Overdrive! Want to discover or re-discover a fantastic digital service that the Cheboygan Area Public Library offers? Now is your chance. Get ready to explore Overdrive. Overdrive is a service that ...

“Schools and libraries in all forms are transitioning their spends from providing physical items that are being stored on shelves and branches to digital items -- the fastest portion of their growth,” ...

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins suspended funding to digital library provider OverDrive after a state senator alleged minors could access inappropriate materials through the service. State ...

OverDrive reps reported this week that a record 152 library systems and consortia across seven countries—including 41 states and seven Canadian provinces—surpassed the one million digital lends ...

Audiobook fans here have another option for listening to literature. OverDrive Digital Library Reserve, a service offering downloadable audiobooks, was recently made available free of charge to ...

I was recently listening to public radio show Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! while waiting for my bus when author Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame came on as a guest. I became intrigued enough to ...

An inflection point came in 2002, when Potash said OverDrive was not in its strongest position as a business. This was after dot com crash, and e-book was almost a dirty word, Potash said. But ...

OverDrive is putting another nail in the coffin of DRM with the announcement that it’ll stop offering audiobooks in the WMA format. Soon OverDrive will only sell audiobooks in DRM-free MP3. The ...

Ever feel like borrowing a book in the middle of the night when ORPL is closed? Bummed that we aren’t open, yet? (Yeah, we miss you, too!) Do you want to travel with books or have access to books when ...

The trajectory of e-book usage in K–12 schools is well-known. Demand was ramping up in the mid- to late 2010s, then took off when Covid lockdowns necessitated a pivot to remote and hybrid learning.