The National Library of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), has entered into an agreement with OCLC to add four important collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat for discovery of these valuable resources worldwide.
The extensive and historically significant data comprise large numbers of digitised books, journals, newspapers and parliamentary papers, aggregated from libraries across the Netherlands. The agreement is the latest development in a productive and long-standing partnership between OCLC and the National Library.
The arrangement directs users searching WorldCat to more than 2 million pages from some 11,000 books published in the Dutch-speaking world between 1781 and 1800, 80 journals from between 1840 and 1940, parliamentary papers from between 1814 and 1995, and more than 6 million digitised newspaper pages. The content originates from the Netherlands, the Dutch East Indies, Surinam, the Netherlands Antilles, and the United States.
WorldCat searchers can get to full-text content made available by the National Library through its Delpher service.
