Nobel Library, Research library in Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden.
The Nobel Library (Nobelbiblioteket), officially the Swedish Academy's Nobel Library, occupies the Stock Exchange Building at Källargränd 4, an alley between Slottsbacken and Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm. Founded in 1901, it is the Swedish Academy's public library for evaluating Nobel Prize in Literature candidates. Its collection numbers some 200,000 volumes, one of northern Europe's largest devoted to literature, and it lends to the public and Nordic libraries.
The library was founded in 1901 together with the Nobel Institute of the Swedish Academy, and started out in a ten-room apartment at Norra Bantorget. As the collection grew over the following decades, it moved to its current home in the Stock Exchange Building in Gamla Stan.
The library's collections include the personal libraries of professor Henrik Schück and critic Klara Johanson. Since the early 1990s it has run the lecture series Det sköna med skönlitteraturen, and around thirty of those lectures were published in three volumes between 2009 and 2013.
The library is open on weekdays, and it is worth checking in advance whether registration is needed and which resources are accessible to visitors. Because it is a research library, access may be more limited than in a regular public library.
Among the library's special collections are the working libraries of professor Henrik Schück and critic Klara Johanson. The library also subscribes to about 150 periodicals, many of them foreign, and takes part in Sweden's national interlibrary loan scheme.
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