Newly Updated Digital Bookmobile Kicks Off 2017 North American Tour
June 8, 2017 – Traveling exhibit showcases popularity of eBooks, audiobooks and more from your local library
10 books you never knew you needed to read before college
By: Sasha Zborovsky, Marketing Intern. We all remember our high school literary staples. Who could forget reading The Great Gatsby or Scarlet Letter at a tiny desk in a 10th grade English class? These books are important and unforgettable; however, in their flurry to finish…
Curate your way to a $500 Content Credit
By: Christina Samek, OverDrive Marketing Specialist Seeking all creative curators! If you used the curate feature in OverDrive Marketplace, you’ve probably come up with a funny, intellectual, quippy and/or outright genius title for your collections a time or two. Or perhaps you’ve been waiting for…
The latest OverDrive training sessions perfect for your staff
By: Briana Johnson-Sims, OverDrive Training Specialist We’re in an exciting time at OverDrive. This June, we’re inviting new users to meet Libby, our new, one-tap reading app. In addition, we’re offering a new, live webcast series to give you more of what you need to…
Browse OverDrive’s Millions of Free eBooks, Audiobooks & Videos with Resources for Improving Financial Literacy
By Adam West, Badcredit.org, May 31, 2017
OverDrive to Offer Cost-per-Circ Model for eBooks and Audiobooks to Library and School Partners
Simon & Schuster Audio, Baker Publishing and Lerner Publishing among the first to provide libraries and schools additional options to manage their digital book collections By: Hadie Bartholomew, OverDrive Communications Manager OverDrive has played a pivotal role in digital library lending and its development by…
New monthly K-12 webcasts start June 19th!
Join OverDrive for a series of live monthly webcasts specifically designed for you, our administrators, classroom teachers, media specialists, and school librarians. We’ll discuss the basics of shopping in Marketplace, the student user experience, and strategies for talking to your school community about your OverDrive service….
A love letter to books
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive Marketing & Communications Specialist Stephen King describes books as, “Uniquely portable magic.” That may be true, but I like to think of them as kindling, metaphorically of course. Each book you read is cholk-full of bits of kindling for taking your…
Penguin Random House is giving away 3,000 digital copies of Radical Hope to libraries by Carolina De Robertis for free
OverDrive is excited to announce that our friends at the Penguin Random House Library Marketing team are giving away 3,000 copies of ALA-award-winning author Carolina De Robertis’ new book for free. Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times is a collection of…
Summer blockbuster movie tie-ins
By: Annie Suhy, OverDrive Collection Development Analyst All the best stories begin in a book. It seems that film directors agree based on this summer’s ‘page to screen’ lineup. Many devoted readers will be making the trek to the theater to see if the fresh…
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