As more schools around the world experiment with eBook lending, we’re seeing more and more evidence showing the effectiveness of digital resources in the classroom. A new study conducted by Australia’s New South Wales Department of Education and Communities…

January 26 is Australia Day, which commemorates the arrival of the Britain’s First Fleet in Sydney Cove in 1788. For many Australians,  the holiday is about spending time with friends and family over a barbeque and a beer…

It’s a big week for OverDrive in Australia. We just announced the opening of our Melbourne office, which will support our expanding services for libraries, publishers and booksellers in the region. We’ve already been working with our Australia-based…

The Australian Library and Information Association is holding its biennial conference—known as “ALIA”—in Sydney, July 10 to 13. If you’re going to ALIA, you’ll have the opportunity to attend insightful sessions such as “Creating a Vision for Mobile…

The holidays are jing’ jing’ jingling our way, and we would be willing to bet there will be eBook readers and tablets galore gift wrapped for loved ones these next few weeks. This means many more digital checkouts are coming…

The calendar tells me it’s a new month (Hello, November!), which means it’s time for us to welcome our new library partners that went live with an OverDrive digital collection in October. Congratulations to our 57 new public, school, and…

Cindy Orr asks us to take a step back and see how eBooks are making a difference in her monthly column:

I grew up in northwestern Kansas near a town of about 200 inhabitants. When I was a…

Australian libraries with digital collections powered by OverDrive can now access more than 23,000 public domain titles for free through Project Gutenberg.  The titles can be read in any EPUB-compatible software and transferred to EPUB-capable eBook readers, including the Sony…

Congratulations to the following partners that went live with an OverDrive digital collection in June. Click on any link to be directed to each library or school’s ‘Virtual Branch’ website.

Garland County Library (Arkansas)
http://garland.lib.overdrive.com…

Dr. Jill Abell, Director of Information Services (IT, Libraries and Archives) at The Hutchins School in Tasmania, shares her experience seeking out an eBook solution for her school library.

Thanks to OverDrive’s School Download Library service, The Hutchins…