National Library of Norway

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The National Library of Norway
Nasjonalbiblioteket
The building of Nasjonalbiblioteket in Oslo
59°54′50.61″N 10°43′2.85″E / 59.9140583°N 10.7174583°E / 59.9140583; 10.7174583
Location	Oslo and Mo i Rana, Norway
Established	1989 (35 years ago) (1989)
Reference to legal mandate	The Legal Deposit of generally available documents
Collection
Items collected	Unique collections of manuscripts, special collections of books, music, radio and TV programmes, film, theatre, maps, posters, pictures, photographs, electronic documents and newspapers.
Size	8,5 million items
Legal deposit	The Legal Deposit Act
Access and use
Access requirements	Reading rooms: free. Registration for lending: be Norwegian resident or citizen over 18
Circulation	153,228 (2007)
Other information
Director	Aslak Sira Myhre
Employees	420
Website	www.nb.no

The National Library of Norway (Norwegian: Nasjonalbiblioteket) was established in 1989. Its principal task is "to preserve the past for the future". The library is located both in Oslo and in Mo i Rana. The building in Oslo was restored and reopened in 2005.

Prior to the existence of the National Library, the University Library of Oslo was assigned the tasks that normally fall to a national library.

The Norwegian ISBN Agency, responsible for assigning ISBNs with prefix 82- and 978-82-, is part of the National Library of Norway. The National Library is also responsible for legal deposits made from publishers in Norway. All material is to be submitted free of charge.

Aslak Sira Myhre is national librarian from November 2014.^[1]