Add Cleveland to your 2017 plans
By: Melissa Marin, OverDrive Marketing Specialist You may have heard that 2016 has been a good year for Cleveland. The Cavs won their first NBA title. The Indians are leading in the World Series (sorry, Chicago area libraries). Our American Hockey League team, the Monsters,…
OverDrive Special Webcast: Building a Dynamic Digital Spanish Collection
On Thursday, November 10 at 3 pm (EST) OverDrive will host a special live webcast on how to build a dynamic and successful Spanish collection in your digital library. OverDrive has tens of thousands of titles available from authentic Spanish language authors and publishers and…
The Best in BOOOOOks for Horror Lovers
By: Christina Samek, OverDrive Marketing Specialist You’re alone, reading your favorite story by the fire, tucked in for the night. You are comfortable, trusting the warm, quiet of your home. You think you’re safe. You reach for your tea, finally cooled down enough for you…
Building a Westworld curated collection for your digital library
By Jill Grunenwald, librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst (Ed. Note: You can see the full collection of Westworld readalikes here.) Books are great for escapism, about completely immersing yourself in a fictional world. But what if you could really immerse yourself? Like, live in that…
Valid library card all you need to access library eBooks through OverDrive
OverDrive has become aware of some misinformation circulating about OverDrive’s services. We’d like to take this opportunity to clarify our policy: To borrow an eBook or audiobook from the library through OverDrive, only a valid library card is required. An OverDrive account is an optional…
Reading lists to celebrate #LGBT Awareness Month
By: Jill Grunenwald, Librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst October marks LGBT History Month in the United States, with October 11th being National Coming Out Day. Here at OverDrive, we recognize the importance of celebrating the tremendous civil rights strides the LGBT community has made over…
Get the most out of your digital library with these OverDrive webinars
By: Briana Johnson-Sims, Training Specialist. Whether you’re new to OverDrive or an OverDrive veteran, you can always benefit from knowing more about purchasing content and how your users enjoy it. That’s why the training team offers two monthly sessions: Marketplace Basics and The OverDrive User Experience. In Marketplace Basics, we’ll…
Library Marketing ideas perfect for October
By: Christina Samek, OverDrive Marketing Specialist We launched the Resource Center 6 months ago to make it easy for you to access OverDrive marketing, training, collection development assistance and more. We do our best to keep it refreshed each month and in the latest set…
50 library systems still on pace to surpass one million digital checkouts with OverDrive in 2016
In July we announced that more than 50 digital library collections from around the world were on pace to reach more than one million digital checkouts on their OverDrive-powered website. We’re under three months until we say goodbye to 2016 and those 50 are still…
Digital library Ideas for increasing circulation all October long
The calendar has turned to October which means the end of the year is nigh. Before the holidays arrive and we turn our attention to 2017 lets take advantage of that this month has to offer. October is traditionally a busy time in the Young…
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