Setting Up Titles to Go

With the Polaris Titles to Go service, you can quickly check a title’s availability at your supplier’s site and bring back bibliographic, pricing, inventory, and binding data directly into the purchase order line item in Polaris. Currently, Titles to Go operates with the following book suppliers: Ingram Books, Inc. (Ingram), Baker & Taylor (B&T), Brodart, and United Library Services (ULS).

Before you can enable Titles to Go in Polaris, do the following:

• Contact your Innovative Interfaces Site Manager and explain that you want to use Titles to Go.

• Record the following authentication data for querying your suppliers:

  • Baker & Taylor (B&T) - You do not need to contact B&T before using Titles to Go. The username will always be GIS (case sensitive), and the password will always be Polaris (case sensitive).

  • Brodart - Contact Brodart to get a username and password to use Titles to Go.

  • Ingram - Contact Ingram to get a username to use Titles to Go. Ingram provides a form on their EDI ordering page for customers who want to use Titles to Go.

  • United Library Services (ULS) - Contact ULS to get a username and password to use Titles to Go. (ULS is a Canadian supplier).

• Ensure that the Supplier records in Polaris have the correct supplier SAN:

  • Baker & Taylor (B&T) - SAN is 1556150

  • Brodart - SAN is 1697684

  • Ingram - SAN is 1697978

  • United Library Services (ULS) - SAN is 1699342

See also:

•  Enable Titles to Go for your suppliers.