Create a custom collection exclusively for your patrons on your shared collection website

Take full advantage of your OverDrive-powered shared collection with the OverDrive Advantage plan. This feature gives libraries that are members of a shared collection the ability to offer patrons additional popular titles to reduce waiting lists, as well as a custom collection of titles not currently available in the shared collection.

This custom collection will be integrated with the same single download website that patrons already use. Plus, OverDrive Advantage libraries will have access to OverDrive’s catalog of 200,000 digital titles, including the largest collection of iPod®-compatible audiobooks for libraries.

Become an OverDrive Advantage member and offer your patrons:

• reduced waiting lists on popular audiobooks, eBooks & more


• a custom collection of titles developed specifically for your community


• continued access to titles you share with other libraries

How does the plan work?

• OverDrive Advantage libraries receive a special login in their system’s current Content Reserve account.


• A library’s custom collection of titles will be integrated into the existing download website, but only patrons of individual OverDrive Advantage libraries can check out these titles.


• Libraries can only add titles in the format(s) that are currently available in the shared collection.


• Loan periods and lending rules established by the consortium remain the same for the OverDrive Advantage plan titles. For example, if the loan period for audiobooks is 21-days in the consortium, then titles in your library’s custom collection will also have a 21-day loan period.


• All titles purchased under the OverDrive Advantage plan can be transferred. If a library decides to leave the consortium, OverDrive Advantage plan titles are transferable to a new OverDrive-powered download website.


• Libraries can purchase MARC records for their OverDrive Advantage titles.


• Libraries can track the success of their custom collection with Content Reserve’s real-time reports.

Who can participate?

Any library that is currently a member of an OverDrive-powered shared collection. The plan is designed for single libraries to create their own collection of digital media. The ability to authenticate library patrons as part of an individual library separate from the consortium is required.

For information on becoming an OverDrive Advantage library, contact sales@overdrive.com.