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A design library is a collection of reusable experience templates, components, design tokens, content types, data assemblies (binding configurations) and editor interfaces that can be shared across spaces and environments.

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## How items are included

When creating a design library, supply a source environment and a taxonomy concept ID in `basedOn`. The concept identifies which items to include when creating a version.

### Items selected by taxonomy

The version includes components, design tokens and experience templates assigned that concept in the source environment.

### Associated items

The version also includes:

* Data assemblies used by those components and experience templates, including data assemblies used within other data assemblies.
* Content types used by those data assemblies, together with their editor interfaces, when `includeLinkedContentTypes` is set to `true`.

These associated items do not need the taxonomy concept assigned to them.

Creating a design library saves these selection settings. Items are copied when you create a version.

## Design library

[List design libraries](/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/list-design-libraries)

[Create a design library](/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/create-design-library)

[Get a design library](/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/get-design-library)

[Update a design library](/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/update-design-library)

[Delete a design library](/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/delete-design-library)

## Versions

A version is an immutable snapshot of a design library's items.

[Versions](/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/versions)

## Installations

An installation tracks the application of a design library version to a target environment.

[Installations](/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/installations)

## Limits

| Limit                          | Maximum                                                                    |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Items per version              | 1,000 unique fetched items across all item types.                          |
| Library or version name        | 256 characters.                                                            |
| Library or version description | 1,000 characters.                                                          |
| Versions being created         | One per library with status `created` or `in_progress`.                    |
| Concurrent installations       | 100 per target organisation across all spaces, environments and libraries. |
| Results per list page          | 100 items.                                                                 |

The version item limit includes derived content types and data assemblies.

The concurrent installation limit counts installations with status `created` or `in_progress`. Capacity becomes available when an installation succeeds or fails. See [Concurrent installation limit](/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/installations#concurrent-installation-limit) for how to handle capacity errors.

## Pagination

List operations use [cursor pagination](/references/content-management-api/overview#cursor-pagination).


## API Docs

- Design libraries [List design libraries](https://contentful.com/developers/docs/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/list-design-libraries.md)
- Design libraries [Create a design library](https://contentful.com/developers/docs/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/create-design-library.md)
- Design libraries [Get a design library](https://contentful.com/developers/docs/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/get-design-library.md)
- Design libraries [Update a design library](https://contentful.com/developers/docs/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/update-design-library.md)
- Design libraries [Delete a design library](https://contentful.com/developers/docs/references/experience-management-api/design-libraries/delete-design-library.md)

## OpenAPI Specification

The raw OpenAPI 3.1 specification for this API is available at:
- [OpenAPI JSON](https://contentful.com/developers/docs/openapi.json)
- [OpenAPI YAML](https://contentful.com/developers/docs/openapi.yaml)