LIBRIS (Library Information System) is a
Swedish national
union catalogue maintained by the
National Library of Sweden
The National Library of Sweden ( sv, Kungliga biblioteket, ''KB'', meaning "the Royal Library") is Sweden's national library. It collects and preserves all domestic printed and audio-visual materials in Swedish, as well as content with Swedis ...
in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...
.
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.
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. The government budget of 1965 created a research library council (''Forskningsbiblioteksrådet'', FBR). 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. The newsletter ''LIBRIS-meddelanden'' () has been published since 1972 and is online since 1997.
See also
*
Swedish library classification system
References
External links
* (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.
{{Authority control
Libraries in Sweden
Library cataloging and classification