The KBR bookshelves hold more than 8 million documents, divided over 17 floors. Every day, about 200 publications by Belgian authors are added to the collection, mainly through legal deposit. In addition to its physical collections, KBR also preserves digital collections.
American Studies
KBR has an extensive collection of paper and electronic sources related to American Studies.
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Belgian Bibliography
The Belgian Bibliography is a record of all periodical and non-periodical publications (monographs, journals, brochures, off-line electronic documents, etc.) sent to KBR through legal deposit.
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Chalcography
KBR keeps more than 9,000 ancient and modern engraved plates.
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Coins and Medals
KBR keeps more than 200.000 coins, medals and other numismatic objects.
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Contemporary Printed Books
The publications printed after 1830, a total of 5 million documents.
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KBR’s digital collections
Discover digitised newspapers and periodicals, but also born-digital publications and e-resources.
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Manuscripts and Rare books
KBR keeps approximately 35,000 manuscripts, including 4,500 medieval codices. The collection also include 300,000 old books dating from before 1830, incunabula and contemporary, bibliophile and precious editions.
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Maps and Plans
Cartographical documents from the 16th century to the present day.
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Music
The musical heritage of KBR is almost entirely kept in the Music Department.
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Newspapers
KBR’s collection of newspapers is by far the largest in Belgium.
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Prints and drawings
KBR’s graphic collection contains more than one million prints and drawings.
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Access to the collection
KBR safeguards an important and extensive literary, artistic and scientific heritage. We provide access to this […]
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Conservation and restoration
For centuries, we have been preserving traces of the past. Our history is that of a […]
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Digitisation
For some ten years now, KBR has been digitising its collections, not only for preventive conservation […]
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Research
As a scientific institution research is part of KBR’s core purpose.
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