eBook & Audiobook Downloads for K-12

Motivate all students to read more with books they need in formats they want!

OverDrive® School Download Library® supplements your school library with eBook and audiobook downloads from your school's website. It's easy and based on a proven platform currently serving 8,500 public libraries worldwide: Students install free software on their computers, browse the secure website for curriculum-based or recreational titles, check out their selections with an existing library card (or other ID), then download audiobooks and eBooks to their desktop or laptop PC. They can even transfer most titles to supported mobile devices!

Improve Skills & Enhance Interest for Everyone

This is a great new tool to help all students read more. Struggling or reluctant readers, learning-challenged, second language learners, even gifted readers can all benefit from School Download Library:

• Enrich vocabulary and improve comprehension and pronunciation


• Introduce students to books above their reading level


• Teach critical listening


• Help busy kids find time to read

How? Technology engages students. Computers and devices are everywhere, and kids use them constantly. Now here's a great new learning tool that takes advantage of the technology kids love!

Library Never Closes!

Supplement your school library with downloadable books for offline use. School Download Library comes loaded with hundreds of titles in the core collection, organized by grade level. The core collection includes hundreds of audiobooks in the OverDrive WMA Audiobook format, and eBooks in Adobe PDF and Mobipocket PRC formats.

The collection features a diverse selection of classics, modern literature, math, science, picture books, and study guides, with titles from educational publishers including McGraw-Hill, Rosetta Books, Sound Room Publishers, Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Naxos AudioBooks. Authors in the collection include Jane Austen, H. G. Wells, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Sinclair Lewis, Douglas Adams, William Styron, Beatrix Potter, and Margaret Atwood. Best of all, the core collection is available 24/7 and the School Download Library never closes!

On-the-Go: Digital Books for Digital Kids

Books can be enjoyed on a variety of devices that students already use! Once downloaded to their desktop or laptop PC, students can transfer to the many models of PDAs, Smartphones, and CD and MP3 players that are compatible with OverDrive Audiobooks and eBooks.

Included Services: Access for Every Student

Each School Download Library website offers everything your school needs to motivate all students to read more:

• Easy to use, cost-effective, and convenient
  • Titles never get lost or damaged; no late fees or fines
  
  
  • Affordable pricing for school districts of every size: one annual rate includes access to all the content in the core collection
  
  
  • An outsourced solution that requires no additional expenditures for software, hardware, or consulting
  
  


• Complete, fully-hosted website
  • 24/7 remote access to the collection from home (in school modules are available)
  
  
  • Self-service checkout and authentication
  
  
  • Attractive, easy-to-use website features your school branding
  
  
  • Use options for many titles include burn-to-CD, print, copy/paste, read-out-loud, and/or transfer to portable devices
  
  


• Core collection of more than 600 digital audiobooks and eBooks
  • Most titles are "Always Available" for students--no holds ever needed
  
  
  • Some popular titles are "one copy, one student", which means each copy can be checked out by one student at a time. Additional copies of that title may be purchased. Students may place a "hold" to reserve a title if checked out, and will be notified when it becomes available
  
  
  • Titles in all subjects, organized by grade level
  
  
  • Great for "One Book, One Class" projects, exceptional learners, summer reading, and special needs students
  
  
  • Citations guide for students featuring MLA, APA, and Turabian styles
  
  


• OverDrive Partner Services support
  • Hours of pre-recorded, computer-based training for staff, students, and site administrators
  
  
  • Promotional marketing kit with print-ready flyers, posters, web icons, and more
  
  


• Accessibility
  • All web pages are optimized for screen readers (for blind and visually-impaired students)
  
  
  • OverDrive Media Console (Windows® Media-based software used with OverDrive Audiobooks) offers hot keys and adjustable playback speed
  
  

Additional Features

To extend the reach of your digital book collection, here are additional value-added features of your School Download Library:

• Upload your own content: Teachers and librarians can upload in supported formats their own digital media, such as lesson plans, curricula, or digital audio recordings for download delivery to students. It's easy to customize your collection with a variety of local materials.


• Training: Live, web-based, interactive training for staff, students, or site administrators.


• MARC records: Facilitates links from your online library catalog (OPAC) to your School Download Library holdings. Make it easy for students to find the titles they want, just a click away.


• Special Collections: Customize your School Download Library with premium titles that complement the core collection. Add title sets of New York Times best sellers, classics, foreign language learning, and other subject areas and deliver other titles that your students want to read.


• Gear2Go: Purchase at wholesale from OverDrive durable, inexpensive, high-quality MP3 players so any student can enjoy audiobooks on the go.


• Customized Promotional Services: Need help getting the word out? Get customized marketing tools that promote your new digital book collection.