Create Reading Happiness: It’s never been easier to create a customized digital library experience
As the calendar turns to November, families around the world will begin planning for the upcoming holidays. Traditionally, this is a time where we see a big spike in usage of OverDrive-powered digital collections. This means you’ll want to make sure you’re prepared for the…
Create Reading Happiness: Library Card Sign Up month and Celebrating Read an eBook Day
By: Adam Sockel, Social Media Specialist September is known around the literary world as Library Card Sign Up Month, a time to boost awareness of all the goodness your library has to offer. Sometimes it’s as simple as reminding families in the community what you…
Create Reading Happiness: celebrate summer blockbusters with Page to Screen books and streaming video
Summer is traditionally when Hollywood rolls out its blockbuster movies. The big budget, tent pole films we all enjoy with a bucket of buttery popcorn and a smile on our face. While we fill the theaters to laugh, cry and be endlessly entertained, there’s a…
Create Reading Happiness: Celebrating Audiobook Month!
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive Social Media Specialist and audiobook addict. June is widely known as Audiobook Month, a time to celebrate the greatness that is reading with your ears! Audiobooks are perfect for people with busy lifestyles who don’t always have time to sit down…
Create Reading Happiness by getting “Caught Reading” all month long!
May is known nationwide as “Get Caught Reading” month, a time to not only celebrate your love of all things bookish but to let the world see your adoration by “getting caught” reading. As the cast of Hamilton would say, “Shout it from the rooftops!”…
Create Reading Happiness: Librarians matter now more than ever
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist During April, we are proud to celebrate National Library Week, a time dedicated to the sheer awesomeness that is the librarian. Of course, celebrating “librarian love” is something we do every day here at OverDrive but National…
Create Reading Happiness by reading to a child during National Reading Month
By Adam Sockel, Social Media Specialist and OverDrive’s resident Seuss fanatic. March is known as National Reading Month, a time to celebrate the joy of all things reading. The month kicks off with one of our favorite holidays, Read Across America, on March 2nd as…
Create Reading Happiness at your library with this special webcast
Here at OverDrive we believe that the library is the central connecting point in a community, the glue the brings everyone together. This means, as a library, you need to have materials and programs for all members of your diverse community. A library’s success comes…
Create Reading Happiness: Fall in Love with your Library
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist As we’ve previously shared, OverDrive’s theme for 2016 is Create Reading Happiness. Our goal is to help libraries continue their mission to create as many happy readers as possible by being one of the many outstanding aspects of the…
Looking back on ALA Midwinter
By Adam Sockel, OverDrive’s Social Media Specialist This past weekend Team OverDrive had the privilege of joining many of our library partners in Boston for the annual midwinter American Library Association conference. The weekend was full of productive meetings and presentations as well as…
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