All the new Streaming Video titles available from OverDrive
By: Rachel Woods, Librarian and Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive Pssst… Yeah, you. Do you like to watch… videos? You do? Well, you’ve come to the right place! For those of you who may have missed last month’s post, this is our new Streaming Video…
Viz Media, Marvel, DC and the Walking Dead… OH MY!
By: Sheila Henline, Librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. My inner geek in is OverDrive! (Pun intended) This month at OverDrive we welcome the select catalog of VIZ Media, you know these guys (and gals), they publish some awesome manga titles including Naruto. Additionally, our…
Find your inner explorer with the new Readers’ Advisory collection
By: Jim Monastra, OverDrive Account Specialist. You are invited to participate in OverDrive’s next Readers’ Advisory project, “Armchair Explorers.” We’ll be featuring titles about adventure and exploration, with two separate collections available for your OverDrive site – one collection that focuses on titles for adults,…
Create Reading Happiness: celebrate summer blockbusters with Page to Screen books and streaming video
Summer is traditionally when Hollywood rolls out its blockbuster movies. The big budget, tent pole films we all enjoy with a bucket of buttery popcorn and a smile on our face. While we fill the theaters to laugh, cry and be endlessly entertained, there’s a…
Reviewing the mysterious The Gallery by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
The roaring ‘20s don’t feel so fun for Martha, who has to start working as a maid for the wealthy Sewell family on the Upper East Side of New York City. Martha has heard the stories about crazy Rose Sewell who used to be a…
More K-12 Students Reading on OverDrive Digital Reading Platform
June 27, 2016 – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children most popular digital novel set used in schools
Get popular fiction and LGBT content up to 50% off during the June Extravaganza
All month, we’ve been promoting the ability to save big on loads of content from OverDrive. The June Extravaganza Sale in OverDrive Marketplace with thousands of titles marked down anywhere from 25-50% off their normal sale price. Within the sale you’ll find eBooks, audiobooks and…
OverDrive Helps Thousands of Students Make the Digital Shift to eBooks at School
At the 2016 International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE) OverDrive will share updates on the technologies that have led to a record number of students using digital books at school. In the 2015-16 school year, approximately six million students had access to digital books,…
OverDrive’s Innovative Digital Resources Help Librarians Reach New Readers
June 23, 2016 – Powerful curation options give the librarian more control to merchandise digital books
Join the Big Library Read by borrowing A Murder in Time
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist Starting today until July 7, users from over 20,000 libraries around the world will be participating in the Big Library Read, our global digital book club. Readers at participating libraries can borrow A Murder in Time without wait…
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