In 2021, the KB, National Library of the Netherlands, reached six million users with its digital services. 

The National Library of the Netherlands was founded in 1798. The KB has since developed into an academic library, with a focus on humanities and social sciences.

The KB is set to build an innovative, new book repository in which the National Library will store the Netherlands’ printed and written heritage safely and sustainably 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.

Individual digital publications can be deposited via our web desk.

The KB houses the Dutch ISSN Centre. You can contact us to request an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) free of charge.

We prefer to receive publications digitally. If that is not possible, you can deposit physical publications by post.

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

Press Officer and Content Strategist Helen Johnson’s work focuses on sharing news about the KB, National Library of the Netherlands.

Web archiving is the preservation of websites for later. The KB preserves websites in the web collection – permanently and forever. Read more about this expertise.