Celebrating B Corp Month: OverDrive, Inc. and Our Commitment to Purpose-Driven Business
When I left my job in higher ed, I was deeply conflicted. I wanted to continue working towards making people’s lives easier or better. I wanted the work that I did to have some tangible, positive effect. I wanted to feel a sense of purpose…
OverDrive Resource Center updates
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager The Staff Training pages on our Resource Center have been redesigned with you in mind, and we’ll be adding improvements throughout 2020 to ensure you have everything you need to get started learning about all things OverDrive. Webinars –Live and…
Public library access in Sora just got an upgrade
By: Tiffany Wincek, Product Liaison Have you heard the news? Thanks to feedback from our partners, the Sora reading app can now dynamically display public library content based on a student’s assigned audience level. This update expands the availability of titles from the public library…
Share more with Google Classroom
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist Great news, Google Classroom users! You can now share OverDrive titles and collections directly to Google Classroom. Anyone with access to OverDrive Marketplace can sign in and share titles right away, expanding the reach of your school’s OverDrive ebooks and…
Sora is now available in 10 languages
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist We’re excited to share that Sora is now available in the following additional languages, giving more students the opportunity to fall in love with reading: Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese French German Italian Japanese Russian Spanish Swedish In your browser Students…
AI technology engages more readers with your library
At OverDrive, we’re always working to support your mission to serve readers in new and innovative ways. Over the last year, we have developed, tested, and launched several Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies into Libby to further enhance how you reach and support your patrons. We…
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…
Libby named one of Google Play’s Best Apps of 2017
Every December, Google honors a select number of apps in their Google Play store as the best of the best. These apps are broken out into various categories and highlighted on their homepage for users to discover. Libby, our one-tap reading app, was honored as one of…
Getting the most out of your OverDrive reading history
By: Adam Sockel, Marketing Communications Specialist Last week, we released an exciting update to our digital library websites that gives users access to their reading history. Often requested by libraries and patrons, the history allows users to track what they’ve read so they can make decisions about…
12 tips for getting the most out of Libby
By: Adam Sockel, Marketing Communications Specialist Readers around the world have fallen in love with our new app Libby. The new interface, simple one-tap experience and all-in-one shelf have made finding your next great read easier and faster than ever. Libby is designed to enable…