Jeffrey van der Hoeven is department manager at the KB and an expert in the field of digital sustainability.

Archiving materials is one of the core tasks of the KB. We don’t just want to do our work as well as we can, we also want to document everything properly. Especially when it comes to our digital repository.

Foekje Boersma is Head of the Collection Preservation Department. She specialises in sustainable collection management: taking care of the printed collections, while keeping a careful eye on energy and resources.

How do we ensure that we can continue to use our digital collections in the future? This is what Digital Preservation Officer Daniel Steinmeier is working on.

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.

The e-Depot of the KB, the national library of the Netherlands, has been awarded the CoreTrustSeal for Trustworthy Data Repositories. 

Which metadata do we need to keep the KB digital collection sustainably accessible? That is what Inge Hofsink is working on.

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.