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

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.

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

How do we ensure that digital material remains accessible, now and in the future? That is what metadata specialist digital preservation Susanne van den Eijkel is working on every day.

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

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, National Library of the Netherlands, is set to build an innovative, new book repository in which the National Library will store the Netherlands’ written heritage safely and sustainably for the foreseeable future.

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.

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