Special webcast – Drive your library’s digital circulation
By Courtney Sveda Happy almost-summer! June’s special webcast, Drive Digital Circulation by Selecting, Curating, and Marketing for Your Community, has a little something for everyone. No matter your role in supporting your library’s digital collection, this webcast, presented by OverDrive’s Training team, will provide some…
Introducing SELF-e Select on OverDrive
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist As more authors embrace independent and self-publishing, libraries are also embracing the move to include more indie eBooks in their collections. As many of our library partners already know, there are so many wonderful independent authors waiting to…
Monday 5×5 for June 4, 2018
by Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Happy June and welcome back to another edition of the 5×5! We are now less than three weeks away from ALA (not panicking, not panicking) and I’m back with another roundup of articles you may have missed last…
How eBooks reduce stress & lighten backpacks
Demands on modern students are overwhelming. There are schedules, extracurriculars and group projects to manage. There are external constraints, like small lockers, outdated textbooks and individual challenges students bring to school every day. There is so much to track, balance and worry about, and this…
Monday 5×5 May 28 2018
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist It’s Memorial Day here in the United States, which means you may not be reading this until Tuesday, but like I’ve been doing for the past couple weeks, here’s a roundup of interesting links you may have missed…
The top 10 Libby and OverDrive questions answered
With all of the exciting updates to Libby and your OverDrive service as well as the constant stream of new books being added to your digital library, it’s understandable that your users may have some questions. Can I download the files? What about Kindle? Or…
New K-12 webcast! Engaging Students in the Classroom with OverDrive
By: Courtney Sveda, Training Specialist Congratulations on a successful 2017-2018 school year; we hope you’ll be able to take a well-deserved break. For those of you still in session or who are taking this time to start preparing for the new school year already, we’re…
What’s on My Nightstand – The Goth Girls Edition
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist The days are getting longer – ugh, the worst – and that means hours of hiding in my windowless room far away from the cloudless skies, the SPF 100s, the cheery beach umbrellas…the people. Thank badness for World Goth Day…
The ALA annual conference is coming and we have exciting things to share
On June 22, America’s librarians will gather in New Orleans for the annual American Library Association Conference. Team OverDrive will be there sharing exciting updates about Libby, our Instant Digital Card service, and the return of digital Magazines to your OverDrive digital library. Laissez les bons…
2 YA CHARACTERS SURE TO BRING ANY RELUCTANT READER BACK TO THE BOOKS
Here at OverDrive, we pride ourselves on our book nerdery and borderline obsessive integration of literature in our daily lives. Honestly, it’s pretty rare to walk by a group of coworkers in the office and hear them chatting about anything other than books. We work with public…