The National Library at a glance; Useful information about this premier source of information concerning Norway, Norwegians and Norwegian culture.
Unique collections of manuscripts, special collections of books, music, radio and TV programmes, film , theatre, maps, posters, pictures, photographs and newspapers.
Presenting interesting material from the National Library collection has high priority. We are a multimedia centre of knowledge, and tell our digital stories, based on treasures in our collection, on the world wide web. Most of our web projects are only in Norwegian. Still, a visit to Opplevelser is recommended.
The National Library has two locations, Oslo and Mo i Rana. Feel free to contact us; - here are the necessary addresses, telephone and fax numbers:
Oslo: Henrik Ibsens gate 110, NO-0255 Oslo / Rana: Finsetveien 2, NO-8624 Mo i Rana
Postal address:
P.o. Box 2674 Solli
NO-0203 Oslo
Telephone +47 810 01 300 / Fax number +47 75 12 12 22
E-mail
Ask the National Library
Visitors to the National Library in Oslo, Henrik Ibsens gate 110:
Telephone +47 810 01 300 / +47 23 27 60 12
Fax number +47 75 12 12 22 / +47 23 27 60 50
The strategic ambitions of the National Library, primarily regarding professional development and digitization of the whole collection, demand continuous development over several years. The main focus in 2007 was the development of the digital national library with emphasis on the establishment of processes of digitization and adaptation for digital mediation through the digital National Library, NBdigital. The digitized books that are out of copyright are freely available through NBdigital at www.nb.no . They can be searched for both via metadata and a full text search.
The year 2004 has been spent laying the foundations for the development of a multimedia national library on the threshold of the 21st century, aiming to meet the demands of an ever more demanding public.
EDLproject (European Digital Library project) is a Targeted Project funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme, within the area of Cultural and scientific/scholarly content.
EDLproject is a direct response to the request of Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, made at the CENL (Conference of European National Librarians) conference in Luxembourg in September 2005 that national libraries should use their influence in the debate on the digitisation of European resources for access through the web.
The project management and coordination is assured by the German National Library and Eremo Srl.
