Nebo School District teams up with Beehive Library Consortium

In this mobile age, technology has become increasingly valuable in supporting new genera- tions of lifelong learn- ers and readers.

Nebo School District and Beehive Library Consortium have formed an innovative new partnership to increase access to more ebooks and e-audio- books for students.

This unique col- laboration strives to promote literacy and digital learning by combining the schools’ and the library’s digital reading resources in one app. As a result, students can learn anytime, anywhere because of the conve- nience, ease of reading on-the-go and the inherent popularity of technology.

The school-library partnership provides safe access to thou- sands of age-appropri- ate titles for students’ use inside the class- room, at home and anywhere 24/7.

Through Sora, the new student reading app for Nebo School

District, students can now borrow the school’s collection of classroom and plea- sure reading, and also access Beehive Library Consortium’s juvenile and young adult digital collection.

In addition, Sora supports teachers by offering education-spe- cific tools like achieve- ments, exportable notes, and reading progress that encourage individualized learning.

“We are thrilled to partner with Payson City Library,” said

Lana Hiskey, Commu- nications Community Relations Coordinator at Nebo School Dis- trict.

“This partnership enables our Nebo stu- dents to have greater ebook and audiobook access for learning!”

The Sora app was named one of Time’s Best Inventions 2019 and is available for Nebo School District students to download through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and on Chrome- books that support the

Google Play Store.

It is also available for use in web browsers at https://soraapp.com on any computer. Utah residents can also bor- row and read Beehive Library Consortium’s complete ebook and e-audiobook collection with a valid library card through the award-winning Libby app.

The library’s tailored collection offers eb- ooks, e-audiobooks and magazines including bestsellers and new releases.

Readers of all ages can select from vir- tually every subject ranging from mystery, romance, children’s, business and more. Libby can be used on any major device or computer, includ- ing Apple, Android, Chromebook, and Kindle.

Both reading apps are built by OverDrive and OverDrive Education. To learn more, visit https://meet.soraapp. com and https://meet. libbyapp.com.