Save up to 50% through the end of the year during our Holiday Spectacular Sale!
From now until December 31st you can save 25-50% off thousands of titles in OverDrive Marketplace from hundreds of publishers. These savings are available on eBooks, audiobooks as well as huge savings on our streaming video content. Now is the perfect time to offer your…
Get ready for the holidays with our next Readers’ Advisory collection
You are invited to participate in OverDrive’s next Readers’ Advisory project, which highlights our favorite selection of holiday reads. This time there will be two collections – one highlighting adult titles, and another showcasing kids and teen content. The project offers hand-picked titles to help…
Select Simon & Schuster eBooks now provide a new option for library lending with a two-year term!
OverDrive is excited to announce a pilot of a new library lending model from Simon & Schuster. Starting today, over 550 Simon & Schuster titles are available for a two-year lending term, in addition to the present one year lending term. For new purchases, libraries will now…
Let OverDrive help you prep for the holiday rush with our free webinar
The holidays are, traditionally, the busiest time of the year in the digital library world. Over the next few months countless readers will unwrap new devices and smart phones and discover all the wonderful content they can get from the library for free. With this…
Introducing the midlist eHighlights catalog
By Todd Warhola, librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. I’m very excited to introduce our newest edition of eHighlights online catalogs, The Midlist eHighlights. This Midlist edition focuses attention on some of our collections forgotten heroes. Everyone wants that bright and shiny new book but these…
Read-Alongs perfect for National Family Literacy Day on November 1st
Rachel Kray is a Librarian and Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive Looking for a fun new way to integrate reading and family time? Look no further than our Read-Alongs! These titles are accessible through OverDrive Read, our browser-based eReader, so no need to download…
Teen Read Week: New Places at Home & Abroad (Realistic and Thriller)
By Emma Kanagaki, Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive. I consider myself lucky that I’ve been an avid reader all my life. When I was younger, my grandma, a former school teacher, used to take me to the community library’s monthly book sale. It was a…
7 easy ways to promote your digital collection on social media
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist In the library world we understand that budgets are often tight, with every dollar being earmarked for collection development, programs and events which means that it can be tough to find additional funding to promote your content. Thankfully,…
Prepare for the Holiday rush at your library
By Rachel Kray, a Librarian and Collection Development Analyst with OverDrive Over the years, we here at OverDrive have noted some of the best practices of our libraries as we creep up on the holiday rush. Here is what we’ve learned: The days between December…
Add a #BannedBooksWeek curated collection to your digital library today!
At OverDrive we know a few things for certain: 1) #BannedBooksWeek is awesome and 2) offering your users customized curated collections is a great way to boost your circulation. Why not marry those two undeniable facts by creating a #BannedBooksWeek curated collection for you…
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