OverDrive’s Holiday Sale lets you give to your community in more ways than one
The holidays are a time of giving and OverDrive’s yearly Holiday Sale is designed to help libraries and schools around the world give readers as many new book options as possible. This year, we’re offering up to 50% off on thousands of ebooks, audiobooks and…
The Professional Book Nerds 30 Day Book Challenge
Social media is a wonderful tool for finding new users in your community. It’s also a great way to interact with your patrons and show off your personality. One of the popular trends going around currently are “30 day” challenges where people share certain types…
Hear ye! Hear ye! The OverDrive Help Resources webcast is coming!
By Briana Johnson-Sims OverDrive offers a cornucopia of resources to help you help your users – but they’re only useful if you know about them! If you haven’t heard of phrases like “Libby Help video” or “Marketplace support form,” or if you know what help…
The Girl with the Red Balloon is this October’s Big Library Read selection
This October, our Big Library Read returns with the latest entry in the world’s largest ebook club and this time around the winning title is The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke. The book, which tells the story of sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum as…
Celebrate Read an Ebook Day with us on September 18
When people talk about Libby and/or OverDrive, odds are the first thing they mention is how easy and convenient it is. The accessibility of being able to read anytime, anywhere and all for free, thanks to the sheer awesomeness of libraries, is a wonder that…
Vote now for the next Big Library Read title
Big Library Read, our global ebook club, will be returning this autumn and we need your help choosing the title that will be read by readers across the world. Over the years, thousands of readers have discovered new books and authors thanks to Big Library…
White Oak Library creates an escape room with Libby
Normally, when we’re talking about libraries, we’re talking about bringing readers TO the library or keeping them connected to the library 24/7 with Libby. That said, this is one of the rare times when we’re excited to talk about escaping from a library! White Oak…
How Multnomah County Library is taking advantage of the rise in audiobook usage
Recently, in our inaugural edition of Perspectives on Reading, we shared trends about the growth in usage of digital audiobooks. Libraries around the world are boosting usage of their digital collections by capitalizing on the massive audiobook collection available in OverDrive Marketplace. One such library…
66 library systems are currently on pace to surpass 1 million checkouts in 2018
In 2017, 58 libraries surpassed 1 million checkouts on their OverDrive lending platform, leading the way to a global record of more than 225 million circulations around the world from all OverDrive-partner libraries and schools. Through the first half of 2018, digital circulations are once…
50% off audiobooks makes June the perfect month to grab your headphones
June is Audiobook Month and we’re celebrating by offering one of our biggest sales of the year. All month long you can save up to 50% on 20,000+ audiobook titles in OverDrive Marketplace. This means no matter how fast your patrons speed up the books to…