3 Easy Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month at Your Library
By: Rickie Mascia & Jill Grunenwald, Marketing & Communications Specialists April is National Poetry Month, a literary celebration of a genre that supports expression, encourages feelings, and challenges readers to think beyond the words on a page. Inaugurated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, National…
Kickstart your 2018 reading resolutions with audiobooks
By Rachel Kray, Collection Development Librarian and avid audiobook listener If you’re anything like me (and most other OverDrive staff members), you have a lofty reading goal for 2018. To help you get a jump-start on your reading resolution, we have compiled a list of…
5 Ways to Prepare Your Digital Library for the Holiday Rush
By: Annie Suhy, Collection Development Analyst Get ready. Get set. Hold on to your candy canes. We’re fast approaching one of the highest circulation seasons of the year for your digital collection! It’s no secret among librarians that the holiday boom comes just after Christmas…
Announcing the winners of our Curated Collection Naming Contest
Throughout the summer, we hosted our Curated Collection Naming Contest and we’re excited to announce the winners in all five of the categories. We received nearly 200 entries and each of the five categories had over 500 votes. The following libraries will receive content credit to…
Voting for our Curated Collection Naming Contest is now open
At the beginning of June we announced our OverDrive Curated Collection naming contest and, after receiving loads of wonderful entries, we’re excited to share that voting is now open! Simply click this link to see full list of all entries, sorted by category, and choose your…
Curate your way to a $500 Content Credit
By: Christina Samek, OverDrive Marketing Specialist Seeking all creative curators! If you used the curate feature in OverDrive Marketplace, you’ve probably come up with a funny, intellectual, quippy and/or outright genius title for your collections a time or two. Or perhaps you’ve been waiting for…
#GETCAUGHTREADING : BOOKISH, LITERARY, AND PROUD!
By: Rickie Mascia, OverDrive Social Media Specialist Embrace your bookish habits and Get Caught Reading in your favorite place with your favorite characters. As many fellow readers know…the month of May features the Get Caught Reading Campaign, a time for readers across the nation to…
Short Reads for Weekend Getaways or Staycations
By: Kristin Milks, OverDrive Collection Development Analyst (Ed. Note: Summer is quickly approaching for readers in the U.S. and with it comes warm weather and holiday weekends. As we welcome that time honored tradition of the long weekend we thought it necessary to offer up some…
OverDrive eHighlights: Don’t Get Caught Without the Newest Titles
By: Annie Suhy, Librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. Imagine this scenario. A patron asks if you have the newest title by Jojo Moyes or James Patterson or Roxane Gay or Neil Gaiman. They follow the author on Twitter and have known about the book’s…
Discover Manga with up to 50% off top trending titles
By: Rickie Mascia, OverDrive Social Media Specialist. OverDrive has partnered with Kodansha Advanced Media (KAM) and VIZ Media, the two bestselling manga publishers to provide hundreds of translated (English) manga titles to libraries in North America. Kodansha Advanced Media (KAM), is offering 50% off newly-added…
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