End of Year Sale Spotlight: “Fourth Wing” and “Iron Flame”
Quick: what is one of the most popular book circulating at your library right now? If you answered either Fourth Wing or Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros, you are not alone. The first two books in the Empyrean series are flying up both the bestseller…
Give thanks & read: Get November outreach assets on the Resource Center
Tis the season to give thanks – and somehow, it happened in a total flash! One minute, I was walking down aisles overflowing with fresh school supplies. But all I had to do was blink, and suddenly I’m trying to figure out who’s offering the…
Putting the pieces together on library puzzle programming with competitive puzzler Sarah Schuler
According to family lore, when competitive puzzler Sarah Schuler was 4 or 5, she’d wake up early Saturday mornings before anyone else. By the time her parents woke up, the living room coffee table would be covered with all the 100-piece puzzles she completed while…
Cookbooks for the Holidays
By Meghan Volchko, Digital Content Librarian Now that Halloween is over, we can really get down to the business of the (actual) best time of the year. That magical time between mid-November and New Year’s is really the absolute most amazing time of the year….
Find new world language books for students with just a click
One of the key advantages of digital books that we’ve heard about from our partners before is that it’s much simpler to deliver books to students in languages other than English. If you have a large population of English language learners (ELLs) but you’re not…
There’s still time to join us for 10 years of Big Library Read!
For 10 years, readers all over the world have come together for Big Library Read! From cooking up a storm with Art of the Pie to learning the other side of the story in The Other Einstein and celebrating Indigenous voices with A Snake Falls…
Last call for live 2023 training! Skill up for 2024 with magazines & Marketplace essentials.
It’s hard to believe it, but (somehow) the year is almost over. The calendar year, that is. For North American schools, the holidays are less an end point than a waystation – a rest stop before heading into the final (and some might say longest)…
Coming soon! New Metered Access Manager tool
OverDrive Marketplace will soon offer Metered Access Manager, a new tool designed to make managing Metered Access (MA) content easier and more efficient for your library. With Metered Access Manager, you can create customized plans based on specific criteria like format, price, time or checkouts…
Shop Native American Heritage Month books, films, & more
Twice a month our team will assemble a thematic one-stop-shop collection of books, films, lists, and Libby Extras to provide a more seamless shopping experience. This week’s theme is Native America Heritage Month! Celebrated since 1990, the month of November is the perfect time to…
5 must-know dos and don’ts of digital magazines
Your first magazine subscription is almost like a rite of passage. When I was growing up, my mom and I used to share issues of Reader’s Digest – but the rule was, with few exceptions, that she got to read it first. So as a…