By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist February doesn’t get the attention it deserves. For such a short month, it’s full of opportunities to celebrate. It’s Black History Month, a time for a little romance, a time to get motivated to focus on the rest of the…
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist. After thirteen years of classes and a year abroad in Paris, you would think speaking French is as easy for me as me brosser les dents*. Without daily practice, however, my foreign language skills skew more toward “occasional party trick”…
Sora is a K-12 app designed around the modern reading experience that empowers students and educators with access to the most extensive and diverse catalog of ebooks and audiobooks available to schools. Whether students are reading for class or fun, Sora makes it easy: Powerful…
The 2019 TCEA Convention & Exposition runs February 4 -8, 2019, where thousands of educators, campus and district-level administrators, curriculum and technology leaders, teachers, librarians, and champions of ed tech will discover innovative strategies and best practices for integrating technology into their schools, classrooms, and…
Yesterday was Library Shelfie Day, and we collected the best of the best from our OverDrive Team! Most of my reading time these days is spent on fiction with our 3-year old twins. They’re not huge fans of history and biographies (yet ?). ~Beau L….
For nearly 40 years, the Future of Education Technology Conference has gathered the most dynamic and creative education professionals from around the world for an intensive, highly collaborative exploration of new technologies, best practices and pressing issues. Its impact has been felt by thousands of…
We asked team OverDrive what books they were excited about in 2019. As a building full of readers and librarians, you can imagine the response. Here are some of our favorites: We’re excited for gripping mysteries, one in particular I cannot wait for Two Can…
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist. When you are in the business of books and in the company of several book lovers, you await every book-to-movie adaptation with equal parts anticipation and dread. Because, when you really love a book there’s nothing better than seeing your…
By: Sarah Wilsman, Collection Development Specialist. Emerging readers are not beginning readers anymore. They have mastered basic phonics and learned frequently used words and phrases and are now improving their reading comprehension skills. At this stage of their reading development it is important to provide emerging…
By: Sarah Wilsman, Collection Development Specialist. The Black Lives Matter movement is celebrating four years in formal existence. It started out as a black-centered political will and movement building project turned chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene when…
By: Tiffany Wincek, Account Manager. Last December, I reflected on my 2017 reading failures. I’d only read 11 books that year and the former English teacher inside of me felt deep shame. I knew I could do better—I’d always been a regular reader, but I…
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist. It’s that time of year, where we aim to spread a little cheer. It’s also time for the students to head on home So in the spirit of the holidays, we thought we’d write you educators a snappy little poem. Don’t…
