Save big in the last weeks of our Mags-travaganza
December is a hectic time chock full of travel, shopping, wrapping, family gatherings and, if we’re being honest, eating. This can make it difficult to find time to sit back with a good book be it physical, e or audio. It’s likely your users are…
The best books we read in 2018
Around the OverDrive offices we spend a lot of time talking about books. Our staff librarians are constantly producing exceptional curated lists in Marketplace, our social media channels are teeming with collections for readers to discover, and our Professional Book Nerds podcast dishes out weekly…
Sora and the gift of digital
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist. It’s another year, another beginning, and another opportunity to discuss the merits of digital in today’s age with all of you. The first time I did this, I used helpful and trusted statistics to support my idea. Numbers never lie….
Shop smarter with assorted lending models
By: Erica Tucker, Product Support Manager As Marketplace users likely know, OverDrive offers access to several different lending models (a set of purchasing and borrowing terms for digital content, determined by the publisher) in Marketplace. While Marketplace defaults to the One Copy/One User & Metered…
Singapore’s Crazy Rich Success
By: Sarah Delano, Product Support Specialist National Library Board Singapore has been a leader among their peers boasting technology achievements such as the first OverDrive Digital Business Library. This fall, they reached a new record by having the most successful Simultaneous Use title in OverDrive…
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…