Purpose
This document is to help you connect your library's Overdrive collection to your Library Simplified circulation manager.
First, you should know that Overdrive provides a glossary that explains most of the terminology.
Getting Acces
To start connecting your library's Overdrive account to your Library Simplified circulation manager, go to the Member Center and apply for API access. You will probably need to create an Overdrive developer account.
You'll be asked which API (actually which authentication technique) you want access to. Ask for access to all three. You will probably only need two of the three, but the approval process is slow, it doesn't cost anything extra to get all three, and you won't have to go back and re-apply if your authentication situation changes.
Under "Planned API usage", mention the name of your library and that you are integrating your Overdrive collection into the SimplyE system.
It can take a week or more to get approved for API access, so don't put this off!
When Overdrive gets back to you, they may give you a website ID of 100300 and a library ID of 4425. Those are the IDs for the Overdrive test library. If this happens to you, go back to them and tell them that you need the production IDs to integrate your library into the SimplyE system.
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Overdrive distinguishes between "Discovery" and "Circulation" APIs.
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Configuring Circulation Manager
Problem
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- Step 1 Open a web browser and open your circulation manager admin interface. This is you circulation manager URL with https://circulation.libraryname-state.org/admin
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