Linking from Libraries Australia – Information for Booksellers

Libraries Australia is a vast catalogue of over 42 million books, journals, newspapers, pictures, maps and much more located in over 800 Australian libraries.  It also contains information on all books published in Australia, written by Australians or about Australia.

Do you want a link to your bookshop from Libraries Australia?

We can provide links to your bookshop in two ways:

  1. We can provide a link to your Website
  2. We can provide a follow-on search of your database for an item found in Libraries Australia. This is the preferred option, as it lets the user know immediately which bookshops have the item available.

To be able to use the second option, we need some details from you.

In order to implement this function we need to be able to search the bookshop using a "web services" API. In particular, we would like to be able to construct a URL which will search the bookshop database using either an ISBN or author/title query and have the search results returned in XML. The returned XML document would need to contain a list of matching records with each record having the title of the item and the URL to the item in separate XML fields. Using such an API, we can configure Libraries Australia so that it links directly to the page describing the item on your web site.

If you require further information or wish to have a link set up to your bookshop,  email the Libraries Australia Help desk at librariesaustralia@nla.gov.au  or phone 1800 026 155.