OverDrive: “I Had No Idea!” Promotion Ideas to Grow Your Digital Library FETC, January 2019 Introduce ourselves This is a common exclamation from anyone who first learns about OverDrive Our goal is to make OverDrive a given or expectation as part of our school library

Visible Collaborative Easy Fun Let’s Make OverDrive... How do we make this happen? Through Awareness Add transition to make each point appear one at a time

Make OverDrive Visible Daily School Library Website ClassLink Whenever students sign into our library lab computers or to the library from their device, they see the OD icon This year our school moved to a single sign on system, ClassLink, and OD is also there

Make OverDrive Visible to Stakeholders Students: Orientations (6-9) Parents: Back-to-School Groups with Unique Needs School Communication Faculty and Staff: Access for everyone Preplanning Faculty Meeting Professional Development Add Ashley’s parent night video-waiting on video from english department Orientations New division, new year: students come to library to get an overview 6th grade privilege coming to HS library Show students the website and specifically talk about OD Have all students get the app and add LHP Library Parents Ashley talks about library as part of English class visit Edison program- as part of ways library can help students with special needs, discuss the adaptability of OD Part of admin letter and school publication The Tartan, student newspaper Faculty and Staff All have access to OD Preplanning faculty meetings

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Make OverDrive Collaborative Partner with teachers Independent Reading Project Book Trailers Partner with students What do you want us to add? Selections are private, diverse Partner with Programs State Reading Selections Summer Reading Ashley will add picture of app and anything else pertaining to the project Teachers: English teachers Students: Ashley will give anecdote about importance of privacy Programs: SSYRA (add symbol) FTR Add other pictures to represent text

Make OverDrive Easy Seamless integration with Follett/Destiny catalog Sample Text Browse by collection, privately Hassle free notification/return Easy to add to catalog Students search for a book OverDrive selections appear with physical book option Click Open or Play and directed to OverDrive Can sample it to see if it’s right for you No return hassles For the librarians out there, easy to add a book- receive MARC records, upload, and it’s in the catalog

Make OverDrive Fun In-STALL-ments Book Tasting Displays Book Challenge Book Trailers Add picture of Ashley’s InSTALLment

Change “I Had No Idea” to… “This is Awesome!”

Cindy Wray: US/MS Librarian Lake Highland Preparatory School (FL) Thank you for joining us! Cindy Wray: US/MS Librarian Ashley Stamper: MS Library Assistant Lake Highland Preparatory School (FL) cwray@lhps.org astamper@lhps.org Time for the raffle!