diff --git a/src/.env.example b/src/.env.example
index dbae05b..8f3e2af 100644
--- a/src/.env.example
+++ b/src/.env.example
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ DB_PASSWORD=
 BROADCAST_DRIVER=log
 CACHE_DRIVER=file
 FILESYSTEM_DISK=local
-QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync
+QUEUE_CONNECTION=database
 SESSION_DRIVER=file
 SESSION_LIFETIME=120
 
diff --git a/src/app/Enums/Imports/ImportSources.php b/src/app/Enums/Imports/ImportSources.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8a38e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/Enums/Imports/ImportSources.php
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Enums\Imports;
+
+enum ImportSources: string
+{
+    case OPEN_LIBRARY = 'openlibrary';
+}
diff --git a/src/app/Http/Controllers/IndexController.php b/src/app/Http/Controllers/IndexController.php
index ae5532f..45b35cd 100644
--- a/src/app/Http/Controllers/IndexController.php
+++ b/src/app/Http/Controllers/IndexController.php
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@
 
 use Illuminate\Http\Request;
 use Inertia\Inertia;
+use App\Traits\Imports\OpenLibraryTrait;
 
 class IndexController extends Controller
 {
+    use OpenLibraryTrait;
     public function index() {
+        $this->importOpenLibrary();
         return Inertia::render('index');
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/app/Jobs/ImportFromApiJob.php b/src/app/Jobs/ImportFromApiJob.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4efddf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/Jobs/ImportFromApiJob.php
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Jobs;
+
+use App\Enums\Imports\ImportSources;
+use Exception;
+use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldBeUnique;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
+use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
+use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
+use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
+use App\Traits\Imports\OpenLibraryTrait;
+
+class ImportFromApiJob implements ShouldQueue
+{
+    use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
+    use OpenLibraryTrait;
+
+    /**
+     * Create a new job instance.
+     */
+    public function __construct(
+        private ImportSources $source = ImportSources::OPEN_LIBRARY,
+        private array $query = ['first_publish_year:[0 TO 2024]'],
+    )
+    {}
+
+    /**
+     * Execute the job.
+     * @throws Exception
+     */
+    public function handle(): void
+    {
+        // validate if query array is key only and not key-value pair
+        foreach ($this->query as $key => $value) {
+            if (is_string($key)) {
+                throw new Exception('Query array must not be key-value pair');
+            }
+        }
+
+        // replace with switch statement once more sources are added
+        if ($this->source == ImportSources::OPEN_LIBRARY) {
+            $this->importOpenLibrary($this->query);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/app/Traits/CommonLibraryTrait.php b/src/app/Traits/CommonLibraryTrait.php
index e87f4ec..92cd569 100644
--- a/src/app/Traits/CommonLibraryTrait.php
+++ b/src/app/Traits/CommonLibraryTrait.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace App\Traits;
 
+use App\Models\Item;
 use App\Models\LibraryPass;
 use Illuminate\Support\Env;
 
