Mackin Educational Resources has partnered with Random House to offer new, bestselling ebook titles to school libraries across the country. The agreement gives librarians and media specialists the opportunity to grow their school’s collections with such sought-after titles as Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963, the companies announced. “It is exciting to now advance our relationship by making available…through MackinVIA our digital catalog of over 36,000 new and backlist titles,” says Skip Dye, Random House’s vice president of library and academic sales, in the announcement. “Random House publishes many of the most-often requested fiction, biography, classic, and non-fiction titles to support learning," Dye says. "Undeniably, this is a diverse offering of titles, all of which are perfect tools to help students enhance their resources and to grow their knowledge bases." The aim of the MackinVIA digital resource management system is to provide educators and students an easy-to-navigate tool to manage all their school’s digital resources, Mackin says. Adds Randal Heise, Mackin's president and co-owner, “This inspirational partnership with Random House supports Mackin’s core-belief of offering current and future customers access to one of the most inclusive eBook collections in the industry. To provide relevant digital content of this caliber is precisely what every school, library, and student needs to help propel the profound shift that is already shaping the direction of education today."