What we’re excited to READ in 2016
By Kristin Milks, Librarian and Collection Development Analyst at OverDrive. We here at OverDrive know what you really need: more books on your ‘To Read’ list! Lucky for you, we’re going to tell you what we cannot wait to load on our eReading devices. Humor…
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month
Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month are right around the corner and we wanted to take a look at all the great content, we here at OverDrive, have in order to fill out your digital collection during this important time of year….
The Oscars of Children’s & YA Lit: The ALA 2016 Youth Media Awards
By Annie Suhy, A Librarian and Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive. The American Library Association has once again announced the winners of some of the most prestigious awards in children’s literature. Along with being a fantastic honor, these awards almost guarantee literary prominence for a…
Looking back on ALA Midwinter
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist This past weekend Team OverDrive had the privilege of joining many of our library partners in Boston for the annual midwinter American Library Association conference. The weekend was full of productive meetings and presentations as well as…
The books that got Team OverDrive reading
By Christina Samek, an OverDrive Launch Specialist We are a team of book nerds. This is not news–we love books, we know books. But, it wasn’t always this way. We were children once, figuring it all out. Words were shaping the trajectory of our…
Rebel, Rebel Reader
By Jill Grunenwald, librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. I was born in 1981 and my introduction to Grammy winning recording artist David Bowie was not through the numerous studio albums he had already produced by that point but was actually courtesy of the 1986…
Reviewing American Housewife by Helen Ellis
By Rachel Kray, Librarian and Collection Development Analyst at OverDrive First off, let me just say one thing: this book is hysterical. I was reading this while I was traveling and could not contain my laughter on an airplane and a train. Yes, I was…
Record Number of Libraries Surpass One Million eBook and Audiobook Checkouts in 2015
Jan. 7, 2016 – Digital book lending continues significant growth, with audiobooks increasing fastest
33 library systems surpass one million checkouts in 2015
Yesterday we shared the record breaking stats from 2015 as libraries across the world saw circulation increases from their digital collections. Today we’re excited to announce that another record was broke in 2015 as 33 separate library systems across North America circulated over one million…
Download episode 3 of the Professional Book Nerds podcast!
By Jill Grunenwald, a Librarian, Collection Development Specialist and host of the Professional Book Nerds Podcast Working in the book business, we here at OverDrive looooove books. Being an active reader helps us do our jobs better, especially here in the Collection Development department because…
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