@@ -49,5 +50,26 @@ private function isLibraryPassBarCodeAlreadyInUse($barcode): bool
     {
         return LibraryPass::where('barcode', $barcode)->exists();
     }
+
+
+    public function generateValidItemIdentifier(): string
+    {
+        $identifier = $this->generateItemIdentifier();
+        while($this->isItemIdentifierAlreadyInUse($identifier)) {
+            $identifier = $this->generateItemIdentifier();
+        }
+        return $identifier;
+    }
+
+    private function generateItemIdentifier(): string
+    {
+        $prefix = "ITM";
+        return $prefix . $this->generateRandomNumber(16);
+    }
+
+    private function isItemIdentifierAlreadyInUse($identifier): bool
+    {
+        return Item::where('identifier', $identifier)->exists();
+    }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/app/Traits/Imports/OpenLibraryTrait.php b/src/app/Traits/Imports/OpenLibraryTrait.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8459755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/Traits/Imports/OpenLibraryTrait.php
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Traits\Imports;
+
+use App\Models\Item;
+use App\Models\User;
+use App\Traits\CommonLibraryTrait;
+
+trait OpenLibraryTrait
+{
+    use CommonLibraryTrait;
+    public function importOpenLibrary($tries = 3) {
+        if ($tries < 1) $tries = 3;
+
+        $maxOffset = (int) ceil(100 * $tries / 100) * 100;
+        $offset = 100;
+        $loop = (int) ceil($offset / 100);
+
+        for ($i = 0; $i < $loop; $i++) {
+            $this->import($offset);
+            if ($offset >= $maxOffset) {
+                break;
+            }
+            $offset += 100;
+        };
+    }
+
+    private function import($offset) {
+        $books = $this->getData($offset);
+
+        foreach ($books as $book) {
+            $this->importBook($book);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private function importBook($book) {
+        Item::create([
+            'identifier' => $this->generateValidItemIdentifier(),
+            'type' => 'book',
+            'name' => $book['title'],
+            'description' => "Dit boek is geschreven door {$book['author_name'][0]} en is uitgegeven in {$book['first_publish_year']}.",
+            'category' => 1,
+            'ISBN' => $book['isbn'][0],
+            'rating' => 1,
+            'borrowing_time' => 30,
+            'modified_kind' => 'I',
+            'modified_user' => User::where('email', 'superadmin@biblio.nl')->first()->id,
+        ]);
+    }
+
+    private function getData($offset)
+    {
+        $baseUrl = "https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=language%3Adut&sort=new&lang=nl&offset=" . $offset;
+        $curl = curl_init();
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $baseUrl);
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+        $response = curl_exec($curl);
+        curl_close($curl);
+
+        $response = json_decode($response, true);
+        return $response['docs'];
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/composer.json b/src/composer.json
index 00efa1d..e6412d3 100644
--- a/src/composer.json
+++ b/src/composer.json
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
         "laravel/framework": "^10.10",
         "laravel/sanctum": "^3.3",
         "laravel/tinker": "^2.8",
-        "spatie/laravel-permission": "^6.1"
+        "mxl/laravel-job": "^1.5",
+        "spatie/laravel-permission": "^6.1",
+        "ext-curl": "*"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "fakerphp/faker": "^1.9.1",
diff --git a/src/composer.lock b/src/composer.lock
index 32b7ec2..02ee2c4 100644
--- a/src/composer.lock
+++ b/src/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "36be957dfb2dce7ea88a43f3afa7aa37",
+    "content-hash": "c5094f626e3457f76f8e319d44869e29",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "brick/math",
@@ -1991,6 +1991,65 @@
             ],
             "time": "2023-10-27T15:32:31+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "mxl/laravel-job",
+            "version": "v1.5.0",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/mxl/laravel-job.git",
+                "reference": "fbead0adb6c420396473a08582cbc1959d981ae7"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/mxl/laravel-job/zipball/fbead0adb6c420396473a08582cbc1959d981ae7",
+                "reference": "fbead0adb6c420396473a08582cbc1959d981ae7",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "laravel/framework": "5.5.*|5.6.*|5.7.*|5.8.*|^6.0|^7.0|^8.0|^9.0|^10.0",
+                "php": ">=7.0"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.2"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "laravel": {
+                    "providers": [
+                        "MichaelLedin\\LaravelJob\\LaravelJobServiceProvider"
+                    ]
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "MichaelLedin\\LaravelJob\\": "src/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Michael Ledin",
+                    "email": "mledin89@gmail.com"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Laravel job tools",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/mxl/laravel-job",
+            "keywords": [
+                "command",
+                "dispatch",
+                "job",
+                "laravel",
+                "tools"
+            ],
+            "support": {
+                "issues": "https://github.com/mxl/laravel-job/issues",
+                "source": "https://github.com/mxl/laravel-job"
+            },
+            "time": "2023-09-27T08:19:29+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "nesbot/carbon",
             "version": "2.71.0",
diff --git a/src/database/migrations/2023_12_20_101128_create_jobs_table.php b/src/database/migrations/2023_12_20_101128_create_jobs_table.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6098d9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/database/migrations/2023_12_20_101128_create_jobs_table.php
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?php
+
+use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
+use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
+
+return new class extends Migration
+{
+    /**
+     * Run the migrations.
+     */
+    public function up(): void
+    {
+        Schema::create('jobs', function (Blueprint $table) {
+            $table->bigIncrements('id');
+            $table->string('queue')->index();
+            $table->longText('payload');
+            $table->unsignedTinyInteger('attempts');
+            $table->unsignedInteger('reserved_at')->nullable();
+            $table->unsignedInteger('available_at');
+            $table->unsignedInteger('created_at');
+        });
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reverse the migrations.
+     */
+    public function down(): void
+    {
+        Schema::dropIfExists('jobs');
+    }
+};
diff --git a/src/database/migrations/2023_12_21_105625_add_author_to_items.php b/src/database/migrations/2023_12_21_105625_add_author_to_items.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b63a54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/database/migrations/2023_12_21_105625_add_author_to_items.php
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?php
+
+use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
+use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
+
+return new class extends Migration
+{
+    /**
+     * Run the migrations.
+     */
+    public function up(): void
+    {
+        Schema::table('items', function (Blueprint $table) {
+            $table->string('author')->nullable()->after('name');
+            $table->string('publisher')->nullable()->after('author');
+        });
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reverse the migrations.
+     */
+    public function down(): void
+    {
+        Schema::table('items', function (Blueprint $table) {
+            //
+        });
+    }
+};