The Digital Bookmobile Team is now offering virtual patron training
By: Joe Skelley, Marketing & Events Specialist After canceling the 2020 Digital Bookmobile tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Digital Bookmobile team quickly pivoted to offer virtual Libby training webinars to libraries who had their tour stops canceled. After the great success of these…
Join OverDrive Education at #ISTE20
The 2020 edition of the ISTE Conference & Expo is here! While the all-virtual edtech conference definitely looks a little different this year, OverDrive Education is still serving up the same great slate of programming to keep you in the loop on the latest and…
From ALA Virtual: Digital library trends from COVID-19
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist As the nation’s libraries closed their physical branches in March in response to the global pandemic, patrons increasingly turned to the libraries’ digital collection of ebooks and audiobooks On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, leading librarians Steven V. Potter…
OverDrive’s 2020 Libraries Transform Award winners
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Last week, Team OverDrive and thousands of public librarians gathered in Nashville for the biannual Public Library Association conference! Along with sharing all the new services and features available on OverDrive, including Public Library CONNECT and Hold Redelivery,…
OverDrive’s ALA Midwinter Preview: Empower Lifelong Reading
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist The library world will be coming together this weekend in the city of Brotherly Love for the annual Midwinter conference. Team OverDrive will be there, sharing updates about Libby, exciting news about our upcoming Hold Redelivery service and…
On the road with OverDrive Education
By Lisa Mullins, Product Support Specialist OverDrive strives to create “a world enlightened by reading,” and what better way to accomplish this than to meet our partners to discuss current trends in reading and edtech? One of the attributes that makes OverDrive stand out is…
OverDrive Summer Read wraps on a record year
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist Back-to-school season is upon us and in full swing here at OverDrive. The Back-to-School Sale is going on now in Marketplace. We’ve updated the Resource Center with materials to help you welcome students and keep Sora in mind all year…
Toronto Public Library’s list of things to do in Toronto during Digipalooza Academy!
Digipalooza Academy is almost here and we can’t wait for you to join us in either Toronto or Pasadena. Since we introduced Digipalooza back in 2006, we’ve always had our library partners come to our hometown in Cleveland, but in 2019 we decided to take…
Juneteenth 2019: Titles to Celebrate Freedom
By: Sarah Wilsman, Education Content Specialist Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the end of slavery. Held annually on June 19th, the holiday celebrates African-American heritage and is recognized in most states with events and parades. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation…
FETC sessions for every educator; books for every student
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…