OverDrive API Notices
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07-FEB-2020 - Coming in March: Hold Redelivery
As an update to our previous message, hold redelivery is scheduled to go live the week of March 2, 2020. Hold redelivery will replace auto-checkout and will give readers more control over their holds … more
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25-NOV-2019 - Coming soon: Hold Redelivery
In early 2020, to give readers more control over their holds, we’re replacing auto-checkout with a new feature called hold redelivery. Hold redelivery will allow users to suspend a hold even … more
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05-MAR-2019 - Early Return Locked-in Items
We’ve updated the Checkouts API to allow you to early return a title even after a format has been locked in. This means that the earlyReturn action will always populate after you make a … more
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11-FEB-2019 - Early Return Locked-in Items
We’re updating the Checkouts API to allow you to early return a title even after a format has been locked in. This means that the earlyReturn action will always populate after you make a … more
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01-AUG-2018 - OverDrive Magazines
OverDrive has recently added Magazines as a new format available to libraries. This content will be available on a participating library's OverDrive site and can also be discovered and borrowed … more
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22-JUN-2018 - Coming Soon: Magazines
OverDrive has recently added Magazines as a new format available to libraries. This content will be available on a participating library's OverDrive site and can also be discovered through the … more
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02-MAY-2018 - Outage Resolved
Public API services are operating normally again. The timeframe of this incident was approximately 163 minutes, beginning at 8:00 AM EDT. We will continue to monitor the service closely. Please see … more
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02-MAY-2018 - Outage Identified
OverDrive API Partners,
In our continued efforts to provide the very best service to our partners and our customers, we want to alert you to a degradation of service in the OverDrive APIs.
We are … more
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15-AUG-2017 - Library Website URLs Update Complete
OverDrive API Partners,
On 15-AUG-2017, OverDrive introduced the new URL syntax for our library websites in our Account and Search API responses. The main drive behind this change is to ensure users … more
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15-AUG-2017 - Library Website URLs Update
OverDrive API Partners,
On 12-OCT-2016, OverDrive introduced a new URL syntax for our library websites and began to populate MARC records (field 856) with this new syntax. Beginning on 15-AUG-2017, … more