This part of the summer is long. Late July marks the point when many of us are sick of the sunshine, the humidity, the film of sunscreen. It’s too hot to bike to the pool, which has lost its refreshing edge anyway. The low hum…
By: Beau Livengood, OverDrive Account Specialist Costco got us. We went in for 5 specific things, but then they have that featured item that grabs your attention and you just can’t pass it up (kind of like a good curated collection). This time it was…
By: Sasha Zborovsky, Marketing Intern. July 18th is Nelson Mandela Day. We associate many words with him. Freedom. History. Equality. However, this is a day that, to me, invokes the word “hero.” The Superhero The term “hero” is subject to varying definitions. Personally, I have…
By: Bethany Porter, Collection Development Specialist. I rarely reread books throughout most of the year, but every summer I take it upon myself to reread a handful of my favorites. If you’re an educator or a librarian who works with kids throughout the school year,…
By: Bethany Porter, Collections Development Specialist. World UFO Day was earlier this month, so of course members of the OverDrive Education Team wanted to celebrate! Many of us used to be children’s librarians or school librarians before joining OverDrive, so where there is an excuse…
By: Briana Johnson-Sims, OverDrive Training Specialist What’s hot in Cleveland this August? Digipalooza 2017, of course! Our conference is jam-packed with great events, including a keynote from Cokie Roberts, evening socials, and morning yoga. But there’s even more for those who choose to come early…
Looking for a quick, simple way to increase your professional development time this summer? Register for our July OverDrive student user experience webcast. This 30-minute session will introduce the fastest way to get your students reading eBooks and listening to audiobooks from your digital library…
By: Sasha Zborovsky, Marketing Intern. For avid readers, changing seasons mean only one thing: in winter, one reads inside and in summer, one reads outside. As much as I love to pair my eBook with a warm fireplace and a mug of hot chocolate, there…
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist. I am a huge fan of bright colors. I love pops of red, blue, and green. My design aesthetic is very much the brighter the better because that’s what catches the eye! And that’s the exact approach we took with…
More than 700 people attended the OverDrive Education’s in-booth sessions at ISTE earlier this week, the busiest we’ve seen. Particularly popular was Using public domain eBooks for the public good: learning with Project Gutenberg. Partner Lisa Kulka, Library Specialist at Northside ISD, walked attendees through…
By: Sasha Zborovsky, OverDrive Marketing Intern National I Forgot Day was earlier this week, so naturally, OverDrive forgot to post a blog to commemorate this often-overlooked holiday. The Holiday National I Forgot Day celebrates all the times we forgot to wish our third cousin a…
Successful digital learning demands both flexibility and customization. OverDrive Education embraces both, with a custom-built reading platform that supports differentiated instruction, English Language Learning, Hi-Lo literacy instruction and blended learning. In the 2016-2017 school year, more than 2,500 K-12 schools joined over 15,000 OverDrive-powered schools…