OverDrive is a mission-based company that stands with libraries. To find a public library near you, download the Libby app (iOS, Android) or visit About OverDrive Libraries use Libby to reach their community and introduce their valuable programs and free online services. This allows patrons to discover and express interest in titles that are not yet in their local library’s collection. New features are consistently being added in Libby, including the Notify Me feature which is currently being piloted by 60 libraries. With the scheduled discontinuation of the legacy OverDrive app in April 2023, millions more readers will upgrade to Libby. Libby has been downloaded by millions of readers and has earned thousands of 5-star reviews, a 4.8 Apple App Store rating and 4.1 Google Play store rating. Libby’s intuitive user interface provides an easy and enjoyable user experience for fiction or nonfiction books (ebook or audiobook), comic books, graphic novels, magazines, cookbooks and Read-Alongs. Launched in June 2017, Libby provides 24/7 access to library ebooks and audiobooks in a streamlined reading app. As inflation has increased and families struggle with household budgets, free content from the public library has become a staple for many readers throughout the country and around the world. Consequently, more people than ever discovered the benefits of borrowing ebooks and digital audiobooks from their public library.
Libraries played a critical role during COVID, providing essential services even while most buildings were closed. We are proud to be a part of Libby’s success story, and even prouder to be part of the success story of Arkansas’ great public libraries.” “The Arkansas Digital Library Consortium has exponentially expanded the reading and learning choices that are available to Arkansans, and providing Libby’s billionth checkout is a joyful reminder of that impact. “This is the happiest of accidents,” said Jennifer Chilcoat, Director of the Arkansas State Library.
The title – An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena, a murder mystery released in 2018 – reinforces the growing reality that readers of all ages use their local library to enjoy digital books of all genres, in addition to the most popular and trending new releases. The one billionth checkout in Libby occurred on January 21 through a member public library of the Arkansas Digital Library Consortium. The Libby app, created by OverDrive, is used in over 22,000 public libraries and thousands of colleges, universities, corporate libraries and learning centers. Accessing libraries for reading is a “joyful” antidote to inflationĬLEVELAND – Janu– As public libraries continue their mission to serve their communities, a major milestone was reached for the most popular ebook, audiobook, magazine and comics app for library patrons: one billion digital books borrowed in Libby, the library reading app.
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