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  1. Open a web browser and enter the URL to your Circulation Manager's Admin interface: for example, https://simplye.libraryname-state.org/admin 
  2. In the top menu bar, click System Configuration to enter into the Configuration Manager portion of the Admin interface.
  3. Click the Collections item from the left menu.
  4. Click Create a new collection
  5. Select the Overdrive item from the Protocol drop down field.
  6. Fill in the configuration form:
    1. Under Name, enter a descriptive phrase for the collection: for example, XYZ Consortium Overdrive
    2. Skip the Parent field if it is displayed
      Note: If this is the first Overdrive collection you have created in the Circulation Manager, the Parent field is not present.
    3. Under Library ID, enter the corresponding ID from your credentials email provided by Overdrive
      Note: If Overdrive's library ID starts with a zero, you'll probably have better results if you omit the zero.
    4. Under Website ID, enter the corresponding ID from your credentials email provided by Overdrive
    5. Under Client Key, enter the key provided by Overdrive
    6. Under Client Secret, enter string provided by Overdrive

    7. Select the appropriate library record from the Add Library drop down list
    8. In the library sub-form which displays, in the ILS Name field, enter the Library ILS name string provided by Overdrive
    9. Also in the library sub-form, in the Default Loan Period field, enter the length of the library's ebook loans
    10. When you have finished the library sub-form, click the Add Library button to enable titles from this collection to be displayed in the library's SimplyE browse feeds
    11. When you have reviewed the form and are ready, click the Submit button to create the Overdrive collection. If the Circulation Manager management scripts are all running, an ingest process for existing title metadata from Overdrive will begin within the hour.

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