Ebooks: OverDrive Releases Circulation APIs
From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog:
The Circulation APIs will allow approved partners to request checkouts, downloads, holds, and returns from within their own discovery interface. This means users will now be able to browse and search their library’s digital collection, see what’s available and check out a title or place a hold all without ever leaving the library OPAC.
Critical to this new technology is OverDrive’s Patron Authentication API which will enable partners who can authenticate patrons to interact with OverDrive services to execute circulations and to acquire OverDrive account details (i.e., “bookshelves”) about their patrons. This means that patrons will also be able to access their OverDrive accounts, again, while remaining at their library’s website, alongside all of the other materials on their library account.
See Also: Other OverDrive APIs
Filed under: Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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