Re: [IUG] Millennium and Overdrive

["Mann, James H." <JMann at gcpl dot lib dot oh dot us>]

Donna
GCPL has about 8,000 Overdrive records in our catalog. We're part of a
small Ohio consortia so our process may be a bit different than dealing
directly with Overdrive, but basically we download new records on a
monthly basis, use global update to "WAM" the 856 to a zero minus URL
and process them. Patrons who go to Overdrive via the catalog
authenticate, and are taken to Overdrive where they do the usual things.
You can see an example by searching our catalog for keyword Overdrive or
title "Surf's Up" at https://library.gcpl.lib.oh.us
Frankly most patrons come at Overdrive from our homepage and bookmark
the MOLDI site.
You can see it here:
http://www.greenelibrary.info/Services/Digital-Collections.html
Overdrive also offers an in-library option called the "download"
station. This is basically a custom URL on a computer with Media Player
and Active Sync. Patrons may test their device and the splash screen
offers (mostly) always available titles so while you can use the
download station to place a hold on a title you also get instant
gratification and can download a 4 or 5 part audio book in 30 minutes or
so. Here's what our version of the download station looks like:
http://digitalbooks.moldi.org/6192D462-E9B0-454E-9D5F-12A9A52F4D35/90/21
1/en/Default.htm

HTH


 

Jim Mann

Technology Coordinator

Greene County Public Library

Xenia Ohio 45385

(937)352-4000 x1210

mailto: jmann at gcpl dot lib dot oh dot us

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-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Brenda K.
Giovanneillo
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:53 AM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Re: [IUG] Millennium and Overdrive

Donna, ALIS has a number of libraries using OverDrive quite
successfully. We had to allow the OverDrive servers through our firewall
and allow access for Patron API for validation, which was routine.

OverDrive has been good to work with. We have begun to load bib records
for the OverDrive collection, and that has been fine as well. We have
tweaked the bibs by adding some coding so that I can round them up when
I need to and the patrons can better find them, but that too is
something we do routinely as well.

The organizer of our OverDrive COnsortium is George Trepp. He can be
reached at 516-432-7201....

Best regards,

Brenda Giovanneillo
ALIS
-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Peterson [mailto:dpeterson at co dot carver dot mn dot us]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 05:08 PM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: [IUG] Millennium and Overdrive

Does anyone use Overdrive? How does it interact with Millennium? Any
tips or tricks you can share? I checked the archives and all I found was
a message from Sept 2007 from someone asking the same question. I didn't
find anything in CSDirect either. I have put this in the Cataloging
Forum (Early Bird session on Tues) for the IUG, so if I don't get any
answers here, hopefully they'll have some answers. Please make note of
new email address! Donna L. Peterson Technical Services Manager Carver
County Library System 4 City Hall Plaza Chaska, MN 55318 email:
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