RBdigital EContent Integration

You can integrate eContent from the Recorded Books service, RBdigital, into Polaris so that patrons can search for, check out, and download these titles from the PAC.

Note:
The RBdigital integration does not create item records within Polaris because the RBdigital API provides availability as either True or False instead of providing copy counts.

The following are required for RBdigital eContent integration:

• RBdigital license key - System-only license key with the number of seats corresponding to the number of vendor accounts Innovative needs to create.
• Access to the RBdigital API - The library's firewall must allow access to api.rbdigital.com over port 443.

If your library is interested in implementing integrated eContent with Recorded Books, contact your library's Innovative Interfaces Site Manager.

The Recorded Books API provides nightly deltas of newly added or recently expired titles. The Polaris API Consumer Service uses these deltas to import new titles or identify expired titles during the overnight process. Library staff can periodically check for Recorded Books titles removed from the library's collection. The expired bibliographic records are gathered in a record set entitled RBExpiredTitles_[Date/time]. Your library can purge or retain the records.

See also:

• Creating an RBdigital Integrated Vendor Account
• Importing RBdigital Bibliographic Records
• Integrating Existing RBdigital EContent
• Integrating New RBdigital eContent
• Patron Access to RBdigital EContent
• Manually Import the RBdigital Collection