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.

Provisional figures from the Dutch online Library show that in 2022, library members borrowed considerably more audio books than in the previous year. The figures seem to show that young members also enjoy audio books: 35% of the audio books borrowed in 2022 were youth titles. 

Bibliotheeknetwerk.nl has published a new tool that provides an overview of all non-Dutch language books that libraries in The Netherlands have on offer. The dashboard shows which titles are available in which form (physical books, e-books, audiobooks) and in which location. 

The KB has updated its Research Agenda. Read here about the topics the KB will be researching over the next 4 years. 

Twenty years ago today, the KB National Library of the Netherlands launched its e-Depot. The creation of this digital archive was big news in 2002. The KB was the first organisation in the Netherlands to start preserving material that was originally published in digital form. Today, the e-Depot contains more than 40 million publications.

The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) has launched a new web collection: Religion and Philosophy of Life. In it you will find 580 websites about religion, spirituality and philosophy of life, or how people view life. It is the largest Dutch web collection on this subject.

Public libraries in the Netherlands will receive millions of euros in additional funding in the coming years. Significant investments are also being made in the Dutch online Library.

The KB National Library of the Netherlands’ collection of websites hosted by the former internet provider XS4ALL has become part of the Dutch UNESCO committee’s national Memory of the World register for documentary heritage, launched in 2022. 

More library members borrowed e-books and audiobooks in 2021. This means that the national digital public library was used well in the Netherlands last year. 84% of online library accounts borrowed at least one e-book or audio book. This is one of the conclusions of research carried out by the KB.

What was written in 17th century newspapers? We now know thanks to a collaboration between the KB and the Dutch Language Institute.