The most popular titles borrowed by OverDrive school digital libraries
By Christina Samek, OverDrive Launch Specialist Though it seems hard to believe, 2016 has arrived. For some, this brought piles and piles of snow. Others, torrential rains and blustery winds. For our school partners, an end to holiday break and the beginning of a new…
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…
School and public libraries are gearing up for their Summer Reading programs.
By Sheila Henline, Librarian and Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive. Educators continually express the importance of reading during the breaks so our young boys and girls do not forget their skills, preventing the dreaded summer slide. School libraries often send home lists of books for…
Librarian’s Share: Creating a student book club and blog
By Kelly Hladek, a Library Media Specialist from Morton High School Recently we had a chance to speak with Kelly Hladek a Library Media Specialist from Morton High School who is using an interactive blog and a book club to help promote eReading among her…
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…
Librarian’s Share: Whitefish Middle School throws a Gothic Tea Party!
By Dana Carmichael, Librarian at Whitefish Middle School. In October, OverDrive held our most recent Big Library Read event where users around the world can enjoy the same titles at the same time, without wait lists or holds. The selections were from the YA genre…
Save big on content young readers will love from Scholastic, Nickelodeon, Abrams and more
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist. As you may have heard we’re currently running our Holiday Spectacular Sale where you can save up to 50% on thousands of titles until the end of the year. Not only can you get great deals on best…
The Polar Express turns 30
By Sheila Henline, a Librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. Do you still hear the ring of the bells on Santa’s sleigh? This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the book The Polar Express written by Chris Van Allsburg. If you have been on the planet…
5 creative ways to promote your digital library during the holiday break!
By Christina Samek, an OverDrive Launch Specialist. You better watch out, you better not cry…because the holiday season has finally arrived! I am sure you are very aware of this, no jingle necessary. Your students are probably preparing their Holiday wish lists, discussing plans for…
We want you to decide the best book of 2015
Each year websites like to release their “best books of the year” lists in December. We’ve even shared our favorite ones right here. Now we want you, the readers, to decide the absolute best book of the 2015. We’ve rounded up the 32 most checked…
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