Royal Library of the Netherlands

KB National Library of the Netherlands
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB)
The KB as seen from the Prins Bernhardviaduct
Map
52°4′50.37″N 4°19′36.35″E / 52.0806583°N 4.3267639°E / 52.0806583; 4.3267639
LocationThe Hague
TypeNational Library
Established1798 (226 years ago) (1798)
Collection
Size7 million printed items: over 115 km (71 mi) of books, newspapers, journals, and microforms[1]
Access and use
Members16,975
Other information
Budget€53 million
DirectorLily Knibbeler
Employees412
Websitewww.kb.nl/en

The Royal Library of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninklijke Bibliotheek or KB; Royal Library) is the national library of the Netherlands, based in The Hague, founded in 1798.[2][3]

The KB collects everything that is published in and concerning the Netherlands, from medieval literature to today's publications. About 7 million publications are stored in the stockrooms, including books, newspapers, magazines and maps. The KB offers digital services, such as the national online Library (with e-books and audiobooks), Delpher (millions of digitized pages) and The Memory (about 800,000 images). Since 2015, the KB has played a coordinating role for the network of the public library.[4] The KB's collection of websites as hosted by the former Dutch internet provider XS4ALL is on the Unesco documentary world heritage memory of the world. It is the first web collection in the world that has been granted this status.[5]

  1. ^ "KB in a nutshell".
  2. ^ "Koninklijke Bibliotheek / Royal Library of the Netherlands". The Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  3. ^ "Dutch Royal Library | library, The Hague, Netherlands". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  4. ^ "The National Library of the Netherlands – Digital Preservation (Library of Congress)". digitalpreservation.gov. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  5. ^ "KB's special web collection of XS4ALL home pages on Dutch UNESCO Memory of the World heritage list | KB, National Library of the Netherlands". www.kb.nl.