We want you and your readers to pick the next Big Library Read title!
All this week our library partners and their users have the opportunity to select the next title that will be read during the Big Library Read. By going to the Big Library Read website, you can vote on the title that will be read by…
Your library can win a Harry Potter experience
OverDrive is excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Pottermore to give away tickets to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando Resort in Florida and Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter in…
Love is in the air with the new Readers’ Advisory collection
By Jim Monastra, an Account Specialist with OverDrive You are invited to participate in OverDrive’s next Readers’ Advisory project, which centers on terrific romantic titles. As with the last campaign, we will be showcasing two separate collections for your OverDrive site – one collection that…
OverDrive Local Content lets your community be a part of your digital collection
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist OverDrive’s Local Content tool is a great way to enhance the value of your digital collection by offering unique historical documents, titles written by local authors and community videos your library has copyright permission to upload. Schools can…
Exciting updates to the OverDrive app and the Read & Listen formats
OverDrive is working hard to bring you and your readers the best digital reading experience, and we’re excited to share some updates that are coming soon to OverDrive Read, OverDrive Listen, and the OverDrive app. OverDrive Read & OverDrive Listen Updated Menu icon with new icons (like…
Download Episode #5 of the Professional Book Nerds Podcast
By Jill Grunenwald, librarian, OverDrive Collection Development Analyst, and host of the Professional Book Nerds podcast As host of the Professional Book Nerds podcast I am, of course, always excited to share a new episode with our listeners but this one I am particularly excited…
Books to read once you finish Making a Murderer
By Rachel Kray, a Librarian and Collection Development Analyst at OverDrive (and an amateur sleuth / armchair crime solver) It seems like the whole world is talking about Steven Avery and the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer. If you’re anything like me, you binge watched…
What we’re excited to READ in 2016
By Kristin Milks, Librarian and Collection Development Analyst at OverDrive. We here at OverDrive know what you really need: more books on your ‘To Read’ list! Lucky for you, we’re going to tell you what we cannot wait to load on our eReading devices. Humor…
Looking back on ALA Midwinter
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist This past weekend Team OverDrive had the privilege of joining many of our library partners in Boston for the annual midwinter American Library Association conference. The weekend was full of productive meetings and presentations as well as…
The books that got Team OverDrive reading
By Christina Samek, an OverDrive Launch Specialist We are a team of book nerds. This is not news–we love books, we know books. But, it wasn’t always this way. We were children once, figuring it all out. Words were shaping the trajectory of our…
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