Your Essential Libby Marketing Checklist
By: Annie Suhy, OverDrive Marketing Specialist A little over a year ago, we introduced Libby to the world. Her bright red hair and shy smile intrigued us; and her love of books was contagious. Have you introduced her to your patrons yet? If not, we’re…
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…
Monday 5×5 Sept 24 2018
Publisher’s Weekly discusses the fact that Susan Orleans knows librarians are superheroes I’m so excited for this book, and not just because it may give the Professional Book Nerds another opportunity to interview Susan. Instead, when we did interview she was working on this book…
National Library Board of Singapore Receives Digital Innovation Award
Sept. 19, 2018 – Global leader OverDrive rewards library’s technological advancements in serving the mobile user
Now is your chance to save big on YA and juvenile audiobooks
As you may have noticed, we’ve been running a massive sale in OverDrive Marketplace highlighting quality content that perfectly aligns with back to school time. Both libraries and schools can take advantage of some of the wonderful collections and custom created lists you’ll find on…
Celebrate the Magic of Reading on Read An Ebook Day
Sept. 18, 2018 – Global holiday encourages the reading and discussion of ebooks on September 18
Ask Team OverDrive: our favorite teachers
By: Tiffany Wincek, Account Manager. We here at OverDrive hope that your school year is off to an amazing start. You positively impact your learners’ lives every day—so much so that, decades from now, your students will still remember you for the funny things that happened…
The Hate U Give…away
Get a signed copy of The Hate U Give to give away for your next library book club The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas has won countless major literary awards, sat atop the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and is…
Monday 5×5 9/17/2018
If you noticed an absence of 5x5s for the past two weeks it’s because I was off getting married! We are both librarians so, naturally, we had a library-themed wedding and took wedding photos at the Cleveland Public Library. But, because of the small break…
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!
By: Sarah Wilsman, Collection Development Specialist. Did you know that Hispanic Americans are the largest ethnic or racial minority in the United States? 54% of the population in California, Florida and Texas identify as Hispanic which Merriam Webster defines as someone, “of, related to, or being…