# Loughborough University Library Catalogue API (Koha)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/library-catalogue-api/  
**Provider:** Loughborough University — https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/  
**Base URL:** https://koha.lboro.ac.uk/api/v1/  
**Documentation:** https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/library/search/

Loughborough University Library Catalogue API (Koha) is one of 7 APIs that [Loughborough University](https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Library, Library Catalog, Bibliographic, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

The REST API of Loughborough University Library's Koha integrated library system, served from the university's own koha.lboro.ac.uk host. The live description at /api/v1/ is a Swagger 2.0 document declaring host koha.lboro.ac.uk and basePath /api/v1 across 249 paths and 79 tags, nineteen of them under /public. GET /api/v1/public/libraries returns Loughborough's own branch records — London Library at Here East, the Inter-Library Loan Service, library@lboro.ac.uk — with no credential at all. Staff paths require authentication (401). Koha is community open-source software and the contract's info.contact is the Koha Development Team, so no copy of the specification is stored under Loughborough's slug; the deployment, the host and the data are Loughborough's and that is what is credited here. The instance is under managed hosting by PTFS Europe (koha.lboro.ac.uk CNAMEs to lboro.koha.servers.ptfse.net). An Anubis bot challenge fronts the HTML paths on this host; the JSON API paths pass through it.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **APIReference** — https://koha.lboro.ac.uk/api/v1/.html
- **Documentation** — https://koha.lboro.ac.uk/api/v1/
- **x-example** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/loughborough/refs/heads/main/examples/loughborough-koha-public-libraries-example.json
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/loughborough/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Loughborough University APIs (6)

- [Loughborough Learn — LTI 1.3 Advantage Platform (Moodle)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/learn-lti-platform/)
- [Loughborough University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/identity-federation/)
- [Loughborough University Library Discovery (VuFind)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/vufind-discovery/)
- [Loughborough University Research Repository (figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/research-repository/)
- [Loughborough University Reading Lists (Talis Aspire tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/reading-lists/)
- [Loughborough University Library Hours and Bookings (Springshare LibCal tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/libcal/)

## Tags

Library, Library Catalog, Bibliographic, Open Access

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/library-catalogue-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/.