Schools leveraging year-end surpluses to expand eBook & audiobook collections
Hoping to boost your digital collection’s circulation next school year? Are you also looking to build greater educator enthusiasm around…
School Libraries Empower Students
School librarians report that eBooks and audiobooks help them reach sneaky readers, Hi-Lo readers and those seeking the privacy that…
Social Justice 101 titles for J/YA
By: Bethany Porter, Collection Development Specialist. If you’ve visited social media even once the past few months, you’ve noticed the…
For National Poetry Month, a sonnet
If Hollywood is to be believed, students unfailingly hate studying poetry. This is hardly a universal truth. True, some poets…
Shared collections webcast April 5 and May 2
What if sharing meant everyone got more. Budgeting for digital content remains a challenge in schools. Individual schools often cannot…
7 books to better understand the immigrant experience
(Ed. Note: All titles discussed in this post can be purchased in OverDrive Marketplace in this list.) By: Bethany Porter,…
EdTech Buzzwords Breakfast: Differentiation, Blended and Flipped
Even those of us in education struggle to keep up with all the trends and buzzwords in education and technology. We’ve…
Get ready for the SYNC program with our Special Webcast training
SYNC, a free summer audiobook program, returns on April 27th and OverDrive’s Training Team wants to help you get the…
OverDrive Summer Read eBook titles
We are excited to announce the return of our annual OverDrive Summer Read program, designed to encourage your students to…
March Sadness: J/YA books to cry by
The Professional Book Nerds podcast recently celebrated its100th episode! For over a year, The Professional Book Nerds podcast has been…
Webcast: How to Talk to Your School Community About OverDrive
We hope you were able to join us live on February 23 for our special webcast, How to Talk to…
You’ve launched a Shared Collection. Now What?
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist. Last month we told you all about OverDrive’s Shared Collections. We caught up with Independent…
K-5 Quickstart is a year old. Celebrate with free eBooks!
By: Nikka Hronis, Account Specialist. Just one short year ago, we announced the launch of OverDrive’s K-5 QuickStart collection—a reading…
OverDrive Education announces K-12 school spring tour dates
The OverDrive Education team is traveling to 9 states (including 1 in Canada) on our K-12 Fall Tour! We enjoyed…
Best of International Women’s Day 2017
March is Women’s History Month. March 8th was International Women’s Day. If you spent any time on social media yesterday,…