BnL
Name :
· Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg
· Nationalbibliothéik Lëtzebuerg
· Nationalbibliothek Luxemburg
in English: National
Library of Luxembourg
Location/Address :
37D, Avenue John F. Kennedy
L-1855 Luxembourg
Tel. : (+352) 26 55 9-100
E-mail : info@bnl.etat.lu
Web site :
Discovery
agent
Contact :
The Luxembourg
bibnet.lu library network: bibnet@bnl.etat.lu
Short description of the institution:
The origins of the National Library of Luxembourg go back to 1798, when
the French Republic administration created a public school with a central
library entrusted with gathering the heritage collections from the libraries of
the Ancien Régime which were closed after the
invasion by French Revolutionary troops in 1794/1795. Those collections were
subsequently called National Library from 1899 onwards. In 1958 the first law
about a legal deposit was enacted.
A library with
an encyclopedic scope from its beginnings, the National Library is today the
main scientific and research library in the Grand Duchy holding 1’7 analog
documents. It also coordinates library activities on a national level such as
the union catalogue, the electronic resources consortium and the web harvesting
initiative as well as the registration of international identifiers such as
ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, ISNI.
In 2018, the
library will move to a brand new building designed by Bolles &Wilson in the business district of the city of
Luxembourg.
Short description of authority data:
The National Library of Luxembourg provides its personal names and
corporate names authority records and linked MARC-formatted bibliographic
records to VIAF