National Library of Sweden

National Library of Sweden
National Library of Sweden
Kungliga biblioteket
	59°20′17″N 018°04′20″E / 59.33806°N 18.07222°E
Location	Stockholm, Sweden
Established	1661
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
Legal deposit	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.

^ "Annual Report 2017 to CENL and CDNL" (PDF). The Conference of European National Librarians. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
^ "Annual Report 2017 to CENL and CDNL" (PDF). The Conference of European National Librarians. Retrieved 28 October 2022.

[1] "Annual Report 2017 to CENL and CDNL" (PDF). The Conference of European National Librarians. Retrieved 28 October 2022.

[2] "Annual Report 2017 to CENL and CDNL" (PDF). The Conference of European National Librarians. Retrieved 28 October 2022.

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