Happy Teen Read Week!
By: Sarah Wilsman, Collection Development Specialist Confession: I read a lot of YA Lit. A lot of it. I love teen fiction because it is honest even when the narrators are unreliable. I love diving into the diverse teen world and taking journeys of identity….
Spend time with OverDrive to gain time in the classroom
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist. When I was a classroom teacher, if you’d asked me for the #1 item on my wishlist, “more time” would have topped it year after year. Time isn’t traditionally a giftable item, but our goal at OverDrive is to make…
Happy World Teachers Day!
By: Sarah Wilsman, Collection Development Specialist. At OverDrive, we love teachers. We love them so much we have a blog post dedicated to staff memories of their favorite teachers. My own favorite teacher was Mrs. Markt, my Fourth-Grade teacher. Mrs. Markt managed the largest class…
OverDrive Education fall workshops in October and November
OverDrive Education is hosting user group workshops around the US and Canada this fall. Join us at one of our events to learn how to increase demand for digital books in your school community, and best practices for implementing Sora. Key discussion topics include: using…
Top 5 questions from our Sora webcasts
By: Courtney Sveda, Training Specialist. Over the past two months, we’ve been sharing Sora, our new student reading app, with school partners through a series of live training webcasts. We’re happy so many of you joined us to learn more! During these sessions, we chatted…
Now is your chance to save big on YA and juvenile audiobooks
As you may have noticed, we’ve been running a massive sale in OverDrive Marketplace highlighting quality content that perfectly aligns with back to school time. Both libraries and schools can take advantage of some of the wonderful collections and custom created lists you’ll find on…
Ask Team OverDrive: our favorite teachers
By: Tiffany Wincek, Account Manager. We here at OverDrive hope that your school year is off to an amazing start. You positively impact your learners’ lives every day—so much so that, decades from now, your students will still remember you for the funny things that happened…
The Hate U Give…away
Get a signed copy of The Hate U Give to give away for your next library book club The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas has won countless major literary awards, sat atop the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and is…
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!
By: Sarah Wilsman, Collection Development Specialist. Did you know that Hispanic Americans are the largest ethnic or racial minority in the United States? 54% of the population in California, Florida and Texas identify as Hispanic which Merriam Webster defines as someone, “of, related to, or being…
More & more educators are using digital books as instructional tools. Here’s why – and how – you should, too
More and more educators are embracing digital books as invaluable additions to their instructional toolbox. Let’s explore some of the most popular reasons why: With a variety of formats including ebooks (including dyslexic font), audiobooks, graphic novels and Read-Alongs, students can choose the option that…