An Introduction to the Reading Cloud

Library Cards

• Barcode

• Reading Cloud URL

• Username

• Default Password

u015640.microlibrarian

.net

Features

• Search the library

• See most popular and recently returned books

• Check borrowed books

• Information on authors

• Suggested next reads

Social networking to promote reading

• Connect with other pupils

• Share book reviews and blogs

• Develop a ‘home library’

• Safely learn about e-safety and online

manners

E-safety

• Automatic word filtering

• Peer reporting

• Year 5 and 6 ‘e-safety monitors’

• Fixed users

E-books and audio books

• Treated like physical books

• Borrowed through the Reading Cloud or iMLS

app

(search for ‘Overdrive’)

• Return automatically

• Library expands every year

Questions?