Take full advantage of your OverDrive-powered shared collection with an OverDrive Advantage plan. This feature gives libraries that are members of a shared collection
the ability to offer popular titles--exclusively for their patrons. OverDrive Advantage libraries can purchase additional copies of popular titles that are already in the shared collection, as well as titles that are not yet available.
Patrons browsing the consortium's 'Virtual Branch' website will only see titles that are available to all members. For those patrons whose member libraries have added Advantage titles, access to those titles will occur only after the patron logs in with a library card.
Advantage collections are integrated with the same single download website that patrons already use. Plus, OverDrive Advantage libraries will have access to OverDrive’s catalog of hundreds of thousands of digital titles, in virtually all subjects!
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- reduced waiting lists on popular audiobooks, eBooks & more
- a custom collection of titles developed specifically for your community
- continued access to titles you share with other libraries
...all within the same, single download website they already use!
OverDrive Advantage libraries receive a special login to their system’s current
Content Reserve account.
- A library’s Advantage collection will be integrated into the existing download website, but only patrons of individual OverDrive Advantage libraries can view
and check out these titles
- Libraries can only add titles in the format(s) that are currently available in the shared collection.
- Loan periods and lending rules established by the consortium remain the same for the OverDrive Advantage plan titles. For example, if the loan period for audiobooks is 21 days in the consortium, then titles in your library’s Advantage collection will also have a 21-day loan period.
- If a library decides to leave the consortium, the Advantage collection is transferable to a new OverDrive-powered download website.
- Libraries can purchase MARC records for their OverDrive Advantage titles.
- Libraries can track the success of their Advantage collection with Content Reserve’s real-time reports.
Any library that is currently a member of an OverDrive-powered shared collection.
The plan is designed for single libraries to create their own collection of digital media. The ability to authenticate library customers as part of an individual library separate from the consortium is required.
