By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist These days, technology and classroom are two words that go hand in hand. Students around the world now have access to devices like Chromebooks and tablets that have become a part of their everyday learning environment. Thanks to…
The holidays are, traditionally, the busiest time of the year in the digital library world. Over the next few months countless readers will unwrap new devices and smart phones and discover all the wonderful content they can get from the library for free. With this…
OverDrive and Follett are excited to announce a new integration partnership enabling a simplified user experience for preK-12 schools and districts. Students and staff can now easily access OverDrive content from Destiny with a single click of a consistent open button, eliminating the need to…
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist For as long as there have been schools there have been class-assigned books to be read. Curriculum directors and teachers have meetings to decide what books to teach that year and then students are handed out copies of…
By our friends at Audiofile Magazine. Bahni Turpin’s narration of the author’s first YA title begins dreamily, wistfully as Giselle lies alone in a hospital bed, trying to piece together what has occurred. She and her twin sister, Isabelle, were born holding hands, as they…
By Anne Steiner, District Librarian from Manteca Unified School District and Adam Sockel, Social Media Specialist with OverDrive Manteca Unified School District recently launched their OverDrive digital collection intended to help get their school community excited about reading through their Going Digital project. The district…
By Christina Samek, a Launch Specialist on the OverDrive School Partner Services team. In life, there’s no such thing as an easy button. There’s no lightbulb overhead that indicates an idea is a good one. We are often putting stock into our instincts, following our…
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist It’s hard to believe but the calendar has inched towards October, signifying both the end of summer and back to school time for students of all ages. You can take advantage of our Back to School sale to…
We’re excited to announce the 2015 “In The Classroom” content where schools can win content credit by showing how you’re using and promoting your OverDrive services with your students and your curriculum. One of the best ways to get students reading is enable them to…
The Big Library Read is coming back in October and, due to the overwhelming response to our voting survey, we’ve decided to make this the first ever Big Library Read with two titles. The genre this time around is Young Adult and the winning titles…
Students at Napa Valley Unified School District’s (NVUSD) high schools in Napa and American Canyon, California, will be able to access their math textbooks digitally using iPads, Chromebooks or other devices, beginning this month for the 2015-2016 school year. Thanks to a new partnership with…
While every day here at OverDrive is read an eBook day, the official Read an eBook Day is happening again this year on September 18th. Launched last year as a celebration of modern storytelling, Read an eBook Day is a great opportunity to get the…