This month the KB, National Library of the Netherlands, published its new strategy for the formation of the National Library collection. Read here what this involves. 

Today, a Stolperstein was placed in front op the KB to commemorate Lion Kunstenaar, a victim of the Nazis during World War 2.

Last year, the KB reached 1 in 3 of the Dutch population with its digital services. Read more about our annual report.

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.