Student data sits with vendors you did not choose. These are the records a district can actually act on.
A hacking group says it took 4 million records from the company that runs your school library catalog. Nobody has confirmed it. More than two months later, Follett still hasn't said a word. Both of those facts matter, and not in the order you'd think.
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OverDrive built a new product out of how reading happens inside Libby and Sora.
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Part of the Digital lending record
A patron asks why she can't save the ebook she borrowed from Libby. You explain it disappears when the lending period ends. She asks why. You realize you've never fully explained why. Here's the answer.
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Part of the Digital lending record
Most patrons think the app is the library. It isn't. It's OverDrive, and OverDrive is owned by KKR, the same private-equity firm that owns Simon & Schuster. One owner, sitting on both sides of the deal. Disclosure: I worked at OverDrive from 2008 to 2011.
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