The free Sora platform (offered directly from OverDrive) is a free instance of Sora for schools and school districts. The free Sora platform comes with a very small collection of simultaneous use titles that each student can check out. OverDrive strongly recommends that for any schools that are interested in the free platform, that the entire district join it. The free platform is handled entirely by OverDrive, which means that schools do not need to be MLS members to be able to join the free platform. More information about the free Sora platform is available here: https://pub.e.overdrive.com/sorasetup?_ga=2.27138365.1256477223.1596028618-3443e9d7-1ba3-4b9a-9c63-94b30819df3b.
The MLS shared Sora collection (Commonwealth eBook Collections) also uses the Sora platform but there is much more content available to students (20,000+ eBooks and audiobooks!). This collection open to MLS school members and schools pay an annual fee (100% of which goes towards the purchasing of more content for the collection). See the attached file for more detailed information on this program.
