Overdrive

I am on the Digital Library Committee. We have met at DTS and LHS to start the process of creating a Digital Library for our school district. My library visit is a virtual one as well as physical. Bud Hunt has organized and created this committee. Kahle Charles and Kerin McClure are supporting us on a district level.

Our first meeting was last spring where we chose the committee members: LeAnne Kelly, Sherri Platt, Phil Goerner, Helen Robbins, Linda Stewart, Holli Buchter, Bud Hunt and myself. We have met twice this fall to set up a time line for the digital library and begin the selection process for books.

The purpose of this committee is to build a Digital Library using Overdrive for our students. The secondary schools are in the process of of going to 1:1 devices with iPads. The district has committed to funding $100,000 for Middle School and $100,000 for High School. We all hope this funding will continue each year so we can build the collection.

Our goal is to have Overdrive up and running this fall. This is going to require a lot of collection development over the next few weeks. The list must then be approved by Kahle Charles. We are hoping for a soft launch in November/December.

I have learned a lot in the process. Helen has a beautiful library! She is a wonderful hostess. I am very excited for this process to reach the point of students reading books on their iPads.