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)
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…
2019 Youth Media Awards
By: Sarah Wilsman, Content Specialist The American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – at its Midwinter Meeting in Seattle in January. This year’s Youth Media…
Shop smarter with assorted lending models
By: Erica Tucker, Product Support Manager As Marketplace users likely know, OverDrive offers access to several different lending models (a set of purchasing and borrowing terms for digital content, determined by the publisher) in Marketplace. While Marketplace defaults to the One Copy/One User & Metered…
Summer Read Wrap Up 2018
This month we wrap up the Summer Read program. Thank you for all the schools that participated. We hope your students liked it and will enter the classroom eager to read and ready to learn. Reading over the summer stems summer slide, with children in…