Monday 5×5 June 25 2018
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Library friends! I hope those of us who spent the weekend in New Orleans had a fun and productive time in the Big Easy. I’m headed back home to Cleveland today and admittedly really looking forward to seeing…
Public Library eBook & Audiobook Use Goes Viral with Libby App
June 21, 2018 – Millions discovering their local library with free reading app
5 Benefits of Listening To Audiobooks on Libby
By: Rickie Mascia, OverDrive Social Media Specialist Let’s talk audiobooks – mainly because we love them, BUT ALSO because it is National Audiobook Month, which is the perfect time to put audiobooks at the forefront of your library’s digital collection. We would like to introduce…
Popular Magazines Now Available to Libraries on the Libby app
June 20, 2018 – ESPN, The Oprah Magazine, Newsweek and more available digitally from OverDrive through cost-effective, simultaneous-use plan
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…