Bib Availability status API returns the availability statuses of items associated with the bibliographic record. Since it returns availability statuses of all items associated with a bib, it is likely to be used in partner ILS' Discovery systems to retrieve and display multiple item and their statuses in case of serials and multi volume monographs. The API also accepts both the owning institution's bibliographic id (the id used internally in the partner's ILS) and the bibliographic id generated by SCSB. The institutionId value needs to mention which institution's bibliographicId is being passed.

Requests prior to SCSB

Items that were requested and are out of ReCAP before the SCSB system went live are also marked as 'Not Available' by SCSB. This is done by translating GFA LAS' item statuses to SCSB's as defined in this sheet.

Request - Bib Availability Status

{
  "bibliographicId": "773931", // Owning Institution's (CUL's) bibliographic id used internally in partner's ILS
  "institutionId": "CUL" // The owning institution's id. Possible values are PUL, CUL, NYPL, HL or SCSB.
}

Request - Bib Availability Status

{
  "bibliographicId": "2590526", //SCSB's bibliographic record id
  "institutionId": "SCSB"
}

Response - Bib Availability Status

[
  {
    "itemBarcode": "33433011172446",
    "itemAvailabilityStatus": "Not Available", // Item is not in ReCAP facility
    "errorMessage": null
  },
  {
    "itemBarcode": "33433011172438",
    "itemAvailabilityStatus": "Available", // Item is in ReCAP facility
    "errorMessage": null
  }
]

Alternate Response - Bib Availability Status

[
  {
    "itemBarcode": null,
    "itemAvailabilityStatus": null,
    "errorMessage": "Bib Id doesn't exist in SCSB database." // Bibliographic record doesn't exist is SCSB
  }
]

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