LibraryPass and Oni Press Announce Digital Access for Libraries and Schools Through Comics Plus
LibraryPass welcomes Oni Press to Comics Plus, offering libraries and schools unlimited simultaneous access to their full digital catalog.
LibraryPass welcomes Oni Press to Comics Plus, offering libraries and schools unlimited simultaneous access to their full digital catalog.
We’re looking forward to our favorite online event of the year, once again proudly sponsoring Library Journal and School Library Journal’s LibraryCon Live! on Thursday, November 9, 2023. The free virtual event celebrates its ninth year with a full day of programming featuring comics and graphic novels, and is an excellent opportunity to catch up on readers’ advisory recommendations and professional development.
LibraryPass is excited to be exhibiting at AASL 2023 (Tampa Bay, FL) for the first time! In addition to demos of Comics Plus and hosting a session on dealing with book challenges, we’re also bringing along a small library featuring some of our favorite publishers’ comics and manga that we’ll be giving away to one lucky school librarian at the end of the show!
Comics and manga are important for supporting independent reading but can also be effective tools for improving literacy, language learning, and reading for pleasure across a broad audience. With increasing availability of classroom-appropriate titles addressing a variety of educational subjects, educators should work with their librarian partners to include comics and manga in their lesson plans.
2022 was another record year for digital circulation in many libraries as the demand for digital content continued unabated. LibraryPass hit a new benchmark of its own, announcing more than one million checkouts of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga in Comics Plus throughout the year. Achieving this milestone in only its third year exclusively serving schools and libraries was thanks to 2,500+ customers in the US and around the world offering their students and patrons unlimited, simultaneous access to a diverse collection of titles. And it was made possible by dozens of library-friendly publisher partners making their titles available to schools and libraries because they truly believe in equitable access.
LibraryPass welcomes the award-winning publisher to Comics Plus, offering libraries and schools unlimited simultaneous access to dozens of award-winning and critically acclaimed titles — some for the first time ever in digital format!