Introducing Libby Academy
Update 8/9/2021 We are currently making changes and updates to Libby Academy If you have used Libby recently, you’ve likely noticed that she received some fancy upgrades. When opening up the app, you’ll find Libby’s face in the top right corner, representing the options menu….
Magazines return to your OverDrive services
We’re excited to share that libraries can now add magazines to your OverDrive digital collection for readers to enjoy right in Libby or their browser. Magazines come in the OverDrive Read formatting, meaning there is no need to download any third party apps or create…
50% off audiobooks makes June the perfect month to grab your headphones
June is Audiobook Month and we’re celebrating by offering one of our biggest sales of the year. All month long you can save up to 50% on 20,000+ audiobook titles in OverDrive Marketplace. This means no matter how fast your patrons speed up the books to…
Monday 5×5 for June 18, 2018
By Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist It’s ALA Week! If you’re headed to New Orleans, be sure to stop by booth 3715 and say hi to me as I’ll be working the OverDrive booth this weekend (and doing some presentations on what’s new with…
Open a world of reading: meet Sora at ISTE!
Sora is the student reading app designed around the modern student reading experience. It empowers students to discover and enjoy eBooks and audiobooks from their school, for both leisure and class-assigned reading. Inspired by educator and student feedback, Sora was created to excite kids about reading…
OverDrive Instant Digital Card is connecting (and re-connecting) Rochester Public Library to its community
Recently, we shared news that Rochester Public Library would be the pilot library in our Instant Digital Card (IDC) service connection with SirsiDynix. This partnership provides libraries who integrate the service an opportunity to sign-up new users with a full-access library card and not just…
Now fill the world with words, love and pride
Each June, LGBTQ pride Month is celebrated as a way to look back and remember the tipping point of the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Last year, we suggested Stonewall by Ann Bausum and David Carter’s book on the riots with the same name as two…
Monday 5×5 June 11 2018
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing & Communications Specialist With the movie Big turning 30, the Ringer talks about the heart and soul of the Big piano I was six when Big came out and it was one of my favorite films for my entire childhood. I mean, what kid in the…
What Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain taught me
This week we lost two giant members of society as Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain tragically took their own lives. Both of these public figures were wildly successful. Both of them changed the way we approach and think about their respective industries. There are countless…
OverDrive Summer Read is finally here!
OverDrive Summer Read is finally here! The collections have now been added, in eBook format, to OverDrive-powered school websites, in the US and Canada. They will be available, with unlimited access, through July 18th! To learn more about the program, check out our designated Summer…