By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Join us on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 1:30 PM CT during ALA Annual’s Virtual Conference for our Library Champions Spotlight Session on digital library trends in light of COVID-19. Register here. At this session, three leading librarians…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist June is Pride Month, and while it’s important to read books by LGBTQIA+ authors all year long, Pride Month is a time to truly celebrate the works of LGBTQIA+ artists, authors, and activists. This is especially important for…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist It’s almost time for our next Big Library Read! Our global ebook club will be returning June 22 – July 13 with the ebook and audiobook version of The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason. Set against the backdrop…
By: Adam Sockel, Integrated Marketing Specialist When our Blog Manager, Jill, asked me to write about my favorite narrator, I was extremely excited. Much like so many of my OverDrive co-workers, I spend most days listening to audiobooks on Libby. The second thought I had…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Created to help your library deliver more titles to more readers, OverDrive’s COVID Response Collections will supplement your catalog with titles that can be used for student summer reading programs, digital book clubs, community reading events, and general…
OverDrive stands in solidarity with the African American community in the United States and around the world. We believe that Black Lives Matter. Now is the time for all to listen, learn, reflect and act. As a team, we’re committed to informing and educating ourselves so…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Today on the Professional Book Nerds podcast, co-hosts Jill and Adam share a list of 13 race-related books they have found helpful in examining their own white privilege. These books are meant to inform and educate readers about…
Bonjour! Hola! Nǐ hǎo! Willkommen! Privyet! To help further serve the needs of your diverse reading community, our Libby reading app is going on a world tour with its latest update. Libby’s user interface now supports 9 additional languages. All of the helpful information and…
Layla F. Saad’s instant New York Times bestselling title is being made available at significantly lower prices and in various lending models for OverDrive library partners. When Layla F. Saad converted her viral #MeAndWhiteSupremacy Instagram challenge into a full-length book, it immediately hit bestsellers lists,…
Back in March, we removed auto-checkout and replaced it with Hold Redelivery, a new feature that gives readers more control over their holds and helps libraries maintain more efficient waitlists. At the time, Kobo device users needed to borrow available holds directly in Libby, the…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Just like we all have favorite authors, if you are a big audiobook listener like me you probably have favorite narrators, too. In honor of Audiobook Month in June, over the next few weeks we are going to…
After the United States declared a state of emergency on March 13, many public libraries and most schools closed their physical buildings. Since then, demand for digital content has increased, both among public library readers and students doing remote learning. For the past several years,…
