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Welcome to the Westbank Community Library's electronic resource tutorial series. In this
tutorial, I am going to show you how to find your way around the TumbleBooks website. To
gain access to any of the library's e-resources, first log into your library account on the
library website. Then you can follow the link to TumbleBooks from the electronic resources
page. Basically TumbleBooks is a collection of children's picture books that have been
adapted to video format. From the home screen, you have the option to either search for a
specific book in the upper left-hand corner or browse within these six categories. Let's
take a look at storybooks. As you can see, you have several options to sort the books
within each category. By how new it is, the author, the title, or the reading level. The
reading level is an extremely handy search tool because each book within the TumbleBooks
library has a grade level recommendation and most even have an accelerated reader reading
level. Notice that the six categories that were on the home screen are now in these green
boxes at the top of the page. Let's look at the language learning category. Here we see
that we also have the option to browse based on the language in which the book was written.
Similarly, in the non-fiction books category, you have the option to browse within various
educational subcategories. Let's take a look at one of the books. [music] "I blend with
the snow as I roam the ice floes of the Arctic in search of fat seals." As the books are
read aloud to you, you have the option to either turn the pages manually or let TumbleBooks
do that for you. Now let's take a look at the other things you can do with the TumbleBooks.
Most books are accompanied by games that relate to the storyline. These include jigsaw puzzles,
crosswords, word searches, and more. Going back, from this screen you can also add books
to 'My Favorites.' You can access 'My Favorites' later through this link at the top of the
page. Going back again, there's also the option to click 'Book Reviews.' On this page you
can read reviews that have already been submitted or write your own. Going back again, we see
that we can also add books to 'My Playlist.' When you create a playlist, you are actually
just putting together a video of several books that are played consecutively. Let's take
a look at the TumbleBooks player. From the TumbleBooks player menu, you can see the books
you have selected and remove books before you start the playlist. Now let's go over
to TumbleTV. Here you can find playlists that have already been created and that are grouped
by reading level, author, and theme. TumbleBooks is one of the library's newest resources and
is perfect for kids who are developing a livelong love of reading.