Curated collection ideas to boost your circulation
Adam Sockel is OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist. We mentioned a few times how great curated collections are. They let you decide what to show off in your digital library site and they help circulate titles that may need some love. But “ugh”, it’s hard to come…
Teen Read Week: New Places at Home & Abroad (Realistic and Thriller)
By Emma Kanagaki, Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive. I consider myself lucky that I’ve been an avid reader all my life. When I was younger, my grandma, a former school teacher, used to take me to the community library’s monthly book sale. It was a…
Teen Read Week: Get Away to Other Worlds (Sci-Fi/Fantasy Picks)
Rachel Kray is a Librarian and Collection Development Analyst at OverDrive When I was a teenager, I had my first love affair with reading. I had always been loyal to my romance-type, humor, and classic stories. Then I discovered Sci-Fi. And my life changed…
The books of YouTube’s biggest stars
By Emma Kanagaki, librarian and Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive With the age of the internet, there are even more mediums for people to get creative. From blogs to vlogs (video blogs) and beyond, “Team Internet” is taking their set of skills to a more traditional…
LGBT history month and National Coming Out Day reading lists
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist Last June, as many of you may recall, the American Library Association held their annual conference in San Francisco. Thirty minutes before our flight landed news broke that the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage were legal…
H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N Spells Halloween!!
By Kristin Milks, Librarian and Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive I love the pagan customs, harvest blessings, and air of anticipation around this season. For whatever reason, Halloween season makes me giddy. There’s so much to do before winter sets in! I, like many others,…
Add a #BannedBooksWeek curated collection to your digital library today!
At OverDrive we know a few things for certain: 1) #BannedBooksWeek is awesome and 2) offering your users customized curated collections is a great way to boost your circulation. Why not marry those two undeniable facts by creating a #BannedBooksWeek curated collection for you…
Lets celebrate #BannedBooksWeek!
By Sheila Henline, a librarian and Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive. (ED. Note: for optimal enjoyment press play before reading…) Every year libraries and librarians, booksellers, publishers and authors become involved in #BannedBooksWeek, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. The importance of…
Librarian’s Share: Merchandise Your OverDrive Collection Like a Pro
Ed. Note: This blog was written by Maria Cipriano. Maria is a Collections Librarian and manages the Electronic and Online resources for Toronto Public Library. Recently she presented at Digipalooza about Toronto Public Library and their success with curated collection. Last month I did something…
Adam’s 10 deserted island reads
(Ed. Note: Adam is a Social Media Specialist at OverDrive and manages the blog. He put his whole team through this exercise so it only seemed fair that he do it too. He’s also writing this note and apologizes that it’s in third person. I have…
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