Framework agreement

Our framework agreement with the Danish Ministry of Culture details the goals for our work and the framework for reaching these in the period 2020-2023.

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In January 2020, Det Kgl. Bibliotek and the Danish Ministry of Culture entered into a framework agreement for the period 2020-2023. The agreement defines goals for the library enterprise during the period of agreement, as well as terms of work.

The core tasks of Det Kgl. Bibliotek are:

  • Digital material management
  • Physical material management
  • Library service
  • Cultural information and research

The following performance goals have been agreed for our work:

Digital material management

  1. Det Kgl. Bibliotek will attend to the licence negotiations for universities in a binding dialogue with the university managements and under obligation to support the national strategy for Open Access
  2. Det Kgl. Bibliotek aims to ensure permanent access to the procured digital information resources
  3. Det Kgl. Bibliotek aims to make it easier for users to find digital cultural heritage material

Physical material management

  1. Det Kgl. Bibliotek aims to support operations optimisation of the research libraries’ physical collections
  2. Det Kgl. Bibliotek aims to make in-house physical collections more accessible to citizens across the country

Library service

  1. Det Kgl. Bibliotek aims to increase public use of the library’s nationwide services
  2. Det Kgl. Bibliotek aims to boost students’ digital development

Cultural information and research

  1. Det Kgl. Bibliotek aims to boost efforts regarding teaching and recreational activities for children and adolescents
  2. Det Kgl. Bibliotek aims to maintain the scale of the library’s research and to increase the outside world’s knowledge of it