Happy Tuesday!
The WSDLC Annual Membership Survey is Open!
Each year, the WSDLC Project Managers offer a survey as an opportunity for member schools and districts to provide valuable feedback to the WSDLC Board and Project Managers that will be used to help the WSDLC Board further develop the Consortium and the OverDrive service.
The 2023 Membership Survey opened yesterday (January 30th), and all WSDLC members should have received the link to complete this survey. Please take a moment to complete this survey and share with the WSDLC Board and Project Managers your successes, joys, and suggestions as they relate to the consortium and how your school/district utilizes Sora.
Your responses by Friday, February 24th, 2023, will be greatly appreciated.
The survey should take at most 15 minutes to complete, and the results will be shared with the WSDLC membership at the Annual Membership Meeting in May.
If you did not receive a link to complete this survey, please reach out to the WSDLC Project Managers at wsdlc-info@wils.org with your School and District name, and we can have you added to the members email listserv and get the link to you.
Thank you very much for your time and thoughts!
Join Us At the WEMTA Conference in Rothschild, WI Next Week (February 6th)!
Please join the WSDLC, along with WiLS Cooperative Purchasing and Recollection Wisconsin, at the annual WEMTA conference, scheduled for Sunday February 5th – Tuesday February 7th in Rothschild, WI!
Stop by to say hi and chat with WiLS staff members in the exhibit hall on Monday at booth number 203, then slide on over to the booth next-door where you’ll be able to meet with two of the WSDLC’s OverDrive Team Members: Account Executive Connie Bowman and Account Manager Lena Richardson.
Grab your device and join us for a hands-on session discussing features like curating the collection, title assigning from your Advantage content and content access levels. Have a collection you’ve been meaning to curate? Bring your idea to the session and make it happen.
This will be a hands-on session that will walk attendees on how each Sora user can personalize their experience. Grab your device, log in to Sora and join us for an interactive session on how you can customize your reader settings, engage in content, and set your preferences.
COVID-19 accelerated technology adoption in K-12. But now that schools have these devices, what’s the best way to use them to support learning? See how districts are embracing digital books to address learning gaps by delivering students equitable access to a broader range of diverse reading resources. Discover how schools are adapting and quickly meeting the needs of large numbers of students, and leveraging the power of anytime, anywhere digital book access to build cost-effective district-level collections. We’ll also discuss how students are being protected through secure single sign-on authentication and the privacy ebooks afford to explore and learn at their own pace.
You can learn more about this conference and register to attend here.
Flipped Classrooms: Last Day for Usage Statistics; Tomorrow Begins Managing Holds
January’s Flipped Classroom is Usage Statistics, where you will learn how to view your school’s and/or district’s usage statistics by utilizing Marketplace Insights. Insights is the area of your Marketplace account where you can run a variety of reports including, but certainly not limited to, the titles and formats that are getting checked out, what’s being purchased, how many holds are on titles, and how your students are interacting with Sora. You will also see how you can break down these reports to view usage at the consortium level, by only your school (Branch), or at the Advantage level.
Beginning February 1st, we’ll be focusing on Managing Holds, where you can look at how to make the most of your Advantage purchases, and a look at some of the features and programs OverDrive and the WSDLC employ to get the books your students want in to their hands sooner. There is also an excellent marketing resource regarding holds created by one of our members!
What are the WSDLC’s Flipped Classrooms?
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.
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/
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/.
