National Library of Sweden
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The National Library of Sweden (Swedish: Kungliga biblioteket, KB, meaning "the Royal Library") is Sweden's national library. It collects and preserves all domestic printed and audio-visual materials in Swedish, as well as content with Swedish association published abroad. Being a research library, it also has major collections of literature in other languages.
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National Library of Sweden | |
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Kungliga biblioteket | |
59°20′17″N 018°04′20″E | |
Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Established | 1661 (363 years ago) (1661) |
Reference to legal mandate | The Government Approval Document for The Swedish National Library (available in Swedish) |
Collection | |
Items collected | books, journals, newspapers, magazines, films, recorded sound, television, radio, manuscripts, maps, pictures, printed music, ephemera and digital resources |
Size | c. 18 million items, 175 shelf kilometres, and 15.7 million hours of audiovisual material[1] |
Criteria for collection | Suecana: publications published, broadcast or recorded in Sweden or by Swedish originator or concerning Sweden |
Legal deposit | Yes, and agreements with publishers |
Access and use | |
Access requirements | Free. Registration for loans: be Swedish resident or citizen over 18. (Audiovisual may only be accessed for research purposes) |
Circulation | 135,187 (2009) |
Other information | |
Budget | 394,000,000SEK (2017)[2] |
Director | Karin Grönvall (since 2019) |
Employees | 340 |
Website | www.kb.se |
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