The Libby App is OverDrive’s most updated app for connecting seamlessly to your favorite eMaterials with advanced syncing, tags and searching capabilities. In late 2021, it was announced that the legacy OverDrive app would be discontinued in favor of the Libby app. The OverDrive family of services includes Kanopy, TeachingBooks, Sora, and, of course, Libby, the library reading app. OverDrive was launched as a content distribution service in 2000 and it has since grown to be the largest digital content catalog in the world.

OverDrive as a company was founded in 1986 and was reorganized around electronic media in the 1990s. Libby is actually an evolution of the OverDrive app that more than 88,000 libraries use worldwide. I was surprised and pleased to find out that they had upgraded to an app called Libby which is actually a current “Editors Choice” app in the App Store. That said this horrid remark but the council person made me look into the services the library was providing now. Because of its quirks, I fell out of touch with it though. The app was not very functional in comparison to apps such as Kindle but it got the job done…mostly. I remembered how a few years ago our library system had an app and I ended up listening to the majority of one of my favorite reference books - Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney by Lee Cockerell - on it. We were always encouraged to read growing up and because of that, I’ve always had a love of libraries. Some of my earliest memories are of visiting our hometown library with my mom and my brother to borrow some fun books on the weekends. To provide a collection of materials for the public to use for learning and expanding their world view. I’ve always loved visiting libraries and I love the mission of them. This comment made me want to invest more time in my personal connection to our library system. James Raben, Vanderburgh County Council 1/4/23 Extending and building more new libraries when their own board admittedly says there is no foot traffic and we nee to be considering closing them. It’s like investing in typewriters today.

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