In addition to bibliographic records, one for each book or publication, LIBRIS also contains an authority file of people. For each person there is a record connecting name, birth and occupation with a unique identifier.{{citation needed|date=August 2012|reason=These records are linked by VIAF but not accessible via the LIBRIS user interface, so it would be useful to have a reliable source mentioning them.}}

The MARC Code for the Swedish Union Catalog is SE-LIBR, normalized: selibr.^[3]

The development of LIBRIS can be traced to the mid-1960s.^[4] While rationalization of libraries had been an issue for two decades after World War II, it was in 1965 that a government committee published a report on the use of computers in research libraries.^[1] The government budget of 1965 created a research library council (Forskningsbiblioteksrådet, FBR).^[2] A preliminary design document, Biblioteksadministrativt Information System (BAIS) was published in May 1970, and the name LIBRIS, short for Library Information System, was used for a technical subcommittee that started on 1 July 1970.^[3] The newsletter LIBRIS-meddelanden ({{ISSN|0348-1891}}) has been published since 1972^[4] and is online since 1997.^[5]

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