Your Brain on Audiobooks: Why Listening Matters
By: Annie Suhy, Outreach Specialist. Before we are able to read, our parents read to us. We follow the story with our ears and the colorful illustrations spark our imaginations. Many have memories of parents, grandparents, siblings, or teachers reading to them as young children….
Britannica Digital Learning provides knowledge & nostalgia at your fingertips
On a recent episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast, author, talk show host and stand-up comedian Guy Branum shared a wonderful story about encyclopedias. In both the interview and his book My Life as a Goddess, Guy discusses how, when he was young, the…
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Three million people are diagnosed with dyslexia each year. Students might struggle with reading fluency, decoding, reading comprehension, recall, writing, spelling and sometimes speech. All of these challenges might exist along with other related disorders, which can make the learning experience incredibly stressful. Among students…
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…
Grab your Red Balloon and join The Big Library Read
Get ready to go back in time on an adventure in magical realism, Cold War conspiracies, World War II and much more because the latest Big Library Read has launched. From now through October 15, readers at the more than 22,000 participating OverDrive library and…
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…