columbia-clio

Installation
SKILL.md

Columbia CLIO Catalog Skill

Search Columbia University Libraries' catalog of books, journals, manuscripts, and more.

Critical: Things Claude Won't Know Without This Skill

CLIO has an undocumented but fully functional JSON API

CLIO runs on Blacklight (Solr-based). Append .json to catalog URLs for JSON responses. No API key required.

Search:  https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog.json?q=hamlet&per_page=10
Record:  https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/{id}.json

Field-specific search uses search_field parameter

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