Back to school 2018 buzzwords glossary
By: Sarah Wilsman, Content Specialist. The modern classroom has plenty of traditional terms and plenty of new-tech lingo. But there are also a lot of nuanced and interpersonal terms that parent and teachers should know. Want to learn more? Check out the suggested titles. BLENDED LEARNING…
New Marketing Kits to Celebrate Your Digital Collection
By: Annie Suhy, OverDrive Outreach Specialist There’s a lot to celebrate in the digital literary land this month. Cue Kool & The Gang. ? Ceeeelebrate good times, come on!? Pass the good times and the good vibes along to your patrons by letting them know…
Back to school: Save big on books for beginning readers
In OverDrive Marketplace we’re currently running our Back to School Sale where libraries and schools can save up to 50% on more than 20,000 titles. Within the sale you’ll find curated collections for young readers, educators and fans of young adult and middle grade fiction….
YA trends: coming of age stories with strong female characters
By: Sarah Wilsman, Content Specialist. Coming of age novels about teens who perceive themselves as “misfits” are gaining popularity, right on time for the tween/teen awkwardness of back to school. The demand for these underrepresented stories has been highlighted in other media, in the success…
Digital learning by the numbers
Digital learning isn’t about the newest gamification trend or the best tech interface. Learning successes are measured by how well digital tools are used, and what kinds of positive outcomes result. In schools today, it’s not a matter of if digital is adopted, but when….
Monday 5×5 8/20/2018
By: Jill Grunenwald Instagram star has her book recalled due to potentially dangerous ingredients Awkward. (But seriously, Rodale — publisher of Tales from a Forager’s Kitchen — is offering refunds.) Tor has the transcript of VE Schwab’s 2018 JRR Tolkien lecture on Fantasy Literature My…
Librarians and legislators join forces at OverDrive’s Blue Sky Campus
Last week, OverDrive and the American Library Association partnered to host dozens of federal, state, county and local legislators and business leaders for a “Libraries Transform” program on libraries and workforce development at our world headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. This first-ever regional event featured a…
Provide the best of independent authors to your patrons for free with SELF-e Select webinar
We are happy to announce that we are extending the deadline to enroll in the SELF-e Select on OverDrive pilot program to August 31. As many of our library partners already know, there are so many wonderful independent authors waiting to be discovered by patrons,…
Attract new users with the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter
By: Jill Grunenwald Twenty years ago, readers of all ages in the United States and Canada were introduced to The Boy Who Lived. In the upcoming months, fans old and new of J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of…
Curating Collections for Your Digital Library
By: Courtney Sveda, Training Specialist Did you know you can customize the collections featured on your OverDrive website and in Libby? Yes! Curation allows you to highlight format-specific content, newly added titles, or themed lists to promote library events or popular topics. These curated lists…