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The National Library collection never stops growing. That’s why a new repository is needed; to ensure the secure and energy-neutral storage of the collection for the long-term.

In this privacy statement you may read how we at the National Library of the Netherlands (“KB”) deal with your personal data in relation to your membership of the KB, the use of our services and facilities and your visits to our reading rooms.

Together with our fellow libraries, scientific researchers, network partners and social partners, the KB is involved in various relevant initiatives.

If you’re starting a career in the sciences and want to use our digital collection for research, why not become a researcher-in-residence at the KB? You can use our databases and collaborate with our Digital Humanities team.

The KB collects and stores every book, newspaper and magazine that has appeared in the Netherlands. We also digitise these items. We are happy to show you around and let you know where you can find things.

As a publisher in the Netherlands, you can turn to the KB for the long-term storage of your publications.

What will you find in our Delpher newspapers dataset? And how do you use the dataset? Delpher newspapers features 2 million digitised newspapers, dating from 1618 until 1995. Some of the files can be freely accessed and downloaded.

Delpher magazines is a dataset from the KB. This dataset contains almost half a milion digitised magazines from the 19th and 20th century. 

Which novels were popular in the past? How were male and female characters portrayed? Can you measure literature? The DBNL dataset has over 5 million digitised pages of Dutch language and literature.