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The National Library Board Singapore (NLB) set up NLB Labs as a platform for collaboration to create new and innovative information services that will provide an enriched library experience for users.To this end, NLB make available several APIs and data services that can be used to create, complement or be integrated into your services to better our common customer experience.

If you are keen to collaborate with us, kindly complete the Open Web Service Application Form.

API

API key is required for access; please request for one using the Open Web Service Application Form.

API	Description
Catalogue Search	SOAP Web Service to search and retrieve physical library items and item availability at NLB's libraries. Resource: https://openweb.nlb.gov.sg/ows/CatalogueService.svc
Title Recommendation	SOAP Web Service which returns list of suggested reads from NLB's libraries, based from NLB recommendation service. Resource: https://openweb.nlb.gov.sg/ows/ReadAlikeService.svc
eResources Search	SOAP Web Service to search NLB eResources such as book title, summary and URL etc. Resource: https://openweb.nlb.gov.sg/OWS/EresourceService.svc

Note: Refer to NLB Open Web Services documentation for more details

RSS

API key is required for access; please request for one using the Open Web Service Application Form.

RSS	Description
Booklist of Popular Titles	A RSS feed of NLB items, ordered by number of loans for each Dewey Decimal number (i.e 001,002, …,999). Each DDC number has a maximum of 100 records. The list will be refreshed on a monthly basis. Resource: http://opendata.nlb.gov.sg/content/RSS.DDC.Popular/DDCNo
Library Events/ Programmes	A RSS feed of events/programmes organised by NLB libraries. Resource: http://www.nlb.gov.sg/golibrary2/rss/
NLB Library Locations	A RSS feed of all NLB libraries with library description and geo-spatial data. Resource: http://eservice.nlb.gov.sg/rss/libraries
New Arrivals (Library Items)	A RSS feed of new titles added to NLB’s libraries. Resource: http://www.nlb.gov.sg/newarrivals/rss/

Note: Refer to NLB Open Web Services documentation for more details

Datasets

Please note that the actual contents are subjected to non-commercial use.

Datasets	Description
READ! Singapore Short Stories (eBook Catalogue)	Datasets of downloadable short story ebooks from the READ! Singapore programme in Tidy Data format. Resource: https://data.gov.sg/dataset/national-library-board-read-singapore-short-stories
Malay eBooks (eBook Catalogue)	Datasets of downloadable ebooks and multimedia ebooks from Malay library collection in Tidy Data format. Resource: https://data.gov.sg/dataset/national-library-board-malay-ebooks https://data.gov.sg/dataset/national-library-board-malay-multimedia-ebooks
Infopedia (eContent Catalogue)	Datasets of articles on Singapore's history, culture, people and events in XML and Tidy Data format. Resource: https://data.gov.sg/dataset/national-library-board-infopedia-articles
NLB Authorities and NLB Original Bibliographic Records (RDF)	NLB Authorities records comprise of People, Places and Organisations terms created by NLB Knowledge Organisation team. Approximately 10,000 local authority terms (as of 16 Apr 2019) are available in this set. NLB Original Bibliographic Records were created for the PublicationSG collection. The items were collected through NLB Legal Deposit function, showcasing Singapore's published heritage. Approximately 76,000 NLB-owned bibliographic records (as of 13 May 2019). Resource: Download to view

API Terms of Service

Singapore Open Data Licence (V1.0)

API

RSS

Datasets

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