Denmark

Det Kongelige Bibliotek / Royal Danish Library

How to find us

The Black Diamant

Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1

1221 Copenhagen K & Royal Danish Library Victor Al

 

Phone

+45 3347 4747

Email

sl@kb.dk

Director

Bente Skovgaard Kristensen

Architect

Hans Jørgen Holm

Year founded

1648

As a national library, Royal Danish Library collects, preserves and provides access to cultural heritage via texts, images and audio, in both physical and digital form.

© Atle Clausen

As a university library, Royal Danish Library provides services that support research and education at three of the danish universities.

© Atle Clausen

As a loan centre for the Danish public libraries, Royal Danish Library provides service that supplements the public libraries’ service offerings to citizens.
As a research institution, Royal Danish Library increases knowledge and awareness of the Danish cultural heritage.

© Atle Clausen

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This Week: National Library of Denmark

When the directors of ten European national libraries met for the first time in 1987 to lay the foundations for what would become CENL, Denmark was right there at the table. Today, The Royal Danish Library continues that shared mission: preserving the past, collecting the present and enriching the future.

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