Visitors & members
Are you a KB member? Or are you planning a visit to the KB? Find all the information you need about visiting and memberships here.
The National Library celebrates 225 years!
This year is the National Library’s 225th anniversary! We have planned various ways to mark the anniversary during these 225 days. Discover our plans.
Annual report KB: National Library’s online services continuously popular in 2022
In 2022, the websites of the Online Library, the Youth Library and Bibliotheek.nl attracted almost 6.5 million visits. Read more in the annual report 2022 of the KB National Library of the Netherlands.
Portico and KB extend their collaboration to support preservation of the scholarly record
Portico and the KB, National Library of the Netherlands, are pleased to announce that they have extended their longstanding collaboration to host an online replica of the Portico archive at the KB. Read more about this collaboration.
Rates
Check here what our rates are for copying and printing in the KB, ordering reproductions, requests from the KB and other libraries and international lending.
Ukraine web collection captures the online impact of the war
The IIPC (International Internet Preservation Coalition) has started collecting international websites that report on the conflict in Ukraine. Discover this collection.
Video series: Journey of a Medieval Manuscript
For the KB's 225th anniversary, we launched a video series which highlights the steps a medieval book goes through when it enters our collection.