National Library of Sweden
| National Library of Sweden | |
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| Kungliga biblioteket | |
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| 59°20′17″N 018°04′20″E / 59.33806°N 18.07222°E | |
| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Established | 1661 |
| Architect | Gustaf Dahl  |
Reference to legal mandate | The Government Approval Document for The Swedish National Library (available in Swedish) |
| Collection | |
Items collected | books, journals, newspapers, magazines, films, recorded sound, television, radio, manuscripts, maps, pictures, printed music, ephemera and digital resources |
| Size | c. 18 million items, 175 shelf kilometres, and 15.7 million hours of audiovisual material |
Criteria for collection | Suecana: publications published, broadcast or recorded in Sweden or by Swedish originator or concerning Sweden |
| Yes, and agreements with publishers | |
| Access and use | |
Access requirements | Free. Registration for loans: be Swedish resident or citizen over 18. (Audiovisual may only be accessed for research purposes) |
| Circulation | 135,187 (2009) |
| Other information | |
| Budget | 394,000,000SEK (2017) |
| Director | Karin Grönvall (since 2019) |
| Employees | 340 |
| Website | www.kb.se |
The National Library of Sweden (Swedish: Kungliga biblioteket, KB, meaning "the Royal Library") is Sweden's national library. It collects and preserves all domestic printed and audio-visual materials in Swedish, as well as content with Swedish association published abroad. Being a research library, it also has major collections of literature in other languages.