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Vote for the Next Big Library Read Title

Voting is now open for the next Big Library Read! This time around the focus is on adult humor nonfiction and you are invited to help OverDrive select the next title to be read worldwide. Don’t wait, voting ends February 7th!

Vote now!

Help spread the word by encouraging your library users to vote, too! And don’t forget to use the official hashtag #biglibraryread when announcing it on social media.

OverDrive News: Public Libraries Reach 225 Million Digital Checkouts in 2017

Last year, OverDrive's 40,000 library and school partners circulated a quarter of a billion eBooks and audiobooks through their OverDrive-powered collections. The more than 225 million borrowed titles represent a 14% growth in checkouts from 2016! Here are some factors that helped that along:

Wisconsin's Digital Library Joins the Digital Dash

The Digital Dash is a checkout challenge for Wisconsin's Digital Library to reach record numbers in ebook and digital audiobook checkouts. If we meet or surpass our (very specific!) goal of 4,347,351 checkouts by end of day on December 31st, the library will be entered for a chance to win up to $1000 in content credit and/or have $5000 in holds fulfilled.

To help reach this goal, here are a bunch of resources to help boost usage of Wisconsin's Digital Library:

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