The slides below explain how to add public library collections to your Sora account to greatly increase your access to eBooks and audiobooks. The instructions will cover adding the Newton Free Library, part of the Minuteman Library Network. The last slide includes the names of all the other networks you can also add.
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SYNC gives participants two thematically paired audiobooks each week. Titles are all available worldwide and change every Thursday at midnight Eastern Time during the season.
Visit the Sync website to register by text or using your personal email (NOT your @newton.k12.ma.us address).
See a librarian if you need help or have questions!
From NSHS Destiny Discover in a browser
1. In the upper right-hand corner, log in using your student ID and password.
2. Scroll over book covers to read quick information.
3. Find a title with a Follett icon 
e-book or 
audiobook
(our current collection is small)
From NSHS Destiny Discover on a phone
1. Choose your school
2. Log in using your student ID and password.
3. Scroll over book covers to read quick information.
4. Find a title with a Follett icon e-book or audiobook
(our current collection is small)
Small collection of fiction and non-fiction titles. After login, you will be able to read title immediately in browser.
In the site box, start typing Newton and select Newton South High School from the drop down list, then username is NewtonSouthLibrary and our library password.
sample titles:
My Antonia by Will Cather
If You Really Love Me by Anne Schaft
Asthma by Wendy Murphy
Discovering Atoms by Margaret Campbell
Latinos Today by Thomas Arkham
Story of Facebook by Sara Gilbert
Click on the Passwords link at top for remote login information.
From NSHS Destiny Discover in a browser
1. In the upper right-hand corner, log in using your student ID and password.
2. Scroll over book covers to read quick information.
3. Find a title with a Follett icon e-book or audiobook
(our current collection is small)
From NSHS Destiny Discover on a phone
1. Choose your school
2.Log in using your student ID and password.
3. Scroll over book covers to read quick information.
4. Find a title with a Follett icon e-book or audiobook
(our current collection is small)
Large collection of e-books in a wide range of subject areas.
Click on the Passwords tab at the left for remote login information.
Small collection of fiction and non-fiction titles. After login, you will be able to read title immediately in browser.
Find Newton South High School in the drop down list, then use the username and password from the Passwords tab at the left.
sample titles:
My Antonia by Will Cather
If You Really Love Me by Anne Schaft
Asthma by Wendy Murphy
Discovering Atoms by Margaret Campbell
Latinos Today by Thomas Arkham
Story of Facebook by Sara Gilbert
E-books in subject areas: Literature, History, Science, and Health.
Click on the Passwords tab at the left for remote login information.
140 Brandeis Road
Newton, MA 02459
call: (617) 559-6561
nshslibrary@newton.k12.ma.us