Library Guides: eBooks and audiobooks: Overview

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Want something to read from home? You've come to the right place.

The Kerferd Library offers a wide range of eBooks and online audio books. In fact we offer over 26,000 eBooks, including audio books) you can download and use from home. Our two main providers are OverDrive via the school Sora app and EBSCO.

OverDrive Sora

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A wide range of fiction ebooks and audio books suitable for all age groups. Curated with our partner library at Ruyton Girls' Grammar School.
If prompted use your School mConnect user name and password to login when off campus.

Over 1,000 eBooks and audio books in an online collection we share with Ruyton Girls' School
To access and borrow these eBooks and audiobooks you need to login with your mConnect user name and password.
Collections are age appropriate and arranged by type and genre. Junior School students can not borrow from the Senior School collections.
You can sync your book loans across multiple devices so you can start reading or listening on your laptop and finish reading it on your phone or tablet.

EBSCOhost eBooks

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A dataset that combines the EBSCO K-8 eBook collection together with any other eBooks purchased by the Kerferd Library. The EBSCO all eBook collection is also great for readers interested in nonfiction.
If prompted use your School mConnect user name and password to login when off campus.

Over 25,000 eBooks.
The Kerferd Library EBSCO eBooks have been curated for students in both the Junior School and the Senior School.
Through EBSCO you also have access to magazines and journals as well as newsfeeds via the ANZ Reference Centre.
To access and borrow these eBooks you need to login with your mConnect user name and password.

Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, over 100 countries have implemented school closures, affecting more than half the world’s student population. For schools shifting from classroom to home learning, having a robust collection of ebooks and audiobooks can help ease the transition.

Be informed and fight COVID-19 fake news. Click here for details.
"The proliferation of fake news about the COVID-19 pandemic has been labelled a dangerous “infodemic”. (Vanderslott, 2020, March 20). Be wary of exaggerated and / or sensationalised stories, especially if sourced from social media.

Many of the world's publishers have provided temporary free access to eBooks and online audio books. To make it easy for you to access all these eBooks and audiobook your Kerferd Library has brought them together on this page. This includes:

The 26,500 plus eBooks in the Kerferd library's permanent collection,
The hundreds of extra eBooks and audio books in the temporary collections, and
Quick links to the temporarily free audiobooks via Amazon audible.

Print collections

Click on the following buttons to explore the Kerferd library's print collections.

Junior School Reading

Senior School Reading