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Shared Collections
Incredible Value / Complete Solution
Access to 2,000+ eBooks for €950 p.a.
(The minimum value of titles exceeds €15,000 and grows as member libraries join)
Access to 750+ Audiobooks for €1,450 p.a.
(The minimum value of titles exceeds €25,000 and grows as member libraries join)
Incredible Value - No Catches
Join a consortium of libraries like yours so your students can enjoy a huge collection of titles
(over 2,000 eBook titles / 1,000 Audiobook titles & multiple copies based on demand) dynamically
managed by our systems to ensure the best value eLending solution on the planet. We now have Audiobooks in shared collections - please contact us for more details.
Don’t take our word for it – review the actual collections here via the demonstration sites:
Primary School Shared Collection - High School Shared Collection
This really is a revolution in eLending, read on!
Collection Built With Your Students In Mind
We've built shared collections based on schools like yours, taking into account age and geographical factors. We have separate collections for primary and secondary schools, with unique collections in each country we serve, so you are only paying for books that are suitable for your students.
Other Schools Like Yours
Your school will be joining many other schools with similar age students and locations that have already banded together to build a fabulous collection of eBooks and Audiobooks. For example, a junior school in the UK would join a consortium of other junior schools in the UK, or in Australia, a secondary school would join other secondary schools. We have these Shared Collections in Asia, North America, and Europe as well. As more schools join the shared collection, the breadth and depth of the collection will increase to ensure a superb experience for each student.
Everybody Gets Involved
This is a collaborative effort. The core of the collection is built around the statistical data we have from the thousands of school eLibraries that we already provide, so we can see what's popular for what age groups in each country we serve. From there we canvas suggestions from member schools who may have special requirements and suggestions. As a shared collection we ensure that each title has appeal to more than just one member so that the most relevant collection is built to serve the member community.
Shared Collection But You Are In Control
Even though you will be sharing a collection you'll be in control of many aspects of your ePlatform. You can choose the look and feel, web address, school logo to match your school's branding, and you can customise other aspects such as special messages to students. You will also be able to age restrict titles, manage your student's access and view usage reports
Sharing - Some Things You Should Know
If you have a private collection your students can borrow all the books in the collection, however in a shared environment we need to make sure each member school has equal access to the titles. We do this by having generous limits on simultaneous loans and loans per month. We have set these limits generously and ensured the collection has the depth to support them. Contact us for details but we are sure you will find they easily exceed your expected student usage.
Want More Control?
For the great majority of schools, ePlatform Shared Collections meet their needs, providing collection breadth, which would be very expensive to match in a private collection. However, some schools have special requirements for titles not in the shared collection or may want more copies of some titles for class set purposes. In these cases, you can build a private collection that sits seamlessly alongside the shared collection. The private collection is developed by purchasing books via the ePlatform shop which are then immediately available and visible to your students. Other members of the shared collection will not be able to see or borrow these copies.
With you every step of the way
Customising your ePlatform
Preparing your ePlatform to look amazing with your look and logo is easy. Often we create the banner header area for you using elements from your school's webpage and images - if you are happy with this there is nothing for you to do. In other cases schools prefer to prepare and supply us with their own graphics and that's completely fine.
Adding Students (aka Authentication)
Adding students to access your eLibrary can be daunting, but we have made this super easy by offering some extremely simple methods that will not require IT department assistance and will have you sorted in minutes. Of course we also support LMS integrated methods such as LDAP and SIP2. We suggest start with the simple method to keep momentum going and then switch to the LMS integrated method later. More information on this here.
Promoting to Students
Once your new eLibrary is looking fantastic it's time to launch it to your students. We are absolutely passionate about student usage. We will help you by providing promotional materials such as posters, bookmarks, shelf wobblers that you can display in the library. We also have a large range of digital assets that you can use to promote the eLibrary on your school's homepage.
