Digipalooza ’21 Highlights
Last week, OverDrive welcomed more than 1,700 librarians, educators, publishers, and industry leaders to Digipalooza ’21, our 8th Digipalooza and first-ever virtual event. The program spanned three half-days jam packed with panel discussions, presentations from leading librarians and educators sharing best practices, exclusive interviews with…
Important update regarding Libby and the OverDrive app
On May 1, 2023, the OverDrive app will be discontinued. We encourage users to make the switch to Libby, our newer reading app. Libby is made by the same people, with the same goal of connection readers to their library. How this change will impact…
Check out the latest issue of Perspectives on Reading!
We’re excited to announce that the latest issue of Perspectives on Reading is now available and filled with the latest ideas, trends and news from around the world of reading. Don’t miss these stories: A look at what the future holds for school librarians and…
July’s most borrowed new books
In July, we launched a new monthly blog series by showing you June’s top ten most popular books borrowed digitally from the public library on Libby. We’re excited to share July’s top ten with you now. In the list, you’ll find frequent New York Times…
Coming soon: Upcoming Libby enhancements
Thanks to feedback from our partners and users, we are working on several enhancements to Libby. We are so excited about these new features we are giving you a preview now! Coming soon to Libby: Refined navigation bar: We have updated each icon in the…
Manga & Japanese ebooks sale
Between now and August 20th, save 20-50% off on thousands of manga titles and Japanese ebooks! Our manga and Japanese ebooks sale is the perfect time to stock up on content from VIZ Media and Media Do who offers premium catalogs from over a hundred…
Upcoming Penguin Random House titles you won’t want to miss
Digipalooza ‘21 isn’t the only thing on the horizon! Soon it will be autumn and with it comes some of fall’s biggest new titles. We’re excited to highlight some of Penguin Random House’s upcoming releases. Library partners looking to add these audiobooks to their OverDrive…
Upcoming Recorded Books titles you won’t want to miss
Digipalooza ‘21 isn’t the only thing on the horizon! Soon it will be autumn and with it comes some of fall’s biggest new titles. We’re excited to highlight some of Recorded Books’s upcoming releases. Library partners looking to add these audiobooks to their OverDrive collection…
5 more reasons to register for Digipalooza ‘21
Digipalooza ’21 is less than two weeks away and we don’t want our library partners to miss out on this professional development opportunity. This year, Digipalooza ’21 is a three half-day virtual conference, but like all of our past Digipalooza events, is a unique blend…
An important and timely message to our Sora partners using Clever
On August 1, 2021, the school app dashboard, Clever, has scheduled a change in their integration service that will disable content access levels and access to Advantage account purchases in the Sora app. We are asking our school partners to replace Clever’s single sign-on (SSO)…