When a student first sets up their Education Tasmania Sora account, they will be able to add Libraries Tasmania.

To access Sora, follow these instructions: Sora by OverDrive in schools: Getting started. Sora is only accessible to students through their school – meaning that they need to use their unique Department for Education Children and Young People email address and password to log in. To ensure students access age-appropriate content, they will only be able to see and borrow content that is mapped to their year level: Year Level The collection aims to support recreational reading it does not include teaching and learning resources. Titles were chosen based on what is most popular in Libraries Tasmania’s print and electronic collections, and in Sora collections in Australian schools. The Sora collection includes a range of formats and titles to cater for students from Prep to Year 12. Students can choose to return a loan early or renew a loan (if there are no holds on the item). Sora will automatically return items on the due date. Students are not responsible for returning their loans. In addition to this, students can have 5 loans and 5 holds on eBooks and eAudiobooks from Libraries Tasmania, and they can borrow as many magazines as they like for up to 21 days. Students can borrow as many magazines as they like, with a maximum loan period of 21 days. Students can have 5 loans and 5 holds on eBooks and eAudiobooks from Education Tasmania. This is due to limitations set by publishers or because of cost. Unfortunately, some of the more recent and popular titles don’t have simultaneous access.

Most of the collection has simultaneous access (ie multiple students can all borrow the same title at the same time). Students can borrow from the Sora collection using the app on their phone or tablet, or through a web browser on their laptop or PC. These schools can now access a large collection of eBooks, eAudiobooks, digital magazines, comics, graphic novels and levelled readers using Sora. In an Australian first, Libraries Tasmania has worked with the State Government to bring Sora into Tasmanian government schools. Using Sora, students can borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks from their school’s library, for free. Sora is a reading app for students, by OverDrive.

Sora reading app