MSU Libraries Catalog Record API
Record-retrieval half of the MSU Libraries VuFind 11.0.4 REST API, served from the university's own host at catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1. Keyless and read-only: GET /record, /index2/record and /web/record return bibliographic and web records from the discovery index. Verified live on 2026-08-30 — GET /api/v1/search?lookfor=test&limit=1 returned 200 with a populated SearchResponse, and GET /api/v1/record with no id returned the modelled 400 {"status":"ERROR","statusMessage":"Missing id"}. The contract is VuFind's product contract, but MSU publishes it itself from its own deployment, on its own domain, and MSU Libraries maintains its VuFind customisations publicly at github.com/MSU-Libraries/catalog.
MSU Libraries Catalog Record API is one of 7 APIs that Michigan State University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Record, Library, Library Catalog, and Bibliographic. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, and authentication docs.
This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 15 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 11.0.4.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 3
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 15
The contract defines 15 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Record (70 properties), SecondaryRecord (68 properties), Facet (6 properties), SearchResponse (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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