Gifts and donations
The library regularly receives donations of archive material and book gifts. If you have material that you believe would be of interest to us, please always contact us before sending or delivering it.
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Criteria for receiving gifts and donations
- As a general rule, we only receive Danish publications if we do not already have them.
- We only receive records, photographs, maps, manuscripts, letters and the like if we believe they have national, cultural and historical significance.
- We do not accept foreign material unless it has professional utility value.
We only accept material that meets the above criteria and if we are granted ownership.
Read more about our policy in this area.
Please also note that we already receive the entire Danish production of printed publications in accordance with the Danish Legal Deposit Act.
Read more about how we collect material covered by the Danish Legal Deposit Act.
If you have knowledge of material that belongs to the library, you are of course also welcome to contact us.
Conditions for receipt
If a donation does not become part of the collection, we reserve the right to use it in another way, for example, passing it on to another institution.
We always reserve the right to discard received material.
- We do not accept deposits/lodgement.
- We do not accept special requirements for registration.
- As a general rule, we do not provide receipts for donations that we receive without an agreement.