Royal Danish Library

Royal Danish Library (Danish: Det Kgl. Bibliotek) is a merger of the two previous national libraries in Denmark: the State and University Library in Aarhus and the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Although now under a single organisation, the separate locations in both cities are maintained.

Royal Danish Library
Det Kgl. Bibliotek
The Royal Library in Copenhagen
Location	Aarhus, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark
Type	National Library, University Library, National Center for Shared Services for Public Libraries
Established	1648
Collection
Size	42,504,062 physical units, 8,615,234 electronic titles (as of 2017)[1]
Legal deposit	Since 1697
Other information
Director	Svend Larsen
Employees	800+[2]
Website	www.kb.dk/en

The merger came into effect on January 1, 2017.^[3]