Managing your Metered Access titles just got easier
Have you said this: “How am I going to manage all of our metered access content easily and stay on top of expiring content without taking a lot of staff time or going crazy?” We’ve heard your feedback on managing Metered Access content and fulfilling…
“Zuckerbook” review: The End of Power
Mark Zuckerberg is a visionary in many things, always looking to the next hot trend to get all of us addicted to, which is why he made such news two weeks ago when he announced his newest venture: reading. His Facebook group A Year of…
NEW! eHighlights catalog moves to a new location
Thank you for following our various eHighlights catalogs on this blog. To make it easier to review title selections, we have created a new Catalogs page to better feature our new, noteworthy, and hot titles each month. Along with our Recommended Lists page, the Catalogs…
MGM and Warner Bros. gems
If your library hasn’t started using a Cost Per Circ (CPC) plan, what are you waiting for? CPC plans give patrons simultaneous access to hundreds of fantastic streaming videos from Warner Bros. and MGM. Here is just a small sample of the great titles…
Children’s eBook sales surge in 2014 in public libraries and schools through OverDrive
Library spending on children’s, juvenile, and young adult eBooks in 2014 grew by 48% over 2013. Helping drive this dramatic growth was OverDrive’s 2014 launch of narrated eBooks and highly-illustrated best-selling children’s titles using open industry-standard EPUB3 and OverDrive Read. These popular children’s eBook titles…
Multilingual resources for your digital library
Did you know that it is free and easy to offer a multilingual interface for your OverDrive collection? Connect with new users who prefer to browse and read in their native language or help those learning a foreign language get hands-on experience with site translations…
TV Show Read-Alikes
Looking to add some new titles to your digital collection? Check out our TV Show Read-Alikes. Handpicked by our staff librarians, these lists can be very helpful in finding popular, high-circulating content that your patrons are sure to enjoy. These would make great curated collections…
Collection Highlights: World Languages
Do you have any Spanish, Chinese, or Japanese speakers (or learners) in your community? If so, make sure to check out our World Languages edition of OverDrive Collection Highlights, above, where we share some of our favorite Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese-language content for sale in OverDrive…
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