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Library Catalog

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Providers using this tag (6)

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Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented

APIs with this tag (25)

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Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
University of Chicago Library Catalog API (VuFind)The Library's discovery layer is VuFind, self-hosted at catalog.lib.uchicago.edu and forked in the institut...36.3Catalogo Coletivo ULisboa (Koha) — OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 interface over the union library catalog of the 18 schools, the National Museum of Natural Hist...35.9Emory Libraries Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)Library discovery and catalog search for Emory Libraries runs on Ex Libris Primo VE. The Emory entry point ...34.8Cornell University Library Catalog Search APIJSON search over Cornell University Library's catalog. The catalog is the library's own Blacklight deployme...32.6UMD Discover — library discovery layerUMD's library catalog and discovery layer, delivered as Ex Libris Primo through the University System of Ma...30.8MSU Libraries Catalog Record APIRecord-retrieval half of the MSU Libraries VuFind 11.0.4 REST API, served from the university's own host at...30.2MSU Libraries Catalog Search APISearch half of the same MSU Libraries VuFind 11.0.4 REST API on catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1 — GET /search, /...30.2BruKnow Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenant)Brown University Library's discovery layer. search.library.brown.edu redirects to bruknow.library.brown.edu...30.1IIT Kanpur PKK Library Koha REST APIThe REST API of the Koha 23.11 integrated library system that the P.K. Kelkar Library self-hosts at libserv...28.8University of Bristol Library Discovery (OCLC WorldCat Discovery)TENANT RELATIONSHIP, NOT A BRISTOL CONTRACT. Bristol's library discovery layer is an OCLC WorldCat Discover...27.2
Emerging 13 Early or largely undocumented
LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma)LSE library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at librarysearch.lse.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to lse.primo.exli...25.4University of Alberta Library Catalogue (Alma Z39.50 + Primo VE)The library's discovery and catalogue layer is Ex Libris. The library publishes its own Z39.50 production s...24.6Library Sierra API (Innovative Interfaces)The library management system's Sierra REST API, live on the University of Glasgow Library's own catalogue ...23.7WorldCat Discovery (OCLC tenancy)The University of Glasgow Library's discovery layer, operated for the university by OCLC on a Glasgow-scope...23.7University of Rochester Library Discovery — Ex Libris Primo VE tenancyRiver Campus Libraries discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE under the institution-specific view identifier ...22.1USC Libraries Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE, Tenant)USC Libraries' catalog and discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE as institution view 01USC_INST:01USC ...21.6HUJI Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenant)Library discovery for the Hebrew University's library system, running on Ex Libris Primo under institution ...21.0ENS-PSL Library Catalogue (Koha REST + OAI-PMH)The catalogue of the ten ENS-PSL libraries, hosted at catalogue.bib.ens.psl.eu under the institution's own ...20.6Loughborough University Library Catalogue API (Koha)The REST API of Loughborough University Library's Koha integrated library system, served from the universit...19.3UNC Libraries Catalog Search API (TRLN Discovery / Blacklight)The UNC University Library catalog answers machine-readable search over its full bibliographic index at /ca...19.3Wuhan University Library catalog (Ex Libris Aleph tenant)The library's online public access catalog at opac.lib.whu.edu.cn, running Ex Libris Aleph — the root docum...18.3UCSI University Library Catalog (Koha)The Tan Sri Musa Mohamad Library runs a Koha open-source integrated library system whose OPAC is served fro...18.2LONTAR Library OPACThe University of Indonesia Library online public access catalogue, served at lib.ui.ac.id (lontar.ui.ac.id...16.6

Companies reaching this through an API (18)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Library Catalog” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Brown University Cornell University Hebrew University of Jerusalem London School of Economics and Political Science University of Alberta University of Bristol University of California, Santa Barbara University of Chicago University of Glasgow University of Indonesia University of Lisbon University of Maryland College Park University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Rochester University of Southern California University of Warwick Wuhan University École Normale Supérieure de Paris

Score breakdown

Frequency
39.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
42.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Koha 5 co-occurrences Campus Life 6 co-occurrences Digital Collections 6 co-occurrences IIIF 5 co-occurrences Registrar 5 co-occurrences Course Catalog 11 co-occurrences University 24 co-occurrences

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