Announcing accessibility enhancements in the Libby app
To support your library’s mission to serve every reader in your community, we’ve been working to improve the accessibility of the Libby app. Recent updates make Libby more accessible for all readers, including users with a diverse range of visual, motor, and cognitive needs. Many…
Be in the Know with Kensington!
Join us on Wed., Nov. 17, 2021 at 1:30 PM ET for a special catalog presentation from Kensington. Attendees will get a first look at Kensington’s winter and spring 2022 titles and the event will feature special appearances by authors and editors. Library partners who…
Digital Shift in Schools Accelerates During ’20-’21 School Year
June 24, 2021 – OverDrive Education reports growth in schools using ebooks and audiobooks and creates resources to help schools navigate government funding (ESF or ESSER)
The new issue of Perspectives on Reading is here!
The new issue of Perspectives on Reading magazine is now available and packed with fantastic stories, ideas and insights from all corners of the world of reading. Issue 8 includes: Bowling Green State University’s Browne Popular Culture Library helps preserve romance fiction How are U.S….
Learn how digital book clubs can help you stay connected with your patrons
By: Meghan Volchko, Public Library Collection Development Manager If any of you out there are like me, you have a compulsive need to talk about what you are reading with everyone. This has been made quite difficult by my being stuck at home, as I am…
‘Check Out’ May’s Trending Titles on Libby!
OverDrive Reveals Top Downloaded Ebooks and Audiobooks from the Public Library and Data Showing Increased Demand for Digital Content During Global Pandemic The worldwide leader for public library ebooks and audiobooks releases data measuring the increase in digital reading and top downloaded titles since the…
A Sweet Treat of Free School-Approved Popular Ebooks for Students
Apr. 15, 2020 – Thousands of schools globally participating in OverDrive Sora Sweet Reads program to avoid early “summer slide”
Fall in love on a “Blind Book Date”
By: Rickie Mascia, Social Media Specialist As librarians and book nerds, everyone here at OverDrive loves a good book recommendation. Even more so, we love giving them. There’s something exceptionally special about knowing that you’re about to introduce someone to a new story that will…
Reaching your reluctant readers webinar
By: Meghan Volchko, Public Library Collection Development Manager Reader, I married him. A non-reader. I knew this from the beginning and for a while it was kind of cute. Here’s this librarian dating, engaged to, then married to an engineer who doesn’t even have a…
The enduring impact of “Little Women”
By: Hannah Monson, Content Specialist Little Women — originally published in two parts, entitled Little Women and Good Wives — celebrated its 150th birthday in 2018. Celebration of this landmark anniversary has extended into 2019, with a new movie adaptation directed by Greta Gerwig and…