The Kulturarw Project — The Swedish Royal Web Archive

Abstract

KB (Kungliga biblioteket, The Royal Library), The National Library of Sweden, was founded in the 1500s. Since 1661, when the first Legal Deposit Law was introduced, it has functioned as the kingdom's national memory. Today KB receives everything printed that is distributed to the public in the form of books, journals, posters, maps, advertisements, catalogues and so on. Since 1994, following the latest version of the Legal Deposit Law, KB has also stored electronic publications ‘in fixed form’, i.e. published on CD‐ROM, tape or diskette. The total growth at KB is about 1.5 shelf‐kilometres per year. At that rate, KB's underground storage will be completely full by the year 2050.

Citation

Arvidson, A. and Lettenström, F. (1998), "The Kulturarw Project — The Swedish Royal Web Archive", The Electronic Library, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 105-108. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045623