Curating Collections for Your Digital Library
By: Courtney Sveda, Training Specialist Did you know you can customize the collections featured on your OverDrive website and in Libby? Yes! Curation allows you to highlight format-specific content, newly added titles, or themed lists to promote library events or popular topics. These curated lists…
Special webcast – Drive your library’s digital circulation
By Courtney Sveda Happy almost-summer! June’s special webcast, Drive Digital Circulation by Selecting, Curating, and Marketing for Your Community, has a little something for everyone. No matter your role in supporting your library’s digital collection, this webcast, presented by OverDrive’s Training team, will provide some…
Take the mystery out of Curated Collections this May
By: Jill Grunenwald, Marketing and Communications Specialist May is Mystery Month and while we’re already halfway through the month, there’s still time to add some mystery themed curated collections to your OverDrive site! As a genre, mystery is one of those all encompassing ones that…
Learn how to curate your digital library!
By: Briana Johnson-Sims, Training Specialist It’s hard to talk about a successful digital library without using the word “curate.” Why? Because when you curate digital collections, you ultimately help patrons find new titles to enjoy and boost circulation numbers. As an added bonus, it’s super…
More than 50 libraries are on pace to hit one million digital checkouts with OverDrive in 2016
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive Social Media Specialist At the end of each calendar year, we share a list of the highest circulating digital library collections from around the world. As the rise in digital reading (and listening) has grown, so has our “Million Checkout Club.”…
BISAC Tips, Tricks and helpful links
By: Liz Tousey, Librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. Have you heard that we’ve added BISAC subject headings for some of our most popular content? Even if you have, read on anyway. You may have a few questions that can be answered below! BISAC Background…
Library Staff Training Pro-Tip: The Need to Weed
By: Sydney Kalnay, OverDrive Training Specialist (Ed. Note: This post discusses our training webcasts designed to help your staff become an OverDrive expert.You can sign up for these webcasts on our Resource Center here.) Recently, we held our quarterly special webcast, Everything You Ever Wanted to…
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