OverDrive’s “Instant Digital Card” brings thousands of new users to the library
By: Adam Sockel, Marketing Communications Specialist At Digipalooza this past August, we announced a pilot program called Instant Digital Card (IDC). This innovative service is the fastest and easiest way to a library card. Readers can sign up for a library card and begin borrowing…
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist. October is Dyslexia Awareness Month and OverDrive is proud to offer reading solutions for every kind of reader. OverDrive is the only US eBook provider to offer the dyslexic font option as a reading setting. OverDrive users can select this…
Readers from 21,000 libraries and schools will uncover “The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett”
Oct. 13, 2017 – “Big Library Read” global digital book club enables Chelsea Sedoti’s debut novel to be borrowed and discussed for free
Books for our favorite 5 fall days and moods
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist. It’s not a secret to anyone who knows me that fall is my favorite season. It’s ironic that I live where fall exists only in a finite, miniscule window between SPF 9,000 and shoveling for dear life so I have…
Dyslexia Awareness Marketing kit, now at the Resource Center
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist October is Dyslexia Awareness Month and OverDrive is proud to offer reading solutions for every kind of reader. OverDrive is the only US eBook provider to offer the dyslexic font option as a reading setting. OverDrive users can select this…
Uncover The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett now that Big Library Read is live
By: Adam Sockel, Marketing Communications Specialist Hawthorn was enjoying a standard, if mundane, teenage life when the disappearance of Lizzie Lovett turned her life upside down. At first, Hawthorn doesn’t get why everyone is so hung up on a former popular girl gone missing but as…
Readers from 21,000 libraries and schools will uncover “The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett”
Oct. 12, 2017 – “Big Library Read” global digital book club enables Chelsea Sedoti’s debut novel to be borrowed and discussed for free
Getting the most out of your OverDrive reading history
By: Adam Sockel, Marketing Communications Specialist Last week, we released an exciting update to our digital library websites that gives users access to their reading history. Often requested by libraries and patrons, the history allows users to track what they’ve read so they can make decisions about…
Evolution of edtech
By: Andrea Sieracki, Account Specialist. With concerns about screen time and teen tech addiction, technology gets a bad rap, even in the classroom. Take the long view, however, and it’s clear that technology is nothing new in education. Teachers have used tools for instruction since…
Happy Fall, Y’all – October’s Live Library Webcasts
By: Courtney Sveda, OverDrive Training Specialist With the ushering in of autumn comes all our favorite fall activities- watching football, picking apples, and of course, cozying up with a blanket and a delightful book. Here at OverDrive, we want to make sure you and your…
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