[ISLMA-Share] eRead Illinois in JH and High School

Katrina Quattlander kquattlander at panaschools.com
Mon May 2 09:54:22 CDT 2016


Thank you all for your feedback!

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Annette Heintzman <AHeintzm at dps61.org>
wrote:

> I have 3 K-8 and 2 MS.  The 6-8 grades in my schools have had access to
> Eread Illinois since we came back to school in January.  I worked with
> Leslie and with her help determined that my students would have the JUV
> code for “scoping”.  She is very helpful and answered all my questions
> quickly.  She took care of the batch change of codes for my schools.  The
> students have enjoyed having access to this great source of books.  I
> warned them as I was working with classes to get their accounts set up that
> the newest additions to the collection would be the ones with the longest
> hold times and most of the time they found something they were interested
> in reading.
>
> The “scoping” has worked quite well for us and as I have become more
> comfortable with the platform I have started to consider switching the 8th
> graders to the YA code.
>
> It has been a good investment for us.  I’m interested in seeing how many
> of the students use this over the summer.
>
>
>
> Annette Heintzman
>
>
>
> *From:* islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info [mailto:
> islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info] *On Behalf Of *Email list for the
> Illinois School Library Media Association
> *Sent:* Monday, April 25, 2016 10:33 PM
> *To:* islma at list.railslibraries.info
> *Subject:* Re: [ISLMA-Share] eRead Illinois in JH and High School
>
>
>
> We are a K-8 school looking into ERead Illinois for our school next school
> year so I would be really interested in hearing more about this.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Linda
>
>
>
>
> Linda Zeilstra Sawyer
>
> School Library Media Specialist
>
> St. Francis Xavier School
>
> 808 Linden Ave, Wilmette, IL 60091
> (847) 256-0644
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
> We've had increasing interest and requests for ebooks in our libraries so
> I'm looking at subscribing to eRead Illinois for our JH and HS libraries.
> For those of you that already participate, how do your schools handle the
> accessibility students have to all types of content, such as adult/mature
> titles in a JH setting, etc.?  I've learned that eRead has a 'scoping'
> feature to limit the titles they can browse, have you found this to be
> effective?  Do you have parental consent forms?
>
>
>
> I'd like to be prepared with solutions when our administrators or parents
> express their concerns on this point.  Thanks so much for your help!
>
>
>
> --
>
> Katrina Quattlander
>
> District Librarian
>
> Pana CUSD #8
>
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Katrina Quattlander
District Librarian
Pana CUSD #8
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