneous use titles for all reading levels, and will be available to all WSDLC members through August 25th.
You can find out more about this program, and grab some already-made marketing materials, on the Sora Sweet Reads page.
You can see this curated collection and share it out with your students with this link: https://soraapp.com/library/wsdlcwi/campaign-sora-sweet-reads-11009/titles
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Reach More Readers Challenge 2025 is Happening Now!
The 4th Annual Reach More Readers Challenge began on Thursday, May 1st! All WSDLC member districts that began their membership before March 1st, 2025 are automatically entered into this contest, and the school(s) that have the highest increase in students usage (as compared to March 2025) will win some sweet Sora swag for you and your students from OverDrive!
You can find more information and links to marketing materials, ideas, and shareable QR Codes for curated collections on the WSDLC website.
So get ahead of the summer slide and increase awareness of the WSDLC collections by encouraging your students to participate in a friendly competition with other schools across the state!
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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/.
