| Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek = Bibliothèque nationale suisse = Biblioteca nazionale svizzera | |
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| The Swiss National Library building in Berne | |
| Established | 1895 |
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| Reference to legal mandate | Law about the Swiss National Library (available in German, French and Italian) |
| Location | Berne, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 46°56′29″N 7°26′59″E / 46.94139°N 7.44972°E |
| Branches | 1 (Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel) |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | books, journals, newspapers, magazines, maps, official publications, posters, drawings and manuscripts |
| Size | 5.1M items |
| Criteria for collection | Helvetica: publications published in Switzerland or written by Swiss authors or concerning Switzerland |
| Legal deposit | No, but agreements with publishers |
| Access and use | |
| Access requirements | Reading rooms: free. Registration for lending: be Swiss resident or citizen over 18 |
| Circulation | 78,000 (2007) |
| Other information | |
| Budget | 32.9M Swiss francs (2008, incl. internal federal costing; $31.8M, 2nd quarter 2008) |
| Director | Ms. Marie-Christine Doffey |
| Staff | 160 (124 FTE) |
| Website | http://www.nb.admin.ch/slb/index.html?lang=en |
This page shows The Swiss National Library's infobox with the new proposed coding and additional data
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