Ease into Autumn with Sora and Marketplace Training
By: Lisa Mullins, Product Trainer The promise of autumn is in the air at OverDrive’s Blue Sky Campus. Crisp mornings, changing leaves…and fall webinars! That’s right–we’re hosting daily live webinars on the essentials of Sora and Marketplace through mid-October. Won’t you join us? You can…
Books unite us.
For forty years, the book community has recognized Banned Books Week. This annual event is an opportunity for librarians, booksellers, teachers, publishers and book lovers to celebrate the freedom to read. Banned Books Week is especially important these days as that right to read is…
Classroom mantras for changing times
By: Tiffany Wincek, Product Liaison I refuse to believe September is almost over. In childhood, the beginning of any new school year brought excitement colored by anxious chaos: finding a new backpack with an adequate number of perfectly sized pockets, stressing about being forced to…
What’s coming to (and what’s leaving) Kanopy in October
This October, get ready for new movies and TV shows coming to Kanopy! Want to hear more about what’s coming to Kanopy? Register for Kanopy’s Q3 Town Hall to hear updates including the arrival of the BBC to Kanopy, upcoming conferences, accessibility updates, and more. Kanopy…
5 Sora tips for parents from parents
By: Gael Reyes, Product Support Specialist We’ve already shared some of our top Sora reading app tips for parents in a previous blog, but this time we want you to hear from the real experts who use Sora with their children every day. Whether you’re…
Tag your heart out with Libby
Libby Tags have gotten an upgrade! Your readers can use tags in Libby to organize books however they’d like, from making lists of books to share with friends or tracking books they want to read to subscribing to favorite magazines. Tags now have a dedicated…
What are you reading for Read an Ebook Day?
Read an Ebook Day is only a couple days away and we can’t wait to spend the day curled up on the couch with an ebook. Ebooks have been loved by libraries and readers for years, but over the last few years in particular, digital…
NEW: 80+ titles added to the All Access Comics package
Fans of our All Access Comics package for schools now have over 80 new Marvel-ous (and more!) reasons to say hooray. We’ve added new titles to our premium package of simultaneous-use comics from publishers like Disney, Dark Horse, Marvel, Image Comics and IDW*. Students can…
Be In the Know with DC Comics!
Join us on Wed., Oct. 5 at 1pm EST for an exclusive look at the comics and graphic novels genre with a special presentation from DC Comics. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear about DC’s new releases and fan favorites with an action-packed list of…
Classical Music Month? There’s a Libby Extra for that!
From a childhood introduction to Peter and the Wolf thanks to my preschool teacher mother to listening to the Nutcracker Suite every December, or playing selections from Stravinsky’s Firebird in high school concert band to even writing a paper on Holst’s The Planets in college…