News from the Royal Library

The new Faculty Library of the Social Sciences opened May 4

Visit the new Social Sciences Library, Gothersgade 140, which is open every day of the week.

A New Mermaid makes a Splash at the Black Diamond

The Royal Library has placed a bronze copy of Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen's sculpture "Mermaid" on the harbour front. May 5, 2009

Publication of Carl Nielsen's works with commentary in 35 volumes

The Royal Library celebrates the completion of a thoroughly revised edition of Carl Nielsen's complete works. March 2009.

New Library opens at South Campus

Reserved lockers and desks

Students at the University of Copenhagen can apply for reserved lockers and desks.

KUBIS - a new, augmented cooperation

The University of Copenhagen and the Royal Library have agreed to cooperate on a new organisation of library services named KUBIS – Københavns Universitets Biblioteks- og Informations-service (Library and Information service for the University of Copenhagen). Dec. 21, 2007

The actress Betty Hennings as 'The Mother'

Three new volumes in the Carl Nielsen Edition

The incidental music is in focus with among other works Holger Drachmann's "Hr. Oluf he rides", Helge Rode's "The Mother" and Ludvig Holstein's "Tove" - with several well known songs.

Pictorial history - Copenhagen

Over 50,000 historical images of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg are now accessible online.

Christmas and New Year in the past

See the exhibition of Christmas and New Year cards (c. 1880 to 1920) from the Collection of Photographs and Prints (November to January) in the Octogon (in The Black Diamond).

Cod. Arab. XIX, fol. 2b-3a (excerpt): Dedication by Theodor Petræus

Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in Danish Collections (COMDC) now complete

The COMDC series, founded in 1966, aims to provide a complete set of catalogues of the Oriental collections, with concise descriptions of the physical appearance and contents of the documents.

IT Library opens Nov. 2

Games and Second Life: The IT Library opens officially at the IT-University in Ørestad on Friday, November 2, 2007.

Improvements on our web ...

Now you can log on from the menu bar. Read more about simplified display and access to e-resources in our catalogue, REX.

Try the test version

Make one search through all types of materials: books, pictures, databases, journals, music etc. In 2008 the new system will replace REX.

Guaman Poma's Inca-chronicle added to UNESCO's Memory of the World-list

In June 2007 UNESCO added Guaman Poma's Inca-chronicle - El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno - to the Memory of the World Programme.

New IT-Library

Copenhagen University Library, the IT-University of Copenhagen and the Department of Computer Science (University of Copenhagen) will open a new, common IT-library in the autumn of 2007. 14.5.2007

Topping off ceremony

On March 22, 2007 the Royal Library held the topping off ceremony at the new building for Copenhagen University Library South.

Crimes against our Cultural Heritage

Peter Watson, author of The Medici Conspiracy, lectures at the Royal Library on 8 March: 3 - 5 pm in the Queen's Hall (Dronningesalen).

There is free admission to Watson's public lecture.

New Helpdesk for problems with e-resources

Help available on the use of e-resources
27 january 2007

A New Web

The English version of the Royal Library's new web provides the most vital services from day one, but will first reach full strength in the course of the spring.

27 January 2007

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Jytte Kjærgaard Pedersen
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The Royal Library
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DK - 1016 Copenhagen K
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Email: jkp@kb.dk