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Updates to OverDrive Read and OverDrive Listen

OverDrive has recently made the following updates to OverDrive Read and OverDrive Listen to enhance the browser-based reading and listening experience for your community.

OverDrive Read

  • Updated the menu icon.
  • Changed “Readability Settings” to “Reading Settings” and updated its menu icon.
  • Added sepia as a lighting option in “Reading Settings.”

OverDrive Listen

Grants for Digitization Projects: WHS Mini-Grants

The annual mini-grant program from the Wisconsin Council for Local History and the Wisconsin Historical Society supports projects and activities that strengthen a local organization’s ability to manage and preserve historical collections. Only historical organizations that are affiliates of WHS are eligible to apply. Public libraries may develop projects in collaboration with local historical organizations, but the grant application must be submitted by the local affiliate.

Grants For Digitization Projects: Common Heritage, NEH

This grant program from the National Endowment for the Humanities supports day-long events organized by community cultural institutions, which members of the public are invited to attend. At these events, experienced staff will digitize the community historical materials brought in by the public. Project staff will also record descriptive information provided by community attendees about the historical materials. Contributors will be given a free digital copy of their items to take home, along with the original materials.

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