Launched in Summer 2020, the HVLA Consortium partners with OverDrive to provide member schools with a robust, shared digital library via the Sora platform. School librarians choose us for three key advantages:
High Student Engagement: A highly intuitive, user-friendly Sora app paired with a student-friendly 14-day lending window.
Expanded Access: Seamless public library integration combined with a strict 3:1 holds ratio, ensuring students face incredibly short wait times for popular books.
Premium Content Variety: Instant access to a vast, curated catalog including over 86,000 combined ebook and audiobook copies, hundreds of simultaneous-use digital magazines, and a global World Language Collection featuring titles in Spanish, Mandarin, French, Arabic, and more.
Our OverDrive Sora HVLA collection includes
10,910
unique ebooks (78,721 copies)
1761
unique audiobooks (7945 copies)
708
magazines available for simultaneous use
8 World Languages
collection includes titles in Arabic, French, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish
Questions? Check out our FAQ section, or email: consortiumhvla@gmail.com
Members of the Sora HVLA Consortium Leadership Committee
Lisa Dettling, Kristyn Dorfman, Katie Elwood, Maria Falgoust,
Jon French, Abbey Gans Mather, Karen Grenke,
Anna Murphy, Meghan Murray, Angela Perna, Susan Seitner