The Jefferson County Board of Education, Homewood City Schools, Hoover City Schools and public libraries in Jefferson County formed an innovative new partnership using e-books and e-audiobooks to modernize and increase access to reading materials for students.

This unique collaboration provides unprecedented access to both the schools’ and the libraries’ digital reading resources in one app. The partnership provides safe access to thousands of age-appropriate titles for students’ use inside the classroom, at home and anywhere 24/7. Through the Sora app, school system students can borrow the school’s collection of classroom and pleasure reading, and also access public libraries’ juvenile and young adult digital collection. The Sora app was named one of TIME magazine’s Best Inventions 2019.

The entire Jefferson County community can access public libraries in Jefferson County’s complete ebook and e-audiobook collection through the award-winning Libby app. Readers can use Libby on any major device or computer.

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