OverDrive Periodicals drive circulation growth
Earlier this year, OverDrive went live with our digital magazine service, OverDrive Periodicals, offering over 1,000 magazines and newspapers, through our relationship with Barnes and Noble NOOK. The collection includes the best coverage of the top 200 circulating magazines including: Glamour, The New Yorker, USA…
Reviewing The Wilderness of Ruin
I am a self-professed true crime junkie. I drop everything when my TV is tuned to Investigation Discovery. Ann Rule and Harold Schechter are my superheroes. I am also a bit of a history geek; my undergrad degree is in the subject. When history and…
Preordering is now live in Marketplace
OverDrive is happy to announce that support for Preorders in OverDrive Marketplace is now available for all libraries and schools, including consortia. Now, your library’s digital collection has another reason to be the first stop for the hottest pre-release titles. With Preorders, you won’t miss…
Check out the latest Teen & YA titles available through OverDrive!
This month, the Kids & Teens edition of our eHighlights catalog has a mix of exciting new titles, as well as some reissued classics that would both fit wonderfully into your existing collection. E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little are newly available in eBook…
A chat with Big Library Read author Dr. Laura Bates
Last week I had the chance to chat with Dr. Laura Bates, author of the Big Library Read title Shakespeare Saved my Life, via Twitter. Dr. Bates took some time out of her Friday to answer questions curated from readers from around the world. Below…
How digital libraries are helping prisoners across the country
Recently we spoke with Cindy Mclaughlin of the American Prison Data Systems (APDS) about their OverDrive-powered National Corrections Library (NCL), a first of its kind digital library for inmates at correctional facilities across the country. In the short time since the NCL went live they’ve…
Mad Men read alikes
If you’re like most of the OverDrive team, you’re excited to watch the conclusion of the award-winning show “Mad Men,” but perhaps not entirely ready to leave the characters behind just yet. Lucky for you, we have some great lists of books to keep that…
Family-friendly movie favorites you can only stream from your library
If you’re anything like me, when you’re not reading, you like to browse Netflix and see what movies are streaming. I was recently flipping through and trying to find some of my childhood favorites from the ’80s and ’90s and often came up short. I…
Congrats to the Library Journal 2015 Movers & Shakers!
Each year Library Journal honors librarians from around the country for their contributions to the library world. These librarians may be focused on changing the landscaping, innovating, advocating, educating, developing or building their community but regardless of their path it’s clear thet they’re doing work…
Spring break reads for travelers and staycationers alike!
Who doesn’t look forward to Spring Break? After spending all winter cooped up in the cold and snow, it is great to have the opportunity to relax and enjoy that book that we’ve been trying to read, maybe with our toes in the sand if…
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