Without digitizing special collections, we’re limiting their availability to the collective scrutiny of creative minds that are continuing to solve important problems.
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Author: OverDrive Staff
It’s an art form that involves understanding readers’ preferences, mood and prior reading experiences – and how to get them to quickly convey all this.
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Point of View: Skip Dye, Vice President, Penguin Random House
OverDrive’s Steve Potash speaks with Skip Dye, Vice President for Library Marketing and Digital Sales, Sales Operations for Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade publisher.
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Though there’s still a long way to go to achieve true equality in publishing, 2018 saw increases in both digital readership and sales of content created by authors that come from a diverse background.
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By Ge-Anne Bolhuis, Instructional Technology Specialist & Media Specialist Liaison | March 2019 The tables are set. Silverware gleams, tablecloths are elegantly draped and the place settings shine. The main course is perfectly plated, and students’ eyes widen in wonder as the hostesses, School Library Media Specialist Sonya Thompson and seventh grade language arts teacher […]
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Before the written word, stories were passed down through the oral tradition of storytelling. For Liberian-American author Wayétu Moore, the stories of West Africa were her introduction to imaginative worlds and speculative fiction.
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Editorial: The Shark Tank marketing channel made in heaven
It goes unappreciated to many authors and publishers that libraries and librarians promote their product – reading and the books they produce – in thousands of high-traffic consumer locations in nearly every community.
Point of View: Dr. Michael Daria & Andrew Maxey, Tuscaloosa City Schools
Perspectives on Reading speaks with Superintendent Dr. Michael Daria and Director of Special Programs Andrew Maxey of the Tuscaloosa City Schools (AL). Providing instruction to more than 10,000 PreK-12 students across 21 schools, the district has recently embraced a renewed focus on literacy.
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A first-time novelist, Christina Dalcher is also a writer of flash fiction (short, short stories) and previously taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses in linguistics, phonetics and phonology as well as writing and rhetoric.
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Total checkouts from K-12 digital collections have spiked by 43% since last year.
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