By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Over the last few months, readers looking for some fun escapist romance reads have been enjoying the titles provided through Sourcebooks Casablanca as part of their Head Over Heels Romance Romance Reading Group. This collection features one romance…
by Lauren Bajda, Training Specialist On June 30th, OverDrive hosted a live webinar, Supporting Your Digital Users. What began as a partner request (shout-out to Timberland Regional Library, WA), turned into an interactive webinar with best practices to support your digital users. In case you…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist New: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo now available Knowing that our library partners want to provide antiracism and social justice titles to their patrons, we are launching a new program called Black Lives Matter:…
By: Adam Sockel, Integrated Marketing Specialist As the calendar turns to summer in the northern hemisphere, stay-at-home orders are beginning to ease around the world. While larger crowds and public gatherings remain unsafe, people are beginning to plan road trips as a means to get…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist OverDrive, in collaboration with the American Library Association, will soon be bringing you the second Libraries Transform Book Pick! This program is designed to connect readers at U.S. public libraries and allow them to read the same book…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist We are excited to announce that our catalog of audiobooks from Recorded Books has expanded! Many of these titles have never before been available to library partners and we are thrilled to bring them to you and your…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Back in March, Penguin Random House announced a change to their digital content lending policies. These additional purchasing options on PRH-published ebook and audiobook titles were created in response to COVID-19 and allowed libraries and schools to better…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist In response to the unprecedented demand for digital books for your readers, OverDrive is adding a growing collection of unlimited simultaneous use ebooks and audiobooks, at no cost to your library, to help you deliver more titles to…
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Last updated 06/16/2020 @ 10:00 am ET NEW: Now available: COVID Response Collections for libraries Now available free to libraries without waitlist or holds: Black Lives Matter titles to read, listen, learn and grow As mentioned on March…
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…
