Getting Started with Bookshare

Bookshare is a great tool available for students with IEPs and special educators. Teachers with access can download and assign books used in class to students who have been assigned an account. Students with access are able to download the books and textbooks they are using in class and take notes right in the online book. You can also listen to the audio while following along or taking notes. Other great features including the dictionary allows students to look up right away any words they don't know to get the most out of what they are reading. Bookshare can be accessed from an online browser so you can sign in anywhere and pick up right where you left off!

Here is the link to the Bookshare website.

Click here to view a presentation with instructions on how to use the features of Bookshare.

Click here to see the Bookshare YouTube channel to watch tutorials on how to find your way around the site. Here is a video on finding and requesting books on Bookshare:


If you are interested in accessing Bookshare you can contact the Library Media Staff. Here is the link to the Edline page.

Reading Public Library Databases

Our school library has some great databases and resources on their Edline page but the Reading Public Library also has sundry resources that may be used for different purposes. RPL has a page dedicated to Teen Homework Help, which has loads of Resources that are easy to use and access as long as you are a Reading resident with a library card, a video tutorial of how to use these resources is available below.

Three of the resources that are shown above are World History in Context, EBSCO ebooks, and
mango languages. All these resources are accessible and easy to use for different purposes. World History in Context is a great resource for finding background information on a topic, primary sources, and links to other articles.


 EBSCO ebooks can help you find books available in the public domain. It's a search engine just like Google or Yahoo!, except you're searching for books. Books can be viewed by chapter and gives a list of important quotes from the book and a brief synopsis.


 Mango Languages is a login website that allows you to access over 60 languages, which can be a great tool for practicing languages that can feel like an adversary. It also allows you to culturally explore the language and the country from which it originates, a wonderful resource for going above and beyond in your foreign language class or among your peers.

Library Media Center Databases

Research projects can certainly be hard to get started and deep research is complicated. The RMHS School Library has tons of useful resources easily accessible to students, unfortunately some students remain unaware of what's right here. One of these supposedly "under wraps" resources is the databases available on the Library's Edline Page.

The databases are a great for researching assignments, gaining background knowledge, or even satisfying curiosity. The school purchases subscriptions to these highly sought after databases for student to use for furthering their understanding of a subject.

Here is a run through of the databases available and how to use them: