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]

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^ Olsson (1995), p. 31.
^ "LIBRIS-meddelanden".

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[5] Databehandling i forskningsbibliotek. 1965 – via LIBRIS. Cited in Olsson (1995), p. 51.

[6] Olsson (1995), p. 55.

[7] Olsson (1995), p. 103.

[8] Olsson (1995), p. 31.

[9] "LIBRIS-meddelanden".

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