Monday 5×5 for December 10, 2018
Last week I shared the biggest fiction bestsellers of the last 100 years, today it’s the biggest nonfiction bestsellers Bill Cosby was big in the 1980s. Awkward. Vulture on the plagiarist poet debacle that erupted on Twitter Look. When it comes to art, there is…
3 keys to success for reading at Guernsey
By: Elizabeth Hutchinson, Head of Schools’ Library Service, Guernsey Schools’ Library Service in Guernsey adopted OverDrive ebooks in 2015. It was part of our move into providing more online resources. One of our roles as SLS librarians is to promote reading for information, whether that…
Books for Break!
By: Sarah Wilsman, Collection Development Specialist. My maternal grandmother managed an independent bookstore when I was growing up and my birthday is before the holidays, so I always received lots of books in December which was a good thing for this avid reader. Winter Break…
Challenge Your Patrons to Read this Holiday Break
By: Annie Suhy, Marketing Specialist Picture this: it’s holiday break and you’re lounging in your sweatpants on the couch. iPad in hand. Browsing social media. Leftover cookies in your belly. The movie A Christmas Story playing in the background on the TV, over and over…
OverDrive’s favorite holiday songs
By: Sarah Wilsman, Collection Development Specialist. OverDrive loves holiday songs! When polled about their favorite holiday songs there were immediate, sometimes lengthy and very diverse replies: Santa Claus is Coming to Town – Springsteen version listen here Sleigh Ride – Boston Pops listen here White Christmas…
She’s making a list, she’s checking it…incessantly: using the “Add to list” feature in Sora
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist. My TBR list is reaching critical mass. Stacks upon stacks of books fill up the rooms in my house and my animals have even started using them as perches and as stepping stones to get to the windowsills. Offline, I…
How to get something for everybody on your patron holiday shopping list
The holiday season is upon us, and as the end of the year approaches, we’re sure you have a lot on your collective plates; finishing up last-minute projects, finalizing campaigns for 2019, sending reports to various boards of directors and trying to make sure you…
Oh, what fun! Promote your digital library this holiday season.
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist. ? School bell rings, are you listening? Break has started, screens are glistening! Spend it right, happily reading each night Holidays with Sora in hand!? NEW GRAPHICS YULE LOVE We’re in the holiday spirit, and we hope you’re feeling it too!…
Monday 5×5 for December 3 2018
HELLO DECEMBER! Ohmygosh. There’s only one month left in 2018, can you believe it? Electric Literature asks is Iceland the most literary country in the world? This is a really wonderful introduction to the history of Icelandic literature and the trajectory it has taken to…
Register today for OverDrive’s Best of 2018 webcast!
Don’t miss your chance to join us for our final special webcast of the year, OverDrive’s Best of 2018! In this 60-minute session, we’ve gift wrapped everything you need to create reading happiness for your users: the best content, our favorite marketing ideas, and the…