 Last month, more than 450 OverDrive school and library partners from around the world joined the Training Team's May Hot Topic Webinar series about boosting digital circulation and maximizing the value of your OverDrive service. We also heard from many of you who shared your library's success stories for growing your own user community. And the ideas are just too great to not share! Here are just a few of our favorite ideas: Kelsi Murphy, from Fayetteville-Lincoln County Public Library in Kentucky, wrote: "In our Teen section, we have put up posters of what titles we do and do not yet have in our digital collection. We ask teens to circle what titles they would like us to add to our digital collection, then post when we have purchased it." Julie Raynor, from the High Point Public Library in North Carolina, shared: "During the Aida Mollenkamp Big Library Read, I posted a recipe a day from her book on our Facebook page. It was fun and got some good response!" Richard Naylor, from William K Sanford Town Library in New York, shared the following idea: "We worked with OverDrive to develop a special collection: “Best of the Small Press,” created by OverDrive specialists once a month. All books have good reviews, so we know they have a good chance of being liked. We have an icon for it on site." Kelly Murray, from Bibliotheque Allard Regional Library in Manitoba, Canada, said: "On the back of our due date slips we have a spot for the patron to learn about their eLibraries and get a user name and password." Many more great ideas were chatted in and discussed, ranging from how to launch a successful social media campaign to clever, cost-effective ways to increase the visibility of your digital collection, and much more. These sessions helped to connect all of us as a community who share in the mission to reach more readers and help them discover great books. When we work together toward this goal, we know that we have the power to expand our reader communities around the world. If you were unable to attend the OverDrive Training Team's recent May Hot Topic webinar series, don’t worry: there is still a chance for you to join in this community of idea sharing and learn new ways to boost digital circulation and maximize your OverDrive service. Recordings of the following sessions have been archived and are available for you to view at your convenience from the Learning Center:
Questions or comments? Contact us at training@overdrive.com with feedback as well as your own ideas and success stories. You can also reach out to us for a customized training for your library on these or any other topics. Katie Blachman is a Training Specialist at OverDrive.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
What you missed in the Hot Topic webinars
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