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ELIB - Armenian Digital Library MCP Server

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ELIB - Armenian Digital Library is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Search and cite books, authors and subjects of elib.am, the free Armenian digital library.

Uptime history 4 days of history · worst day 99%
4 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
350 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

ELIB - Armenian Digital Library missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add library --transport http https://elib.am/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://elib.am/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.library]
url = "https://elib.am/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "library": {
      "url": "https://elib.am/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "library": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://elib.am/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

books
list_books
Browse published books by subject, author or language, newest, most read or by title. Use list_subjects for subject ids and search_authors for author ids.
search_books
Search the whole library: titles, authors and descriptions (Latin transliteration works too), then the books' full text. Returns up to 20 books a page, best match first, each with the passage that matched.
author
get_author
One author's biography, life dates, page address and books.
authors
search_authors
Find authors by name (Armenian, Russian or Latin spelling). Without a query, lists the authors with the most books.
book
get_book
One book's details: title, author, subject, language, description, a passage of its text, its page address and related books.
libraries
list_libraries
The directory of libraries in Armenia that ELIB lists: name, city, address, phone, website, opening hours and map position.
subjects
list_subjects
Every subject that has books, with its id and how many books it holds, largest first.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://elib.am/mcp streamable-http answering 353 ms 3 min ago

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ELIB - Armenian Digital Library — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ELIB - Armenian Digital Library do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_author, get_book, list_books, list_libraries, list_subjects, search_authors and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is ELIB - Armenian Digital Library working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 350 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect ELIB - Armenian Digital Library?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does ELIB - Armenian Digital Library need an API key?
No. ELIB - Armenian Digital Library completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is ELIB - Armenian Digital Library?
It answers our handshake in 350 ms on average, which is faster than 40% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.