About Libris (Kungliga biblioteket)
Libris holds 20M+ bibliographic records from Swedish research and public libraries, back to the earliest Swedish printing. Kahubi wraps the Libris XL search API: free-text search with type and year filters, and full record lookup. Results link to the Libris record and the holding libraries.
Questions you can ask Libris
Type them into Kahubi’s chat once Libris is connected.
“Which Swedish doctoral theses on folk high schools (folkhögskolor) have been published since 2000?”
What comes back: Libris records with title, author, year, publisher and record link, so you can see which libraries hold each thesis.
“Find the first Swedish translation of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and give me the full bibliographic record.”
What comes back: The matching edition with translator, publisher, year and physical description, linked to its Libris record.
Libris MCP tools
The 2 tools the Libris server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
libris_searchSearch the Libris union catalogue (20M+ records from Swedish research and public libraries).
libris_get_recordFetch one Libris record by id (the id from libris_search, e.g.
Using Libris in Kahubi
- Hosted by Kahubi. Kahubi runs this server itself so it stays reliable enough for research use.
- Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
- Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Libris.
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