LIBRIS
{{Short description|Swedish national union catalogue}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
LIBRIS (Library Information System) is a Swedish national union catalogue maintained by the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm. It is possible to freely search about 6.5 million titles nationwide.
In addition to bibliographic records, one for each book or publication, LIBRIS also contains an authority file of people. For each person there is a record connecting name, birth and occupation with a unique identifier.{{citation needed|date=August 2012|reason=These records are linked by VIAF but not accessible via the LIBRIS user interface, so it would be useful to have a reliable source mentioning them.}}
The MARC Code for the Swedish Union Catalog is SE-LIBR, normalized: selibr.
The development of LIBRIS can be traced to the mid-1960s. While rationalization of libraries had been an issue for two decades after World War II, it was in 1965 that a government committee published a report on the use of computers in research libraries.{{cite book |title = Databehandling i forskningsbibliotek |year = 1965 |url = http://libris.kb.se/bib/8210948 |via = LIBRIS }} Cited in {{harvp|Olsson|1995|p= 51}}. The government budget of 1965 created a research library council (Forskningsbiblioteksrådet, FBR).{{harvp|Olsson|1995|p= 55}}. A preliminary design document, Biblioteksadministrativt Information System (BAIS) was published in May 1970, and the name LIBRIS, short for Library Information System, was used for a technical subcommittee that started on 1 July 1970.{{harvp|Olsson|1995|p= 103}}. The newsletter LIBRIS-meddelanden ({{ISSN|0348-1891}}) has been published since 1972{{harvp|Olsson|1995|p= 31}}. and is online since 1997.{{cite web |url = http://www.kb.se/libris/aktuellt/LIBRIS-meddelanden/ |title = LIBRIS-meddelanden }}
See also
References
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{{cite encyclopedia |title=LIBRIS |encyclopedia=Nationalencyklopedin |language=sv |url=http://www.ne.se/libris |access-date=27 July 2010}} {{subscription required}}
{{cite web |title=LIBRIS database contents |url=http://librishelp.libris.kb.se/help/content_eng.jsp?open=about |publisher=National Library of Sweden |access-date=27 July 2010 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006101051/http://librishelp.libris.kb.se/help/content_eng.jsp?open=about |url-status=dead }}
{{cite thesis |first = Lena |last = Olsson |title = Det datoriserade biblioteket. Maskindrömmar på 70-talet |year = 1995 |type= PhD dissertation |publisher =Linköping University, Linköping Studies in Arts and Science 121 |issn = 0282-9800 |isbn = 91-7871-492-3}} [http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-35313 Abstract online].
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External links
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- {{Official website|http://libris.kb.se/|name=National Library of Sweden: LIBRIS}} (select "In English" from the top menu, default language is Swedish)
- [http://www.kb.se/libris/teknisk-information/Oppen-data/Open-Data/ Open Data], Information about LIBRIS bibliographic records and authority file as open data, 3 April 2012.
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