One Copy/One User, Metered Access & more: A practical guide to purchasing models
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager and Alecia Mouhanna, Marketing & Communications Specialist Meet Denise Brown. Denise is a (fictional) school librarian who serves her entire K-12 community of students and educators at Blue Sky Academy. In addition to managing Blue Sky’s print collection, Denise purchases…
Books written by Presidents
By: Adam Sockel, Integrated Marketing Specialist Election Day in the United States is November 3rd. Visit https://www.usa.gov/voter-registration to register to vote, confirm your registration, and to learn more. Readers in the U.S. and beyond have long been interested in books by and about U.S. presidents….
Try these 3 key Sora reading app features today!
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager; Lisa Mullins, Training Specialist; and Tiffany Wincek, Product Liaison The 2020-2021 school year is underway (or about to begin for many of you), and we know it looks a little different. In this mostly, or even fully, digital world, being…
How OverDrive Professional partners connect with their employees using curated collections
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing & Communications Specialist Curated collections are one of the best tools available in an OverDrive partner’s toolbox. With curated collections, partners can highlight various titles and subjects in their digital libraries. For our OverDrive Professional partners, curated collections are an opportunity…
Resources to implement Sora into your classroom curriculum
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist There are LOTS of cool things we want to tell you about the Sora student reading app. We could go on and on about all the great content you can add to your school or district’s ebook and audiobook collection…
Now you can automate curated collections using BISAC subjects
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing & Communications Specialist Autumn is my favorite season, and while, yes, technically speaking it’s not officially autumn yet, I’m already considering it the most wonderful time of the year. Along with drinking pumpkin spice lattes, my autumnal behaviors include a shift…
Get the latest Libraries Transform Book Pick without waitlists or holds
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing & Communications Specialist A couple weeks ago, we announced the latest Libraries Transform Book Pick title, Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma. This program is a collaboration between OverDrive and the American Library Association (ALA) and is designed to…
Share your love of reading with the new Libby update
by Jill Grunenwald, Marketing & Communications Specialist If you’re anything like me, once you finish a really great book you want to tell everyone about it. This usually means posting about it on social media, but it would be really great if I could provide…
Young Adult and Juvenile ebooks borrowed at a record setting pace from libraries and schools
By: Adam Sockel, Integrated Marketing Specialist As back-to-school arrives with many students learning in virtual classrooms, circulation of young adult and juvenile ebooks across OverDrive digital reading platforms continues to surge. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new way of life for hundreds of millions…
Read an Ebook Day is one week away!
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist It’s already, somehow, September 11th, and that means Read an Ebook Day is only a week away! Every year since 2014, on September 18th, schools and libraries celebrate the joys of digital reading. This year has brought so many challenges…