This page includes marketing and promotional materials for:
Library Media Specialists | Teachers | Parents | Connecting Sora with Your Public Library | WSDLC Logos
- You can find an ever-changing assortment of marketing and promotional resources for Sora through the OverDrive Resource Center.
- Read through OverDrive’s Schools Blog post 13 Ways to Use Sora Side-by-Side With Your Physical Library (Written by Kristen Hein, Product Support Specialist. May 31st, 2022.)
- Check out this blog post from Director of Innovation of Instructional Technology and Library Media at Van Meter School in Iowa, Shannon McClintock Miller: 10 Easy Ways To Promote eBooks and eResources Within Destiny! (March 2018)
- Read through past OverDrive Sora Spotlight posts and look at 2021’s Sora School Stars winners.
- Read about what other WSDLC members have done on by going to the Marketing & Engagement Member Idea Exchange document.
- Look at the WSDLC’s Flipped Classroom training theme for January: Flipped Classroom: Marketing & Training.
For Library Media Specialists
Getting Started with WSDLC
Customizable Halfsheet Handouts
2 per page (Updated April 2022)
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Downloadable Files: DOC | PDF | PDF (fillable form)
Getting Started with WSDLC
Customizable Bookmarks
5 per page (Updated April 2022)
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Have You Tried Sora, Yet?
Bookmarks
(July 2019)
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Press Release
Template
A customizable template for use by members that are just onboarding with the WSDLC, would like to remind their community of Sora, or for non-members looking to gain support to join the WSDLC.
(Updated April 2022)
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Mail Merge for Student/Staff Email
Template
Mail merge templates to do a personalized email to students and staff that includes the link and their username and password.
Created by Beth Hennes, Madison West High School (Formerly at Marshall Public Schools)
(January 2018)
“I send this out a few times a year, using the same Google Sheet that I use to feed my OverDrive Library Card Manager to upload users. My Google Add-on of choice for that is Form Mule–I also use this for other database logins sometimes.” – Beth Hennes
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Access the Google Doc templates, complete with instructions and hints, here: Mail merge templates for student/staff email
Digital Library Cards
Template
Created by Beth Hennes, Madison West High School (Formerly at Marshall Public Schools)
(March 2019)
“For our littlest kids without emails (PreK-3) and elementary who might rarely check email, we made “digital library cards” that we could print to send home (and laminate for classroom use). We made one mega-long PDF so that we could print more than one per page. My Google Add-on of choice for that is Autocrat. I used the Library Card Manager Google Sheet for that one too.
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Access the Google Doc template here: Digital Library Card template
Greenwood High School promotional video (March 2018)
Michele Green from GHS shared the promotional video her school submitted to the OverDrive contest. Enjoy!
For Teachers
Customizable Halfsheet WSDLC Introduction for Teachers
2 per page (Updated April 2022)
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For Parents
Back in Time: Marketing Materials for Parents from 2018
The following WSDLC Member-created examples are wonderful for sparking ideas, but include outdated language and reference links/sites that are no longer available. Use these to jumpstart your own materials and to help you craft your messaging.
OverDrive Overview for Parents
(January 2018, Google Doc)
Created by Mike Scoville from Gibralter Area Schools, this one-page handout provides the basics about the WSDLC and OverDrive in both English and Spanish.
Letter for parents to explain OverDrive changes
(January 2018, .pdf)
For schools who already subscribed to OverDrive, created by Jen Peterson, Menasha Joint School District
Flier for Parents
(January 2018, .pdf)
A brief introduction to the WSDLC resources, by Beth Hennes when she was at Marshall Public Schools.
Connecting with your Public Library
Note: These resources are NOT about Public Library Connect, but rather the option for students to use Sora to also access materials from their public library, as long as they have a public library card. Materials from their public library DO NOT follow your school’s content access levels.
What you need to know to help students connect to the WSDLC collection (April 2018, .doc)
Public Library Email Example (April 2018, .doc)
