NOBLE’s OverDrive collection includes ebooks, audiobooks and magazines. Most ebooks and audiobook copies can only be checked out by one user at a time, so patrons may need to place holds and wait for some titles. We do have some Simultaneous Access audiobook collections, which can be checked out by any number of patrons at the same time, and a Simultaneous Access Magazine collection.
NOBLE participate in the Reciprocal Lending Agreement with other Massachusetts consortia. This means that library users from Minuteman, MVLC, CW MARS and the other consortia can check items out from our collection, and our users can use their NOBLE cards to log in to the other consortia’s sites and borrow their items. Patrons from within a consortium have holds priority over patrons visiting from other consortia. The Simultaneous Access collections are not included in the Reciprocal Lending Arrangement.
OverDrive Status
OverDrive Diversity Audit
- Diversity Audit Report
- Diversity Audit Supplemental Material
- OverDrive Diversity Audit: Report — Screencast
- OverDrive Diversity Audit: BISAC — Screencast
OverDrive Advantage
NOBLE libraries may participate in the OverDrive Advantage Plus program, which gives your library with a way to fund copies that will be available to all users but with holds priority for your patrons. Advantage libraries do their own selection, and can choose additional copies for a title already in the collection, or can add new titles. Advantage orders are associated with the library’s billing account, and libraries pay OverDrive directly. NOBLE provides the cataloging for new titles.
Advantage libraries can also curate their own collections to supplement or replace the collections on NOBLE OverDrive site. Participating libraries have their own custom URL to point patrons directly to their curated page, and patrons who login through the NOBLE OverDrive site will get their library’s customized site when they log in. Libby will also display the library’s curated collections based on the library card used to login.
To join OverDrive Advantage, you need to order send in an enrollment form that includes an initial order of three copies. There’s no other cost to joining and no minimum number of copies you need to order to maintain your participation. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Thomsen, et@noblenet.org.
OverDrive Accounts and Selection
- OverDrive for NOBLE Advantage Selectors — Slides
- OverDrive Advantage Accounts — Understanding how OverDrive sets up accounts for Advantage users, and how you to add, modify and delete staff user accounts
- OverDrive Advantage Guide for Selectors
OverDrive Curation
- NOBLE OverDrive Advantage Guide to Curation
- Advantage Curation Tips and Tricks — A helpful handout from OverDrive
- OverDrive Pages that can be curated — Curation is not just the home page, there are 13 different pages you can customize with your own collections
- Curation Made Easy — A helpful handout from OverDrive on how to make a curated collection from a Featured List
- Using an OverDrive Featured List to Make a Curated Collection — NOBLE screencast on how to make a curated collection from a Featured List
OverDrive Statistics
NOBLE Dashboard: OverDrive Page — OverDrive checkout and collection statistics are posted monthly on the OverDrive page of the NOBLE Dashboard
Resources from Overdrive
- Meet Libby — OverDrive’s interactive demo of the Libby app
- OverDrive Help — OverDrive’s Help site with information, videos and other useful information for using OverDrive with different devices.
- Marketing and Outreach — Promotional graphics and other resources
OverDrive Training
- Upcoming Webinars — Sign up for scheduled live webinars (click on registration for the next instance of each webinar to see the list of scheduled dates
- On Demand Webinars — Watch recorded webinars whenever you want
- How-To Videos — Helpful videos with PDFs on MarketPlace, Libby and the OverDrive app
- Training Kits — Resources for training patrons
Overdrive News
- OverDrive’s Library Blog — News and features about OverDrive, with an option to subscribe to updates by e-mail
- OverDrive for Libraries Facebook page — Another way to follow OverDrive library news
- OverDrive on Twitter