Maximize Your Circulation
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With your Digital Library Reserve platform from OverDrive, you will receive assistance from our Partner Services Team. We provide expert training, collection development support, and promotional assistance to help you maximize digital circulation.
Collection Development
OverDrive offers a variety of services to optimize your collection. Our Collection Development Specialist can create an opening day selection, recommend title lists (e.g., New York Times best sellers, subject-specific, etc.), and offer tips and tricks for growing your digital collection and increasing circulation. Sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter ContentWire, which highlights the latest titles and publishers added to our catalog.
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Training
Your library staff will receive training on all features of your digital library to provide staff with the knowledge to assist patrons. Training sessions cover topics such as Collection Development, Digital Library 101, Reports and Statistics, Patron Support/Troubleshooting, and Best Practices for Maximizing Digital Circulation. Training is conducted using web and audio conference tools (toll-free dial-in) and can be recorded for you to share with library staff indefinitely.
Promotional Assistance
Raising awareness of your digital library is an important success factor. Your partnership with OverDrive includes promotional and outreach assistance at no additional cost. Our Partner Services Team of account coordinators and graphic artists offer standard or custom print materials (bookmarks, posters, brochures, etc.), web collateral, PR, and other ideas for helping you get the word out.
Marketing Kit
The following collection of samples and ideas will help you promote your 'virtual branch' in and outside the library. Click on each link to see samples.
- Web Graphics: Place a link on your library's homepage and OPAC to direct patrons to your digital site.
- Promotional Materials: Get the word out by distributing and displaying marketing materials in the library
and around your community.
- Public Relations: Promote your digital library in a press release, email, or an article in your library
newsletter.
- Best Practices Handbook: Learn how OverDrive libraries around the world are maximizing the value of their digital library, with examples of successful collection development, library staff training, and promotional activities. To request a copy, please email partnerservices@overdrive.com. Please note: The handbook is available for library partners only.
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Contact us at partnerservices@overdrive.com, and we'll help you extend the reach of your digital library.
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