Tartu Public Library (Tartu Public Library)

Tartu Public Library is a bibliographic database containing articles on the history and present day of the library. The database is updated daily on the basis of articles published in the media, and it retrospectively contains article records since 1913.

Search in database Tartu Public Library

Compiled by: Tartu Public Library
Feedback: halliki.jurma@luts.ee

Z39.50 is a standard international client-server, an application layer for searching and pulling data from the database. The search can be carried out in UTF-8 and MARC-8 encoding.

Connection parameters:
IP address: ester.ester.ee
Port: 212 (UTF-8), 210 (marc8)
Name of database: innopac
Data format options: MARC21, OPAC, SUTRS, XML

Via Z39.50 standard, it is possible to enquire by the following fields:
author
title
subject
word - fuzzy search across different fields
ISSN
ISBN
UDC
record number

The standard does not support the download of all online catalogue records at one time.

The guidelines in the form of a standard are available at: https://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/Z39-50-2003.pdf

For pulling the metadata of one particular publication if the record number of the system is known.

The result gives a record similar to MARCXML.

Example: https://artiklid.elnet.ee/xrecord=b2865278