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 <li><a href="#ownership">Who owns the Open Library catalog?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#share-records">I have a bunch of book records to share with Open Library. How do I do that?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#api">Does Open Library have an API?</a></li>
 <li><a href="#download">Can I download Open Library?</a></li>
 <li><a href="#small-library">Can I download a small piece of Open Library? Say, just three records?</a></li>
 <li><a href="#biblio-export">Can I export a bibliography?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#share-records">I have a bunch of book records to share with Open Library. How do I do that?</a></li>
 <li><a href="#csv-upload">I'm a publisher. I have a CSV file of all our publications. Can I share that on Open Library?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#biz-dev">I work on a book-related website and would like to talk with someone about sharing information with Open Library. Who should I talk to?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#biz-dev">I work on a book-related website and would like to share information with Open Library. Who should I talk to?</a></li>
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-<li><a href="http://openlibrary.org/help/faq">More FAQ</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://openlibrary.org/help/faq">Back to main FAQ page</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3 class="Question" id="ownership">Who owns the Open Library catalog?</h3>
-You do! Our catalog was created by the generous donations of <a href="http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/data">libraries who dedicated their data into the public domain.</a> Our data are available for <a href="http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/jsondump">bulk download</a> in original form through the Internet Archive.
+You do! Our catalog was created by the generous donations of <a href="https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/data">libraries who dedicated their data into the public domain</a>. Our data are available for <a href="https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/jsondump">bulk download</a> in original form through the Internet Archive.
 We ask that any and all contributions you make to Open Library be given under the following Creative Commons license: [CC0 1.0 Universal license][1].
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+<h3 class="Question" id="api">Does Open Library have an API?</h3>
-<h3 class="Question" id="share-records">I have a bunch of book records to share with Open Library. How do I do that?</h3>
+Yes. Please see [the API subsection][2] of our Developers section for more information and examples.
-Please see the instructions on <a href="http://upstream.openlibrary.org/data">Bulk Uploading</a>.
-We acknowledge that this process is too clunky at the moment, but it's a start and something we're looking to improve upon. The goal is eventually enable a library of any size, whether personal or institutional, to upload its catalog or a part of its catalog to Open Library. We'd like to work on that this year and next.
-A quick trip to the <a href="http://upstream.openlibrary.org/developers">Developers</a> section of the site will reveal that you can: a) install your own instance of Open Library, b) access Open Library data via a variety of APIs, or download the entire catalog.
+A quick trip to the <a href="https://openlibrary.org/developers">Developers</a> section of the site will reveal that you can: a) install your own instance of Open Library, b) access Open Library data via a variety of APIs, or download the entire catalog.
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 <h3 class="Question" id="small-library">Can I download a small piece of Open Library? Say, just three records?</h3>
-At the moment, no. But this is something we think would be very useful for libraries into the future. The utility of downloading our entire catalog (over 20 million records) is not practical for many libraries.
+The best way to download small sets of records is to make a <a href="https://openlibrary.org/lists">List</a> on Open Library, and then export it. You'll see the export options available on the List's main page.
-We plan to explore partnerships or integrations with other open source [Integrated Library Systems][2] (ILS) into 2010, with a view to providing easy access to small sets of free catalog records within in existing tools. It seems that it might be useful for a librarian to collect records around a particular topic using Open Library, and then use their existing ILS to access Open Library source records. That's the plan, anyway.
+We plan to explore partnerships or integrations with other open source [Integrated Library Systems][3] (ILS), with a view to providing easy access to small sets of free catalog records within in existing tools. It seems that it might be useful for a librarian to collect records around a particular topic using Open Library, and then use their existing ILS to access Open Library source records.
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 <h3 class="Question" id="biblio-export">Can I export a bibliography?</h3>
-Not yet. But, wouldn't that be awesome? There's currently no facility on Open Library to collect an arbitrary set of records around you, but a list like that might be something you could transform into a bibliography, perhaps with the support of a system such as [Zotero][3].
+Yes. Any <a href="https://openlibrary.org/lists">List</a> you create on Open Library can be exported in either HTML, JSON or BibTex.
+<a href="#top">Top</a>
+<h3 class="Question" id="share-records">I have a bunch of book records to share with Open Library. How do I do that?</h3>
+Please see the instructions on <a href="https://openlibrary.org/data">Bulk Uploading</a>.
+This process is clunky at the moment, but it's a start and something we're looking to improve upon. The goal is eventually enable a library of any size, whether personal or institutional, to upload its catalog or a part of its catalog to Open Library.
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 <h3 class="Question" id="csv-upload">I'm a publisher. I have a CSV file of all our publications. May I share that on Open Library?</h3>
-We would ***love*** that. It's not possible yet, though. We're working on ways to make the addition of records to Open Library much, much easier. For us to be able to accept a CSV file from anywhere, we'll need to be sure that it contains the minimum fields we require to: a) check to make sure we wouldn't create a duplicate record; or b) create a new record. Stay tuned!
+We would ***love*** that. It's not possible yet, though. We're working on ways to make the addition of records to Open Library much, much easier. For us to be able to accept a CSV file from anywhere, we'll need to be sure that it contains the minimum fields we require to: a) check to make sure we wouldn't create a duplicate record; or b) create a new record.
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-<h3 class="Question" id="biz-dev">I work on a book-related website and would like to talk with someone about sharing information with Open Library. Who should I talk to?</h3>
+<h3 class="Question" id="biz-dev">I work on a book-related website and would like share information with Open Library. Who should I talk to?</h3>
-Yay! Please email info@ and tell us about your website or organization and what you'd like to do.
+Yay! Please email info@archive.org and tell us about your website or organization and what you'd like to do.
-  [1]: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
+  [1]: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
-  [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_library_system
+  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/developers/api
-  [3]: http://www.zotero.org/
+  [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_library_system