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…
OverDrive Education Summer Read Program Expands in 2017
May 22, 2017 – Thousands of K-12 students in North America will enjoy more free eBooks all summer long
Aligning Digital Reading Resources to Curriculum Objectives
Recently, Tech & Learning and OverDrive Education teamed up to create a white-paper about how districts are leveraging their investments in technology to use eBooks and other digital resources to improve students’ reading proficiency, frequency and achievement. Students benefit from an easy-to-use solution that offers…
OverDrive joins multi-industry business group to save federal library funding
Many of America’s leading information, software, publishing and other businesses as well as multiple national trade associations today unveiled the Corporate Committee for Library Investment to advocate for federal library funding.\ As Congress turns to funding the government beyond next September, CCLI launches against the…
The Digital Bookmobile is back and better than ever
By: Lauren Bajda, Digital Media Events Specialist at OverDrive. The Digital Bookmobile is back, new, and ready to hit the road in June. First stop…Waukesha, Wisconsin! Where We’re Going June 9 – Waukesha Public Library, Waukesha, WI June 12 – Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL June…
Curated Collections Create Circulation Commotion
(Ed. Note: This blog was written by Jessica Russell, Collection Development Manager at Harris County Public Library.) We love OverDrive’s Curated Collection feature here at Harris County Public Library! It’s all of the creative excitement of putting together a book display with none of the…
From foisted to favorite: required reading we love
By: Tiffany Wincek, Account Specialist. Summer required reading lists have begun arriving in Friday folders and email inboxes. Students will certainly sigh in exasperation, but parents might recognize old favorites on that list. Adults tend to recognize that many books on required reading lists are…
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