Sora drives digital reading growth in South African schools
By: Thandeka Kaya, College Librarian & Kirston Hoets, Reseller with Meredith Wemhoff, Account Manager. St. John’s College – Houghton in South Africa saw a dramatic increase in both number of checkouts and unique users since the introduction of Sora. In September, St. John’s College’s average checkouts…
The Coolest Marketplace Feature You’re Not Using: Title Assignments
By Sydney Kalnay: Training Specialist. What is a title assignment? Simply put, a title assignment is a way to put ebooks and audiobooks right on the home page of Sora for a student when he or she logs in. No searching, no borrowing—no forgetting. The…
5 fall activities to pair with audiobooks
By: Tiffany Wincek, Account Manager. We’re experiencing a full weather transition here in Cleveland: a little over a week ago, the precipitation in the morning was so insulting that I claimed it was hating from the sky. The part-snow, part-rain, and part-hail assault caused me…
Over the Moon with OverDrive
By: Carolyn Matheson and Penny Jameson, Head Librarians, with Meredith Wemhoff, Account Manager. OverDrive team members, Julia Madjar and Danny Lapchak, recently visited the Coombabah State High School in Queensland, Australia. Head Librarians, Carolyn Matheson and Penny Jameson, are dedicated to promoting a lifelong love…
Your Brain on Audiobooks: Why Listening Matters
By: Annie Suhy, Outreach Specialist. Before we are able to read, our parents read to us. We follow the story with our ears and the colorful illustrations spark our imaginations. Many have memories of parents, grandparents, siblings, or teachers reading to them as young children….
Britannica Digital Learning provides knowledge & nostalgia at your fingertips
On a recent episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast, author, talk show host and stand-up comedian Guy Branum shared a wonderful story about encyclopedias. In both the interview and his book My Life as a Goddess, Guy discusses how, when he was young, the…
Happy Teen Read Week!
By: Sarah Wilsman, Collection Development Specialist Confession: I read a lot of YA Lit. A lot of it. I love teen fiction because it is honest even when the narrators are unreliable. I love diving into the diverse teen world and taking journeys of identity….
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Three million people are diagnosed with dyslexia each year. Students might struggle with reading fluency, decoding, reading comprehension, recall, writing, spelling and sometimes speech. All of these challenges might exist along with other related disorders, which can make the learning experience incredibly stressful. Among students…
Top 5 questions from our Sora webcasts
By: Courtney Sveda, Training Specialist. Over the past two months, we’ve been sharing Sora, our new student reading app, with school partners through a series of live training webcasts. We’re happy so many of you joined us to learn more! During these sessions, we chatted…
Grab your Red Balloon and join The Big Library Read
Get ready to go back in time on an adventure in magical realism, Cold War conspiracies, World War II and much more because the latest Big Library Read has launched. From now through October 15, readers at the more than 22,000 participating OverDrive library and…