Get Marc API

This is a web service used to retrieve marc records data from University of Illinois Library given a Bib Id, or MMS ID.

The URL format is as follows: /api/record?{query}.

This will retrieve a MARC Record corresponding to the given identifier query. The identifier in the query can be one of the following:

Bib ID

This was the most common way to retrieve a MARC record until the switch to ALMA and focusing on MMS ID.

Format: mms_id={id}

MMS ID

Identifier assigned by ALMA. This is now the default

bib_id={id}