Monday 5×5 for May 6, 2019
Test your knowledge on the Bard with the new Trivial Pursuit Shakespeare Edition Good ol’ Billy Shakes. Personally, “Macbeth” is my favorite although I did thoroughly enjoy the production of “Much Ado About Nothing” starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate (not that I saw it…
“Homes” is next Big Library Read: Join our global book club
By: Sarah Delano, Product Support Specialist. Big Library Read (BLR), facilitated by OverDrive, is a reading program that connects readers around the world with the same ebook at the same time without any wait lists or holds. It’s easy to join this worldwide digital version…
Library seminars: UK and Australia
UK partners gather in London at annual partner breakfast By: Erica Tucker, Product Support Manager. On Wednesday, 13 March 2019, members of the OverDrive UK Library team were thrilled to host partners from the greater London area for the annual UK Library Partner Breakfast in…
Shop smarter with assorted lending models
By: Erica Tucker, Product Support Manager As Marketplace users likely know, OverDrive offers access to several different lending models (a set of purchasing and borrowing terms for digital content, determined by the publisher) in Marketplace. While Marketplace defaults to the One Copy/One User & Metered…
Singapore’s Crazy Rich Success
By: Sarah Delano, Product Support Specialist National Library Board Singapore has been a leader among their peers boasting technology achievements such as the first OverDrive Digital Business Library. This fall, they reached a new record by having the most successful Simultaneous Use title in OverDrive…
3 keys to success for reading at Guernsey
By: Elizabeth Hutchinson, Head of Schools’ Library Service, Guernsey Schools’ Library Service in Guernsey adopted OverDrive ebooks in 2015. It was part of our move into providing more online resources. One of our roles as SLS librarians is to promote reading for information, whether that…
OverDrive Training How-To: Assigning Titles to Your Students
1) Log into OverDrive Marketplace. Don’t have a login? Reach out to your OverDrive Account Manager or asksora@overdrive.com and ensure you have “Title assignments” admin privileges. 2) Click Admin on the main blue navigation bar and choose “Title assignments” from the drop-down menu. 3) Click…
Explore York: Big City Read 2018
By: Scott Smith, Account Manager. This autumn York hosted its tenth annual ‘Big City Read’, offering an array of events for the community as well as free copies of the festivals featured title – The Radleys by Matt Haig. Big City Read 2018 kicked off with…
Autumn seminars in the U.K.
By: Erica Tucker, Product Support Manager. In mid-October, several members of the education and library teams dedicated to our UK partners boarded a Boeing 757 destined for Edinburgh, Scotland, embarking on a week-long trip to meet with partners across the country. We were looking forward…
Fostering digital citizenship for your students
Educators choose their career path to help young people grow and learn. It’s a far bigger ask than the 3Rs. Like parents, teachers have to take the long view: You hope to influence not just the children in front of you, but also the adults…