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OverDrive end user survey results – Spring 2013
Earlier this year, OverDrive surveyed 70,000 end users around the world to learn how they interact with their library’s digital collection. This survey offers insight into who eBook users are and how...
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The top 100 audiobooks from 2013 so far…
Did you know that 14.8 million audiobooks have been borrowed so far in 2013 from OverDrive users around the world? That’s over 60,000 per day which averages out to one audiobook being checked out...
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There’s still time to join this month’s OverDrive training webinars
By: Sydney Kalnay, OverDrive Training Specialist. Looking to learn about — or refresh your understanding of — OverDrive Marketplace or the OverDrive user experience? Join us for our live basics...
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No time to read? Think again.
By: Melissa Marin, OverDrive Marketing Specialist. With September being Library Card Sign-Up Month and Read an eBook Day quickly approaching, we are on a mission to help you get everyone in your...
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Celebrate Read an eBook Day and win content credit from OverDrive
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive Social Media Specialist You may have heard that we’re celebrating the third annual International Read an eBook Day this Friday, September 16. The holiday was created as a...
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Tools to Help Users with Common OverDrive Questions
By: Briana Johnson-Sims, OverDrive Training Specialist How do I return titles early? How do I curate collections in Marketplace? How do I merge a user’s original and new IDs? These questions may...
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Team OverDrive spends a day with the Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank
Recently, members of Team OverDrive spent an afternoon volunteering at The Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank, helping to sort and package books that are then sent to children, families and schools in need of...
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Integrating OverDrive with other Classroom Apps
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist. Integrating technology into the classroom is a shared goal among educators. What once was a lofty task—considering the nuances of early technology—is much...
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Magnifying the Mystery Genre with BISAC
By: Annie Suhy, OverDrive Collection Development Specialist Recently, the OverDrive Collection Development Librarians had stars in their eyes and butterflies in their stomachs when they pulled together...
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The top 5 reasons you can’t miss Digipalooza 2017
By: Melissa Marin, OverDrive Marketing Specialist What are you doing next August? We hope the answer is joining us in Cleveland for Digipalooza! If you work with OverDrive at your library, this is a...
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Batman #1 available for free from Trajectory and DC Comics in OverDrive...
In honor of the recent celebration of Batman Day, our friends at at Trajectory and DC Comics have made Batman #1 available for free in OverDrive Marketplace from now until September 26th. This Caped...
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11 classic book quotes that prove the importance of reading banned books
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive Social Media Specialist Being a library company we fervently believe in the importance of Banned Books Week. Regardless of whether you agree with the information presented in...
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The title OverDrive users selected as the next Big Library Read
The next Big Library Read will be kicking off October 13, and the YA title chosen in our survey by readers, librarians and teachers is This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp. Told from four...
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Reviewing Margaret Atwood’s spectacular Tempest re-imaginging, Hag-seed
By: Kristin Milks, OverDrive Collection Development Analyst O, brave new world that has such people in it! -William Shakespeare, The Tempest Oh brave Margaret Atwood who takes such a gorgeous play...
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Content to help you keep representation in your classroom
As we’ve discussed previously, it’s essential to have proper representation in the content you make available to your students. There has been a big movement in the young adult community called...
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Digital library Ideas for increasing circulation all October long
The calendar has turned to October which means the end of the year is nigh. Before the holidays arrive and we turn our attention to 2017 lets take advantage of that this month has to offer. October is...
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What’s New in the Resource Center: Temporary tattoos, Halloween and more!
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist. October is finally here. It means Halloween is right around the corner and it’s now socially acceptable to hang ghostly figures from the trees in my yard. I...
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50 library systems still on pace to surpass one million digital checkouts...
In July we announced that more than 50 digital library collections from around the world were on pace to reach more than one million digital checkouts on their OverDrive-powered website. We’re under...
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Educators on quality content and the best devices to access it
Eighty percent of districts & schools use digital content, and educators across subject areas want to introduce eBooks into their curriculum. But there are so many questions to address. What...
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Library Marketing ideas perfect for October
By: Christina Samek, OverDrive Marketing Specialist We launched the Resource Center 6 months ago to make it easy for you to access OverDrive marketing, training, collection development assistance and...
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