Using the hashtag #BookTok, readers and writers come together on TikTok to discuss and review books. The #BookTok hashtag currently has over 29 billion views, with thousands of content creators participating.
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Author: Bryan Villegas
Point of View: Author Susan Orlean
OverDrive’s Steve Potash talks with author Susan Orlean about her new book, On Animals.
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Many parents and educators are discovering audiobooks just might offer a viable solution to capturing students’ attention, providing an effective compromise between entertainment and education.
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Since its launch in 2017, the Ear Hustle podcast has given listeners a glimpse into the daily realities of life inside San Quentin State Prison.
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Opened in 2016 through a grant from the Boulder Library Foundation, BLDG 61 is a free community workshop dedicated to hands-on learning and the cultivation of purposeful experiences through making.
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Point of View: Thomas Nixon, Library Services Manager, Fresno Unified School District
OverDrive Education talks with Thomas Nixon, Library Services Manager for the Fresno Unified School District (CA). Thomas discusses serving a diverse student body, using government relief funds to expand access to reading, social media as an outreach tool and more.
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Zakiya Dalila Harris has taken the literary world by storm with her debut novel, The Other Black Girl. The title was an instant New York Times bestseller and has received critical acclaim from every corner of the internet.
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For two years ending in July 2021, Karen Craigo — author of the full-length poetry collections Passing Through Humansville and No More Milk as well as the mini-collections Escaped Housewife Tries Hard to Blend In, Stone For an Eye, and Someone Could Build Something Here — served as Missouri’s poet laureate.
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It’s a common misconception that people who borrow books from libraries do so to avoid paying for them. The truth is that the Venn diagram of book borrowers and book buyers is much closer to a singular circle.
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Over the past few years, amid shrinking budgets and increasing operating costs from higher student enrollments, school libraries and librarians are often some of the first victims when the time comes to cut spending.
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