Steve Reyes, Account Executive, Education Sales sreyes@overdrive.com
Phone: 216-573-6886 ext. 1268
Fax: 216.573.6889
OverDrive, Inc. Global Digital Distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, & more
One OverDrive Way | Cleveland, Ohio 44125 USA
Some key OverDrive advantages:
Why join? Joining the Rhode Island shared collection will give member schools or districts access to more digital titles than any one individual institution could purchase on their own, maximizing the benefits. For example, if School A were to initiate a digital collection of their own, they may only be able to afford 50 titles. However, by joining a collection shared by 20 schools or districts, School A would have access to 1,000 titles. This shared collection grows as more schools or districts join.
Additional benefits include:
What is RILINK contributing? RILINK will add funding to purchase additional titles for the Rhode Island OverDrive Shared Collection that will only be available to RILINK member libraries. A RILINK member school joining the Rhode Island Shared Collection would have access to any of the titles purchased for the Shared Collection. It could also purchase or rent additional titles for its own collection, which would not be available to members of the group. A school library that is not a RILINK member, but joining the Rhode Island OverDrive Shared Access Collection would have access to the titles in the Shared Collection, except for those purchased by RILINK. It could also purchase or rent additional titles for its own collection, which would not be available to members of the Shared Collection. Please see the diagram below.
RILINK is considering affiliate membership for school libraries that wish to share resources, including the Rhode Island OverDrive Shared Collection plus access to LibGuides, ExploringNature and CultureGrams, but are not participating in the RILINK/RICAT shared Destiny Library Manager system. If you are interested affiliate RILINK membership, please let us know.
What happens if I can't maintain my subscription to the Rhode Island Shared Collection the following year?
The Rhode Island OverDrive Shared Collection would become part of BookLynx, which would now include:
See what's currently in our Shared OverDrive Collection at:
Find our Rhode Island OverDrive Shared Collection at http://rissdc.lib.overdrive.com
Get the app at the bottom of the page at http://app.overdrive.com/
The following schools are current members of the Rhode Island Group:
Costs for individual annual school library participation are based on student enrollment, as follows:
|
Number of students |
Annual participation fee |
|
<500 |
$250 |
|
500 – 749 |
$500 |
|
750 – 999 |
$750 |
|
1,000 – 1,499 |
$1,000 |
To join the group, please complete and submit the form below, and submit it with your payment to the OverDrive contact listed on page 2 of the form.
Click here to view the recorded webinar. You will need to enter your name, email, phone number and school (company.)
Directions for viewing:
Viewing recordings with the Conferencing Media Player requires Flash 6 or higher (use Flash 9.0.28 or higher for the optimal viewing experience). If prompted, please follow the instructions to download Flash or go to www.adobe.com to manually install Flash.
To make the player controls visible, hold your mouse over the bottom of the viewing area. You may fast forward or rewind to a particular portion of the recording by dragging the arrow icon with your mouse or using the right/left arrow keys. Tick marks along the player controls indicate the presence of a thumbnail. Clicking a thumbnail will jump to the portion of the recording with the image from the thumbnail.
To view the recording in full screen, click on the full screen icon at the right of the player controls. Once in full screen, click the Exit Full Screen icon in the same location to view the recording in the playback window.
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There are also recorded training webinars at the Resource Center located at http://resources.overdrive.com/k-12-schools/staff-training. Start with these trainings:
*User experience*
-Demonstration: Navigating Your OverDrive School Website
-Demonstration: Reading History and Notes & Highlights
*Marketplace*
-Understanding Lending Models (K-12)
-Shopping for Titles for Your School Website
-Managing Content Access Levels
If you're interested in additional training, please visit the Resource Center for more information.
Marketing assistance
Don’t forget to promote! Please review their Best Practices for Schools—use this checklist to help you make the most of your OverDrive service.
