YA page to screen on Netflix
By: Bethany Porter, Collection Development Specialist. This list is for all you parents out there who cannot take another episode of Caillou, for those of you who are going crazy because it may be too hot or too rainy for your kids to play outside,…
9 of our favorite book scenes of all time
By: Adam Sockel, co-host of the Professional Book Nerds podcast and lover of nonsense. “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” My style of writing is often described around our office as whimsical. I have long been fond of sentences that paint a picture and…
Announcing the winners of our Curated Collection Naming Contest
Throughout the summer, we hosted our Curated Collection Naming Contest and we’re excited to announce the winners in all five of the categories. We received nearly 200 entries and each of the five categories had over 500 votes. The following libraries will receive content credit to…
Saving lives, serving knowledge, Carroll County Public Library
By Jon Kelvey, Carroll County Times, August 6, 2017
OverDrive Training sessions to make the most of your digital collection
By: Briana Johnson-Sims, OverDrive Training Specialist “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain Sometimes getting started can seem like your biggest obstacle, but we’ve got good news for you. The OverDrive Training Team hosts a series of free webcasts the second…
10 books to help you forget about back to school
By: Sasha Zborovsky, Marketing Intern. Summer Flies Away First it was June. Then July crept onto the calendar. And now, even July has slid away. “Back to School” sales are in their prime and you cringe when your English teacher sends you that short, yet…
Dog days of summer reading
This part of the summer is long. Late July marks the point when many of us are sick of the sunshine, the humidity, the film of sunscreen. It’s too hot to bike to the pool, which has lost its refreshing edge anyway. The low hum…
How Librarians are helping to combat America’s Opioid Crisis
By: Adam Sockel, Marketing & Communications Specialist. It’s no secret that the United States has seen a surge in the amount of opioid usage and drug overdoses in recent years. The amount of people who died in 2015 alone from overdosing is up ten times…
OverDrive Adds Chief Sales and Marketing Officer to Lead Continued Expansion in K-12 Market
July 26, 2017 – Industry veteran Adam Eberle to guide OverDrive Education’s growth and strategic partnerships
iCast Hebrew Audiobooks teams with OverDrive to offer audiobooks to schools, public libraries, and higher education institutions worldwide
July 25, 2017 – 700 titles now available for the first time for lending through the OverDrive digital reading platform
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