Denmark 

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 Formal Name:             Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library)
 Name of Librarian:     Erland Kolding Nielsen
 Address:                     Postboks 2149, 1016 Kobenhavn K
 Phone:     33930111    Fax:    33932218
 E-mail:     kb@kb.dk

History & Collections

 The  Royal  Library  in Copenhagen (1665), originally the king's personal library,  but open to the public since 1793.  is the
national library and the largest in Denmark. A legal deposit library since 1697, it has the most complete Danish collections in existence, including translations of Danish works into other languages and foreign books dealing with Denmark, as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, and musical scores. It also serves as the national book museum.

The Royal Library is the main library of the University of Copenhagen for theology, the social sciences, and the humanities, where it holds the most extensive collections in Denmark. It also has several special collections, notably Judaica (one of the world's finest) and Oriental Books and Manuscripts.

The National Archives consist of the Central Record Office in Copenhagen and four provincial archives, with holdings that occupied 201.000 running meters in 1988. Total staff numbered 149 (about a third of them professionals), and annual expenditures totaled almost 45,720,000 Danish kroner.

Sources:

World guide to libraries. New York: Saur, 1998.
World encyclopedia of library and information services. 3rd ed. Chicago: American Library Association,c1993.