KBR.be:Royal Library of Belgium The Royal Library of Belgium is a scientific institution of the Belgian Confederation, dating back to the 15th century when the Duke of Burgundy built the Burgundy Library, whose collection consisted mainly of 900 manuscripts.

The Royal Library completed a retrospective bibliography from 1875- The Royal Library has completed a retrospective bibliography for the years 1875-1930, and since 1999 has published only the Belgian bibliography on CD-ROM, and the 1875-1998 bibliography is also available on CD-ROM. In addition, the library focuses on public relations, frequently organizing exhibitions, concerts, and publishing a biannual journal.

The Royal Library attaches great importance to the conservation of books, and has conducted a comprehensive study and evaluation of large-scale deacidification, miniaturization, and digitization of documents, and has decided to invest an appropriate amount of money each year to produce a replacement for the 19th century Belgian pamphlet. The staff of the reading room also decides whether to allow or not to allow the reproduction of materials registered by readers, depending on the condition of the materials and the time period.

The Royal Library has also partnered with the libraries of the University of Antwerp and Brussels University, among others, to implement a virtual library project. The aim is to build a virtual library infrastructure using electronic communications technology, with a major emphasis on clearly integrated bibliographic retrieval, electronic document requests and delivery, and a user interface using World Wide Web technology. The project will be developed and tested in three libraries and will be available in six other university libraries. The Royal Library also has a number of collaborations with other international institutions.

The Royal Library of Belgium is responsible for the collection and cataloguing of all Belgian publications, including books, periodicals, maps, architectural plans, engraved documents, coins, medals and printed music, and has the function of general custodian of the national cultural heritage, in accordance with the Law of 1594 on the submission of books. The manuscript collection is undoubtedly the most prestigious of all the valuable collections of the Royal Library of Belgium. The library received some 300 manuscripts from the Library of the Duke of Berghandy and also contains the Florentine script of King Matthias Kavan of Hungary. The collection of the Good Book Department consists of more than 45,000 books, of which 3,000 are antique books (books engraved before 1500 AD). The Department of engraved documents has 700,000 engraved documents and 10,000 ancient and modern paintings. There are 150,000 maps and architectural plans, mostly in bulk, and aerial photographs and official photographs in this department. The Badge Department has a collection of coins, scales, currency weights, chips and various souvenirs. The Sheet Music Department not only maintains the sheet music and musical compositions but also the music research literature of the former Duke of Berghandie and Belgium. The Royal Library of Belgium has a collection of 4,000,000 bound volumes, 21,100 titles, 300,000 manuscripts, 4,750 volumes of cradles, 5,000 degrees, and 5,000 pieces of music; 5,000 degrees; 305,000 government documents; 100,000 pages of music; 140,000 maps; 16,000 audio-visual materials; 6,000 recordings; 205,000 coins and medals; 35,000 volumes of rare books, etc.

The Royal Library of Belgium attaches great importance to the advancement of information technology and has spared no expense in acquiring digital equipment - computers, monitors, printers, digital cameras and other peripherals. SUN series products were chosen as servers. At the same time, to address the lack of information technology staff at all levels, we added a large number of highly professional staff to meet the needs of computer applications and service users. The new search uses the Library of Congress' triple approach: subject line, title line, and keyword.

Advancing the Z39.50 standard and extending it to be consistent with the BATH documents. The full-text journal database and the National Library background database (including LC records) are updated automatically and in a timely manner, and both are available online only at the Library. The Royal Library website has been redesigned for ease of expansion and updating to make it more dynamic. Belgian law requires the site to be bilingual - French and Dutch - and English and German versions will be available soon. A new CD-ROM network is planned to provide dedicated workstations for the visually impaired and to install servers for the use of digital documents.

The Royal Library of Belgium cooperates with private companies to scan 19th century pamphlets, most of them Belgian originals. These pamphlets were bound into volumes according to subject matter and were in critical condition. The scans were made available on CD-ROM for online use in the library. In 2000, the digitization of 270 manuscripts of the 15th century Duke of Burgundy was completed. The museum's digitization policy has a dual purpose: to make this collection of documents more widely available and to make alternatives to endangered documents available to users. The miniaturization of pre-World War I newspapers has now been completed.