Readers have borrowed over 3 billion digital books through OverDrive
From the very first library checkout of an ebook through OverDrive back in 2003, we have had one vision: to create a world enlightened by reading. Recently, readers and libraries all over the globe achieved a major milestone when the total number of digital titles…
5 free outreach resources you can start using right now
By: Emily Tara, Integrated Marketing Specialist Whether you’re reading this as a school librarian, administrator or teacher. we know that your days are busy. Between planning, prepping, meetings and classes, your plates are full and you’re lucky if you get those spare moments to refill…
Give your community the best in streaming video with Kanopy
Join us on Wed. Nov. 16 at 2:00 PM ET for a webinar designed to show how libraries serving small communities can bring popular, thoughtful, and engaging entertainment to your patrons’ homes with Kanopy. With the recent trend in households dropping cable and scaling…
Don’t miss our last In The Know of the year!
Join us on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 2pm EST for a special catalog presentation! A Merry and Bright Book Talk with Sourcebooks is our last In the Know presentation of 2022. Register today so you don’t miss the opportunity to be in the know about…
There’s still time to join us for Big Library Read!
Our global ebook club, Big Library Read (BLR), is happening now and there is still time for your readers to join us! Between now and Nov. 16, readers at participating OverDrive libraries can check out the ebook and audiobook of A Snake Falls to Earth…
Top 10 tips from an OverDrive Trainer (2022): K-12 webinar recap
By: Gabby Cregan, Instructional Designer With the final quarter of the year upon us, your Sora training team is feeling nostalgic, so we created our top 10 tips for K-12 school partners to look back fondly at our 2022 webinar season. Keep reading to discover…
November trainings you won’t want to miss
By: Emma Dwyer, Product Trainer Your friends at OverDrive are enjoying the crisp autumn air and the gorgeous changing of the leaves at our Blue Sky Campus location. There’s always something inspirational about this time of year…maybe it’s all those years of back to school…
Get your students ready for Big Library Read!
The first global ebook club is back, with a new title that will be available for free to all schools with Sora from Nov. 2 – 16 in ebook and audiobook format. Big Library Read is a global book club facilitated by OverDrive. It connects…
5 ways to support the writers in your community during NaNoWriMo
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), one of my favorite times of the year. Started in 1999, NaNoWriMo offers a simple but daunting challenge: write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days (I said it was daunting!). I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo several times,…
Wrap up 2022 with a grand finale of savings
Our biggest sale of the year is here and we want to make sure you’re prepared! Between Nov. 14 and Dec. 31, you can save up to 50% off on over 100,000 titles by shopping our End of Year sale in Marketplace. To help you…