Editorial: Up in the sky…It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…book? Why we need reading heroes
Each of us has an opportunity to become a superhero: a reading hero. It’s time to support all the book and reading champions among us.
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Category: March 2019
Point of View: Lynn Gagnon, District Media Specialist, Keystone Local School District
OverDrive Education talks with Lynn Gagnon, District Media Specialist for northern Ohio’s Keystone Local School District.
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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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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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