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.

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.

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.

The KB is building a new book repository. This promises to be a hypermodern building where our collection will be safe for the next centuries. Some highlights.