Catalogue with descriptions of early-modern alba amicorum (book of friends) in private and public Dutch collections. You can search by title, description or annotation. The information about the title shows where the physical copy is located.

Access to over 1,500 plays by more than 500 American authors from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. The works range from melodramas to farces and from comedies to adaptations of Shakespeare. You can search through the work of David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller, among others.

Browse the most important art and architectural magazines of the 20th century. Find articles on visual and applied arts, interior and industrial design and landscape architecture. With high-quality images and fully searchable text. Includes a lot of information about the life and work of artists and architects, and about art movements and social trends. For art historians, sociologists and historians.

Database with information about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands. Includes an electronic handbook, an image bank, a reference tool, secondary literature and a bibliography. Integrated search in various digital information sources. Also find comprehensive information about the sources in the help screens. For the book scholar.

German-English glossary with approximately 90,000 professional terms and abbreviations from book studies, library and information science. You can search in English and German. Also includes a list of dictionaries used for the composition. A tool for librarians and other users.

International bibliography in the field of book and library history. Search a comprehensive overview of all scholarly publications on the history of the printed book. Includes monographs, articles and reviews about the craft, economy, production, distribution and preservation of books. For the book scholar.

An extensive bibliography of book sales catalogues printed in the Dutch Republic prior to 1801. With descriptions of some 4,000 digital facsimiles from around 50 libraries across Europe, including major collections in the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, France and Russia. For researchers of the history of books and libraries.

Online catalogue with descriptions of all newspapers in the KB collection. Find information about articles in national and international newspapers, news magazines and daily local newspapers published from 1640 to the present day. From the Algemeen Dagblad to the Zwolse Courant. For researchers.

Bibliography with detailed descriptions of more than 12,000 Dutch plays, manuscripts and editions up to 1803. The full text of a number of plays is available online. For those who are interested in or researching the Dutch theatre of the past.

Online catalogue of 17 Dutch and Flemish institutions (including the KB) with more than 300,000 descriptions of mainly Dutch-language children's books, magazines and catchpenny prints from the 16th century to the present day. Also contains approximately 70,000 descriptions of articles and books that reflect on children’s literature. For the researcher of children's books.