Courtesy Account for Sandbox Users!

Looking for additional content when prototyping your application?  Syndetic Solutions has provided PDN sandbox users with a courtesy account!

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Polaris Great App Challenge!

Put your skills to work! Design the next great sofware application using the Polaris® ILS API.

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Forums Now Available!

The Polaris® Developer Network Forums are now open for business. Connect with other developers.  Post questions about the Polaris® ILS API. Search the forums for possible solutions.

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Polaris on the iPhone?

Hybrid Forge's Owl iLibrary is an application designed for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad that helps libraries harness the power of the Polaris® ILS API for seamless integration with your ILS.

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Darien Library, SOPAC2 and Polaris!

Darien Library is now running SOPAC2 with the Polaris® ILS API.

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APIs & Tools

Polaris API Service

Polaris native API REST service.

SIP

3M Standard Interchange Protocol.

PowerPAC Deep Links

PowerPAC URL format specifications.

Z39.50

ANSI/NISO Z39.50 service.

NCIP

NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol.

PowerPAC Holdings Service

PowerPAC holdings web service.

Polaris provides a native API that will allow anyone to build their own Polaris-integrated applications for the web, desktop and mobile devices. Polaris also supports industry standard protocols such as NCIP, SIP and Z39.50.

Popular Docs

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Hypertext Markup Language, the core technology of the web.

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Cascading Style Sheets.

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The scripting language that powers modern web applications.

DOM
The Document Object Model describes the layout and content of web pages.

SIP
3M Standard Interchange Protocol.

NCIP
NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol.