New Overdrive website

by Edward Hirst  Rowan Public Library

North Carolina Digital Library recently unveiled a new website and mobile app that will make your experience with digital content from Rowan Public Library faster and easier to navigate.  The redesign includes an easy to understand availability status and links that allow for the ease of borrowing and placing requests for titles that are currently checked out.

Users can continue to use the quick search, advanced search or filters to focus their search among the many different titles and formats available. In addition, there is also a new subjects link that allows users to quickly scan all of the available subjects. A new collections menu facilitates exploring the library’s featured content. Search results are easily sorted by date added, relevance and many others. While browsing the collections menu you can use the media tabs to sort by the following formats: ebooks, audiobooks, video and magazines.

Audience filters allow users to set account level filters for certain audiences while browsing or searching. For example, parents may want to limit their children to only be able to view Juvenile or Young Adult titles with this filter.

Borrowers can now browse and search the library’s entire digital collection on any device. Previously any title that didn’t work on the device you were using at the time was hidden from your view.  Now you can borrow or place a request on any title, no matter where you are or the device you are using.

Users can now sign in to NCDigital Library with a library card number, Facebook account, or Overdrive account.  Just make sure you sign in the same way each time on that device.

Borrowers can choose the lending period for a single title right from the title details page if they want to shorten or extend the loan without changing their default lending periods.

When borrowing a title from its details page, you'll see a button suggesting the best way to get that title on your device (whether that's opening the title right in your browser or adding it to the OverDrive app).

Visit https://ncdigital.overdrive.com/ncdigital-rowan/content or http://www.rowanpubliclibrary.org to experience the new Overdrive.