How to create curated and automated lists in OverDrive Marketplace
In Marketplace you can build lists of your digital titles and publish them to the Libby app and your OverDrive website.
This is a great way to showcase your digital content and boost circulation for highlighted titles.
This can also help promote your programming like author visits, community reads, and local interests.
There are two types of lists: curated or automated.
You may also consider using the Lucky Day feature
To give users immediate access to in-demand titles.
This feature lets you turn off holds and renewals
For designated copies of your titles.
You can then promote them by creating Lucky Day specific lists.
Watch our Lucky Day how to video for more information.
First how do curated lists appear on your OverDrive website and in the Libby app?
On your OverDrive website
Lists may be published in various places.
The collection at the top is known as the hero banner.
It's highlighted with a different colored background
In order to call attention to it.
This is the only space to highlight a single title if needed
Which can be really great for community reads.
The main page allows up to ten collections to be displayed in the order of your choice.
If you create more they will appear under a load more button.
Returning to the top
The collections section
Allows you to have four categories to group similar collections together.
By default, collections are organized by format.
If you would like to edit categories please contact your Account Manager.
Each category can have up to fifteen lists
E-reading rooms will appear under special.
They provide another space for additional published curated lists.
The most common rooms are filtered by audience. For example kids and teens or language.
In Libby, lists that are published to your OverDrive website homepage will also publish to the top of your library's homescreen in Libby.
As long as it has at least ten titles in the OverDrive Read or Listen format.
You may also see a campaign that your library has set up.
Scrolling down, catalog guides will mirror your e-reading rooms.
You may see a section for extras if your library added any of our databases and streaming media services.
After our published lists, general spotlight lists provided by OverDrive will be shown if users continue to scroll.
This does require the curate permission in Marketplace.
If you need help please contact your Marketplace administrator.
After you sign in
Click on curate
And standard curation
Create standard list
Here we can do a curated or automated list. Let's start with automated.
Create an eye-catching list name
And description, if desired.
On the summary page, translate the name and description in each of the languages offered on our OverDrive website and the Libby app.
If you do not enter a translation
They will appear in English when users browse
In your site's supported languages.
For example,
Scrolling down you can edit the filters.
We recommend showing all titles but available first or show available titles only to make a great first impression.
For new Spanish audiobooks we'll sort by newly added
And edit the following filters.
Keep the number of titles per collection between 25 and 200 for optimal loading times.
We'll limit the number of titles in this list to 200.
In the top right, select one or more publishing locations.
You can publish lists in various places on your digital collection site.
Remember lists published on your homepage will also publish to the top of your library's homescreen in Libby.
As long as it has at least 10 titles in the OverDrive Read or Listen format
And then publish.
Next let's create a curated list.
Curated
List name and a description
Make sure you pin this as your main list
Translate the list names under language
Adjust your filters
So now we are going to manually add titles
To do that we are going to scroll up
Complete a quick or an advanced search.
Note that now in this quick search bar
We can search for titles to curate
Since we are looking for Pulitzer Prise winners of the last decade
Going to scroll down
Under award look for Pulitzer
For the last decade we can adjust the street date
And I can leave this end date as blank and that will go to today
That we could scroll down and search
From here there are 63 titles that we own that fall within these filters.
I'm going to select all 63 results
And add it to my main list.
You can also cherry pick
And choose individual titles to add to your list.
Once ready we can click on this
Or view all of our lists.
Review titles at the bottom.
Choose a publishing location
And then publish.
Last let's organize the placement of these lists.
Go to organized published lists.
If needed select the location where you would like to rearrange collections from the left sidebar.
And scroll all the way to the bottom.
Drag and drop your collection to the order that you would like for it to show.
List updates generally appear on your website or the Libby within 30 minutes.
However some updates may take up to 24 hours.
Once you begin to create more lists you may wish to edit it
Or delete a list.
To do that we can return to standard curation.
You can view your published standard lists.
To edit, click on the hyperlinked name.
Create a draft.
Make the appropriate changes
And publish.
You can also
Delete
If you do it will unpublish from your OverDrive site and save it as a draft.
Only curated lists will save as a draft. If you delete an automated list that will delete forever.
We encourage you to keep seasonal lists as drafts that will help you save time.
Remember to update with new purchases before republishing for the next year.
That's the process for creating curated and automated lists, but we want to leave you with some additional tips.
Advantage libraries can customize the lists at their digital library.
By default Advantage libraries have the same list as their consortium.
But by setting customized Advantage lists to "yes," Advantage libraries can modify or add their own lists.
Our OverDrive team of staff librarians regularly create and update a plethora of title recommendation lists that highlights award winners, current events,
Bestsellers, pop culture, and much more.
Each link opens in Marketplace and can be moved into the curate tool with the following hack.
You can save some time by adding titles from purchase carts into curated collections.
All of these steps to grab and enter the purchase order ID.
Curation is an excellent way to personalize your digital collection.
For assistance please visit Marketplac Help
Or reach out to your Account Manager.