7 Game of Thrones read alikes: one for each kingdom
Come April 14th, we’ll return to Westeros one last time to discover who will win the Game of Thrones. The White Walkers have breached the wall, there is chaos across the Realm and, somehow, it’s all coming to a head in the final season of…
Rhyming and Reading Across America
We’ve arrived once again at the day of the Doc. The time on my watch says Seuss-o-Clock For read Across America has once again returned And so we celebrate Theodore and his lessons we’ve learned Dr. Seuss taught us kindness, joy, and to speak for…
Go hog wild this Chinese New Year
It’s the Year of the Pig and the three little piggies have a webcast featuring Chinese titles you will want to add to your OverDrive collection before the Big Bad Wolf blows your house down (although, hopefully your library is built from bricks and will…
Professional Book Nerds 2019 Reading Challenge recommendations
Earlier this year, we shared the news that our Professional Book Nerds podcast had launched their very own Professional Book Nerds 2019 Reading Challenge. The interest and response from librarians and readers alike was so great that they’ve dedicated an entire episode to a few…
8 new Libby features to help you read more
If you’ve used Libby lately you may have noticed that the award-winning app got a bit of a makeover. We’ve highlighted eight great tips from the latest update below. Borrowing and placing holds at multiple libraries A major change in Libby is that you can…
You’ll love shopping our Romance Sale
As many of our partners already know, romance is the most highly circulated genre in libraries, especially in digital formats that allow patrons to indulge their guilty pleasures without anyone else knowing. Romance is also the most cost-effective genre and one of the easiest ways…
Register for Digipalooza Academy
For nearly a decade, Team OverDrive has been welcoming librarians to Cleveland for Digipalooza every other summer. The event is loaded with important information about OverDrive, the digital reading landscape, presentations from leaders in the library industry, and, of course, a lot of fun. We’ve…
How libraries can spend less and circ more (Part 3/3)
By: Karen Estrovich, Regional Manager, North America Public Library We hope you enjoyed the “How libraries can spend less and circ more” checklist we introduced in Part 2 of this series last week. Maybe you’ve even used some of those tips to help manage the…
How libraries can spend less and circ more (Part 2/3)
By: Karen Estrovich, Regional Manager, North America Public Library When we introduced this series last week, we reviewed some of the impressive stats behind the dramatic increase in demand on libraries’ digital collections. How can you manage this growing popularity on a budget? Curate, curate,…
How libraries can spend less and circ more (Part 1/3)
By: Karen Estrovich, Regional Manager, North America Public Library With an abundance of reading and other mobile apps to distract readers and suck up mindshare, how do we position the library as the first place to look when they want to be entertained, escape the…