National Library of Sweden

The National Library of Sweden (Swedish: Kungliga biblioteket, KB, meaning "the Royal Library") is the national library of Sweden. As such 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.

Collections

The collections of the National Library consist of more than 18 million objects, including books, posters, pictures, manuscripts, newspapers and much more. The audio-visual collection consists of more than 7 million hours of recorded material.

The National Library is also a humanities research library, with collections of foreign literature in a wide range of subjects including archeology, history, literature studies, and art history. The library holds a collection of 850 broadsides of Sweden dating from 1852.

The National Library also purchases literature about Sweden written in foreign languages and works by Swedes published abroad, a category known as suecana. The National Library has been collecting floppy disks, CR-ROMs, and other electronic storage media since the mid-1990s, along with e-books, e-journals, websites, and other digital material.