Services and Operations > Standard service

Standard service

The Standard service provides operations for common library features that do not require authentication or special privileges.

The Standard service includes these operations (listed alphabetically):

Operation

Description

license

Displays license data for the Web Services instance.

lookupBestSellersDisplayList

Returns best seller display lists.

lookupBestSellerTitles

Returns a list of best seller titles.

lookupHotSites

Returns a list of hot sites.

lookupMostPopular

Returns a list of popular titles, authors, or subjects (listType). Most Popular lists are based on circulation statistics.

LookupRecommendedReadingDisplayList

Returns recommended reading display lists.

lookupRecommendedReadingTitles

Returns a list of Recommended Reading titles.

lookupTitleInfo

Displays information about specific titles, such as item availability and, optionally, other item details.

searchCatalog

Lets you search the ILS catalog based on terms and indexes (searchType) that you specify. You may optionally request that the hit list include availability info. Use searchCatalogPaging to page through results.

This is an authenticated request (it accepts but does not require a session token). Data returned may vary depending on session user.

searchCatalogPaging

Lets you page through results from a specified query.

This is an authenticated request (it accepts but does not require a session token). Data returned may vary depending on session user.

searchInfoDesk

Lets you search the ILS catalog for records that match a specified Information Desk policy. User searchCatalogPaging to page through results as needed.

searchInfoDeskPaging

Lets you page through results from a specified query of an Information Desk policy.

This is an authenticated request (it accepts but does not require a session token). Data returned may vary depending on session user.

version

Displays the version of Web Services and (if Web Services is currently connected to the ILS) the ILS software.

This section also includes elements that are referenced in these Standard service operation responses (see Referenced elements).

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