Recommendations come to school digital libraries

Recommend to Library, OverDrive's enhancement that lets users suggest titles for libraries to add to their digital collection, is rolling out for our school partner websites. This feature, which will enable students to view OverDrive's catalog of titles not currently in your digital library, helps answer the ultimate questions, "What should we put in the collection?" and, "What do my students want read?"   Recommendations will be tracked in OverDrive Marketplace for staff members to review and add to their carts. If a school purchases titles that a student recommends, the student will be alerted via email so he or she can check out the book. This new feature will empower your students and open lines of communication with staff members as to what titles readers are interested in and what the most popular recommendations are. By making your students a part of the selection process, you can create a collection of titles you know your students want.   While students will be able to recommend titles not currently in your collection, they won't have access to OverDrive's full collection. Students will not be able to recommend titles such as "Fifty Shades of Grey," for example. They will be limited to viewing titles that are a part of OverDrive's collection with any of the following criteria: Titles with Juvenile or Young Adult subject categories Titles that have school metadata, such as Lexile/ATOS scores Titles that have been added to other school library collections   Pilots for this program will begin soon with a full rollout expected later this year. Visit OverDrive at AASL in Hartford, Conn., November 14-16, to learn about the new recommendation feature and much more. If you'd like more information about the Recommend to School feature, you can contact your Account Specialist.   Adam Sockel is a Marketing Communications Specialist with OverDrive

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