LIBRIS

LIBRIS (Library Information System) is a Swedish national union catalogue maintained by the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm.^[1] It is possible to freely search about 6.5 million titles nationwide.^[2]

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]}

The MARC Code for the Swedish Union Catalog is SE-LIBR, normalized: selibr.^[3]

The development of LIBRIS can be traced to the mid-1960s.^[4] 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.^[5] The government budget of 1965 created a research library council (Forskningsbiblioteksrådet, FBR).^[6] 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.^[7] The newsletter LIBRIS-meddelanden (ISSN 0348-1891) has been published since 1972^[8] and is online since 1997.^[9]

• Swedish library classification system

Wikidata has the property:

• SELIBR ID (P906) (see uses)

• National Library of Sweden: LIBRIS (select "In English" from the top menu, default language is Swedish)
• Open Data, Information about LIBRIS bibliographic records and authority file as open data, 3 April 2012.