School Libraries and Ebooks

Wilson, Shibrie

Nelson, C. (2012). What eBooks Mean for School Libraries: Part 1. Education World. Retrieved from http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/how-a-school-library-has-embraced-ebooks.shtml

Dorman High School in Roebuck, South Carolina has adopted ebooks within its collection. Ebooks were initially used amongst students for recreational reading and many popular fiction books were available. Students were able to choose from two different resources, one being Gale resources and the other OverDrive. Gale resources are able to accessed from the library catalog operated by Destiny and accessed from computers and mobile devices. OverDrive was used for adult fiction books in which librarians felt that students would enjoy to read outside of curriculum reads. Devices are not provided to individuals by school instead, student bring their own devices and access materials accordingly. Teachers are also able to access these materials and according to article are extremely pleased because of amount of content they can access. Librarians found it important that students were able to have options in how to access materials such as whether or not to choose print or a digital book. 

Opinion:

I appreciate Dorman High School for doing a trial for how successful ebooks would be for the libraries. I think it is very important for students to have a choice in type of material in which they would like to choose. Both sources in which they are utilizing for digital materials are valuable.