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New borrower

It’s easy to become a borrower at the Danish National Art Library. Here you can read how to register and what opportunities you have as a borrower

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The library lounge

This is how

If you are a new borrower you can register electronically on this web formula click here. Then you can request material from the Library catalogue after which you can borrow material to read outside the library.
When collecting material to take away, always remember your social security card, which functions as a library ticket.

Borrowing entitlements

As a borrower you can borrow to take away all the material which is marked with the label "Circulating" in the Library’s (data) base.There are some materials which can only be used at the Library: these are marked “Reading room loan", and should be requested the same way as the lending material.
Materials which are marked, “Study room material",(for use in the study room) are either too large or too fragile for use in the reading room. These materials can only be consulted in our study room in Søborg. You must remember to book a time to look at them, using this form click here

You can, to a certain extent, copy or scan our materials, or you can, for your own use, bring photographic equipment with you to take pictures. Read more about the rules applicable for copying, scanning and photographing in the Library Regulations. click here.

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