Get Your Read On This Holiday Break

New eBook Delivery System and Library Book Club Book

MackinVia: Your New Way to Curl Up with a Digital Book

Awesome news! You are now a member of the Pennsylvania eBook Consortium, providing you 24/7 access to not only OUR eBooks, but a collection of high interest eBooks purchased across the state level for your use!

Choose your school
Log in with Google Authentication using your DASD provided Google accounts
Download the MackinVia App for easy access on your device
eBooks, Audiobooks, and Databases all available through this platform
Link is on our libguides pages and here: https://www.mackinvia.com/
Check out books to your backpack
Take notes, add highlights, or just read, listen, and enjoy!

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MackinVia

Look for this image on our libguides page to get access to your collection of e- and audiobooks. Here is a direct link to MackinVia. You should be able to use your google account to log in.

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Your Home Screen

Your home screen will show the newest and highest rated books. Links on your left will allow you to search by type. Check out the advanced search options for even more specific searching.

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Take Notes and Highlight

You can take notes and highlight within the text. All of your highlights and notes will then appear in the notebook, accessible at the green button next to your name, even after you close the book. You do not need to check out the book in order to take notes.

I Will Always Write Back: A Collaborative Book Club Opportunity with DMS, LMS, and East

We are offering a unique Book Club opportunity for the new year. In a partnership with students at DMS, LMS and East, we will be reading the non-fiction book, I Will Always Write Back. This book, is a local story with international and deeply personal consequences:

It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of--so she chose it.
Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got the first one.

That letter was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives.

In this compelling dual memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became best friends --and better people--through letters. Their story will inspire readers to look beyond their own lives and wonder about the world at large and their place in it.

(summary from Goodreads)

We would love for you to join us in this opportunity!

Read through Christmas break and January
Meet with West students and staff to discuss the book
Help mentor DMS students through their reading of the book
Support students in their connections with students from Africa, or connect yourself!
Participate in service opportunities, both at DMS and West
Participate in some of this or all of this-- there are no limits or expectations!

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I Will Always Write Back

Students at DMS and LMS have chosen this book as their joint book club pick. At West and East, we have decided to support them by running a partnering book club. We would LOVE your support and participation. Join us!

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West Book Club

The West Book Club has been running for 4 years. We have had author visits and lots of awesome discussions. We are always welcoming newcomers, both students and faculty!

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Service Opportunity

West students will be supporting DMS with their choice of a service opportunity, but we may also develop a service project of our own. Join the discussion and be the change!