4 ways to keep promoting your digital library during the COVID-19 pandemic
By: Annie Suhy, Outreach Specialist If there was a word to describe 2020, pivot would be high on the list. We’ve all become experts at pivoting from the year’s best-laid plans. From how we work to how our children learn to how we interact with…
VIDEO: AASL School Leader Collaborative administrators on the impact of school librarians
As sponsor of the “AASL School Leader Collaborative: Administrators & School Librarians Transforming Teaching and Learning” program, OverDrive Education proudly supports school libraries and librarians and their essential role in teaching and learning. Check out a few great videos below for Collaborative administrators’ reflections on…
The most borrowed ebooks and audiobooks since Libby launched
By: Adam Sockel, Integrated Marketing Specialist Since Libby, our award-winning one-tap reading app, launched in June of 2017, millions of readers have borrowed hundreds of millions of digital books from public libraries around the world. Now, with COVID-19’s impact as well as advancements in digital…
Big Library Read is back with The Darwin Affair
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Big Library Read (BLR) is back, and this time we bring you The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason. Set against the backdrop of London in the summer of 1860, The Darwin Affair is a page-turning mystery that will…
Available now at no cost – Community Read: Own Voices & Diversity Books for Students
In our ongoing effort to help support schools’ increasing demand for digital, OverDrive is donating Community Read: Own Voices and Diversity Books for Students, a new collection of simultaneous access ebooks available at no cost to our school partners. This set, which includes more than…
How Stratford School (CA) made the leap to distance learning with Sora
Contributed by: Keira Pride, Manager of Library Services at Stratford School Stratford School is an independent private school with 1,200 middle school students across eight campuses in California. For the past two years, Stratford’s library team has been using the Sora reading app for our…
Community Read Collection alert: Duke Classics no cost sim use plan extended
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist During the COVID-19 pandemic, we know that your library has worked hard to provide remote reading and learning resources to the kids and teens in your community. And with school plans still in flux, your library will continue…
How 2020 has changed our reading lives: Part 2
By: Tiffany Wincek, Product Liaison PART 1 can be found here. “I’m not one who sets reading goals. Unless it was for a free personal pan pizza. Remember the BOOK IT! program? Anyone? Turns out it’s still a thing… I tend to read whatever and…
How 2020 has changed our reading lives: Part 1
by Tiffany Wincek, Product Liaison This year has been nothing if not turbulent. For months, our daily schedules, habits, and thoughts have turned upside down, which means our reading lives have changed, too. Below, Team OverDrive shares how their reading lives are different in 2020….
Drive a Polestar 2? Now you can stream Libby!
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist Polestar 2 is launching as the first car in the world to have an Android Automotive OS-powered infotainment system and our award-winning reading app Libby is included! The Android Automotive OS system includes a selection of Google apps…