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Remember: If you are adding MARC records to your catalog for a subscription to eBooks, create a Resource List named for that subscription first. Then choose to add the Titles to that list when you are importing the MARC records. Then, if you decide not to continue your subscription later, you can Export and delete the subscription eBook titles by choosing to Export and Delete the titles in the Resource List that you created.
The following are some of the optional purchases, subscriptions, or eBooks available to your students and teachers through 
or purchase/subscription for your individual library.
World Book eBooks Click here for more information and MARC record files to upload. Please see Remember above. If you don't want a particular title to be available to your students, you can delete it after the upload.Students and teachers can create a personal account or use an existing WorldBook Research account to check out eBooks, and add bookmarks, highlights, and notes that are saved to their account. Subscribers using a supported tablet device may download the World Book eBook app for offline viewing for free from Google Play (Android devices) and iTunes (iPads). Please contact AskRI or info@rilink.org if you can't access these eBooks, or your students or teachers cannot access them from home in Rhode Island. These eBooks are originating IP request authenticated, and some cable assigned IPs do not map as being within Rhode Island.
Mackin Via - an alternative to the Follett eBooks. Mackin eBooks are now integrated with Destiny, and should NOT require a username and password to open them or check them out once you, a student or teacher is logged into Destiny. If this is not working for one or more of your Mackin eBooks, please contact info@rilink.org.
Gale Cengage - eReference aimed at students, researchers, professionals, and general readers through an online virtual library. Take a look at their Toolkits for School Libraries. MARC records can be uploaded to your Destiny site. Gale Virtual Library content is also accessible through OneSearch in Destiny. St. Mary's Academy - Bay View uses both of these methods to make content available to their students and teachers.
eLibrary provides full-text and multimedia reference essentials for middle/high school students. MARC records can be obtained through their 360 MARC Updates service.
Tumblebooks - interactive, animated, audio and video collections designed for audiences K through high school.
Infobase - online information and streaming video. Free MARC records are available for your eBooks.
OverDrive
Rosen Digital publishes award-winning K-12 nonfiction; eBooks and Interactive eBooks powered by the new epointplus enhanced reading experience; apps, games, and interactive databases. All are tablet, smartphone, and Chromebook compatible and are aligned to state, national, provincial, STEM, and Common Core standards.
Offers dozens of units to supplement social studies and science core curricula learning. TrueFlix® is a highly-engaging multimedia resource that can be used in the library, the classroom, on mobile devices, or at home.
It's My State features text-to-speech highlighting, social bookmarking, useful citations, plus a new interactive map.
Lerner Digital eBooks support class reading, pleasure reading, report writing, research, and instructional delivery. EBooks can be shared simultaneously across your school with multi-user access.
Permabound eHub – Two access methods:
"People who love reading are often called bookworms - but that's the wrong way around. It's not you that worms into a book; it's books that worm into you." Novelist Amanda Craig, quoted in the Independent (U.K.)
Get answers to your questions about subscriptions or purchasing eBooks for your library, how to manage your selections and integrate them with your other library resources. Session will feature FollettShelf, but also cover WorldBook eBooks, Permabound, Mackin, Gale, ProQuest, Tumblebooks, and OverDrive.
Dorothy Frechette, RILINK Executive Director
Webinar overview (start at 3:00 minutes on video to 4:25, 1.5 minutes total)
Check out Follett Learning ! Here is the section on eBooks and Destiny.
WorldBook eBooks - How to access them and add them to your catalog
eContent - general help and suggestions
FollettShelf (Follett eBooks in Universal Search Destiny Discover !!!)
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