Recently, the KB_Datalab was opened. In this space, researchers can utilise collections which are not accessible outside the KB.

Lily Knibbeler is set to step down as Director General of the KB as of 1 July 2024. She announced this news today.

On January 21st 2014, you could borrow e-books via the Dutch library for the first time. These days, you can also borrow audio books and magazines.

The KB is taking precautions to prevent the crawling of digital sources for training generative AI. Read what this means here.

The Connected Digital Heritage programme line was recently launched. This programme line, run by Stichting Pica in association with the KB, makes it possible to connect digital heritage collections with each other

On Friday, December 8th, we release the new Design Drawings Damage Atlas . This book serves as a tool for conducting damage assessments on design drawings.

 The Venlo Incident podcast has launched on Wednesday 8 November 2023. In the podcast, history collection specialist Huibert Crijns and NTR director Paul Ruigrok discuss the incident and its far-reaching consequences.

Delpher celebrates its 10th anniversary on 20 November. Delpher is an online database of digitized books, newspapers, magazines and radio messages from the KB (National Library of the Netherlands) and other libraries, scientific organisations and heritage institutions.

Sophie Ham is the new curator of Digital Collections at the KB (National Library of the Netherlands) as of 1 October. She will focus on born digital publications, such as websites, blogs and social media. 

Libraries will receive 74 million euros to collaborate with even more schools and daycare centres. This was announced on 30 October by the outgoing Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Mariëlle Paul and outgoing State Secretary for Media and Culture Gunay Uslu.