Announcing the next Big Library Read title
The next Big Library Read kicks off on November 1. And we’re excited to announce the selection is:
Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
A "page-turning thriller that will keep readers guessing until the very end" (School Library Journal) about a road trip in a snowstorm that turns into bone-chilling disaster, from New York Times bestselling mystery author and "master of tension" (BCCB) Natalie D. Richards.
Get your community excited about Big Library Read
Download marketing materials to help get the word out.
And readers can use #biglibraryread on social media for a chance to win a tablet, Libby swag and signed books by the author. See the official rules.
Five Total Strangers will be available for simultaneous use in ebook and audiobook formats on Libby & the OverDrive app between November 1-15
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Advantage Plus
Many of the libraries starting Advantage accounts have asked about how to set up Advantage Plus. Here are the promised directions.
- Sign into OverDrive Marketplace with your Advantage credentials.
- Select the Admin drop-down, then Advantage Plus.
- Select Create new.
- Choose criteria to determine which titles are eligible to be shared or moved.
- When you set up a plan, you'll choose to include or exclude titles based on:
- Latest checkout date
- Whether there are active checkouts or holds (sharing only)
- Format (ebook/audiobook/video)
- Lending model
- Pre-sale and on-sale dates
- Date added to the Advantage collection
- Preorder status
- Choose if you'd like the plan to run automatically and how often. If the plan runs automatically, all eligible titles are shared or moved.
- Select Save.
A reminder for those who haven't set theirs to run automatically .... is it time to run it again?
Upcoming compatibility changes
After September 30, 2021, the web certificate provider Let's Encrypt will no longer support certain older operating systems and browsers (learn more). Let's Encrypt certificates are used to create secure connections on many websites and apps, including those from OverDrive.
This internet-wide security change will result in a security warning for less than 1% of OverDrive users, which they can resolve by updating their operating system or browser version.
What's the impact on users?
Users on iOS 9 are most likely to be affected by this change. We estimate that iOS 9 users account for less than 1% of total OverDrive users.
After this change, users on unsupported operating systems and browsers will see a security warning or a "your connection is not private" message when using Libby, the OverDrive app, or your library's OverDrive website.
If a user continues despite the security warning, their data could be compromised since we can’t verify that users seeing this message are connecting with a legitimate server. Please note that OverDrive does not control the message displayed within the security warning, and messaging may vary based on the user’s platform and browser.
What should impacted users do?
Users who encounter this warning should update their operating system or browser version (if an update is available).
All iOS devices that were released after 2012 can update to iOS 10 or newer, which will work after this change. Here are steps to help iOS users update their operating system version.
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