Information about membership discount.

Are you a journalist looking for an expert on old books, libraries or science? Would you like to film or photograph in the KB? Or do you want to do research in the KB for your article in the press? Our press officer will be happy to assist you.

Registration Agency NBN is a service of the KB. It ensures that (scientific) institutions can use sustainable links. What does that entail?

You can order high-quality digital reproductions of material from our collections, for example a title page or newspaper article.

As a member of the KB or a non-profit organisation, you can borrow books from other Dutch or foreign libraries via the KB. We call this Inter Library Loans (ILL). This page explains how ILL works and how much it costs.

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. 

Delpher ANP radio bulletins digital is a source of daily news in the form that radio news used to be presented many years ago. The KB provides these bulletins as a dataset.

Learn more about our policy plan, our annual reports and our most important results and key figures.

The KB is researching the best way to move the entire collection from the current building to a new external repository. Read more about this investigation.