KBR’s digital collections
Discover digitised newspapers and periodicals, but also born-digital publications and e-resources.
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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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Contemporary Printed Books
The publications printed after 1830, a total of 5 million documents.
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Music
The musical heritage of KBR is almost entirely kept in the Music Department.
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Coins and Medals
KBR keeps more than 200.000 coins, medals and other numismatic objects.
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Chalcography
KBR keeps more than 9,000 ancient and modern engraved plates.
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Maps and Plans
Cartographical documents from the 16th century to the present day.
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American Studies
KBR has an extensive collection of paper and electronic sources related to American Studies.
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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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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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