Royal Library of the Netherlands
| KB National Library of the Netherlands | |
|---|---|
| Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) | |
The KB as seen from the Prins Bernhardviaduct | |
| 52°4′50.37″N 4°19′36.35″E / 52.0806583°N 4.3267639°E | |
| Location | The Hague |
| Type | National Library |
| Established | 1798 |
| Collection | |
| Size | 7 million printed items: over 115 km (71 mi) of books, newspapers, journals, and microforms |
| Access and use | |
| Members | 16,975 |
| Other information | |
| Budget | €128 million (2023) |
| Director | Wilma van Wezenbeek |
| Employees | 481 FTE (2023) |
| Website | www |
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The KB National Library of the Netherlands (legal Dutch name: Koninklijke Bibliotheek [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə ˌbiblijoːˈteːk] or KB [kaːˈbeː]; Royal Library) is the national library of the Netherlands, based in The Hague, founded in 1798.
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. 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.