Our Overdrive Experience
Our school was one of the early adaptors of eBooks and audiobooks and made the decision nearly five years ago to purchase the Overdrive digital library platform. In the beginning the content was heavily American but now we are able to find a lot more popular and relevant Australian material. I don't have any trouble spending the $2000 credit each year (The annual subscription fee is $4000 - of which $2000 is allocated for the purchase of eBooks and audio books.)
The Overdrive marketing department provide you with a plethora of promotional material which they will adapt for your own school's needs.
This year 107 audiobooks and 1026 eBooks have been downloaded.
In the last 30 days (which includes the Term 3 holiday break) there were 169 checkouts.
These statistics reinforce the importance of school libraries being able to offer content to their users in both digital and print format. We are very happy with Overdrive and would recommend it to other school libraries who have a generous budget allocation.
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