Spend time with OverDrive to gain time in the classroom
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist. When I was a classroom teacher, if you’d asked me for the #1 item on my wishlist, “more time” would have topped it year after year. Time isn’t traditionally a giftable item, but our goal at OverDrive is to make…
Monthly K-12 Webcasts – Free, Fast, Focused
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist. Welcome to the new school year, educator friends! Whether you’ve just started back or are feeling like you’ve been in the building forever and a day, we know the fall can be fraught with excitement, delight, and, occasionally, abject terror….
New monthly K-12 webcasts start June 19th!
Join OverDrive for a series of live monthly webcasts specifically designed for you, our administrators, classroom teachers, media specialists, and school librarians. We’ll discuss the basics of shopping in Marketplace, the student user experience, and strategies for talking to your school community about your OverDrive service….
What’s New in the Resource Center: Back-to-School and more!
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist. August is always a little bittersweet as it rings in the end of summer and brings the first glimpse of fall (and pumpkin spice everything!). I personally love fall but if you are feeling a little down, these Resource Center…
Making the Digital Shift in the Classroom
By Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist. As educators, you know that meeting students in their favored environment – the digital space – can engender trust while helping them adopt the 21st century skills they’ll need to succeed in the future. To that end, many teachers are…
Helpful new tools and trainings available in the OverDrive Resource Center
By: Christina Samek, OverDrive Marketing Specialist. Since the Resource Center‘s launch in April, we have received positive feedback and have seen increased site traffic from partners all over the world. We are so thrilled that you are enjoying the improvements and exploring our new content…
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…
OverDrive’s Resource Center makes it easier than ever to promote your digital library
We are excited to unveil the brand new OverDrive Resource Center, where you’ll find all your marketing, training and collection development needs in one simple location. At the Resource Center you’ll discover essential tools to grow your circulation, separated by platform type (Library, K-12, etc.)…
Win free registration to Digipalooza ‘15!
OverDrive is excited to announce a partnership with Digipalooza conference partner, Penguin Random House, to offer 10 scholarships for Digipalooza ‘15! The scholarship will cover the $199 registration fee for five public library staff members and five school teachers or librarians to our 5th international…
Level up in 2025: Free OverDrive Training for professional growth
If you read our OverDrive Training Wrapped post, you know our training team spent hundreds of hours planning and delivering webinars to our library partners in 2024. In 2025, our training team is back with another year of the best on-demand training for public librarians!…