Collections - What's in the library?

  • 9/30/2011

    Book collections
    Uppsala University Library is Sweden's oldest academic library and it owns more than 5 million books on more than 134 kilometres of shelves. In order to serve Uppsala University, which embraces many different...
  • 10/3/2011

    Newspapers and journals
    Journals and magazines Swedish journals In accordance with Swedish law, all Swedish printers must deliver one copy of virtually everything they print to seven Swedish deposit libraries, which includes Uppsala Universi...
  • 10/14/2011

    Manuscript collections at Carolina Rediviva
    The manuscript collections at Uppsala University Library fill approximately 3,500 metres of shelves and consist partly of individual manuscripts, partly of the archives of people and organisations. The collections hav...
  • 10/10/2011

    Picture collections
    The Library has extensive collections of pictures including engravings and lithographs, drawings, postcards, photographs and printed pictures. The subject-matter is mainly portraits, topographical views and historic...
  • 10/14/2011

    Early imprints and special collections at Carolina Rediviva
    At Uppsala University Library we use the expression Early Imprints for publications printed before and including 1850.  Most of the published books, journals and other printed matter, were printed in hand-presses usin...
  • 10/3/2011

    Map collections
    The University Library has a large collection of printed and hand drawn maps and atlases from the late 15th century up to the modern publications of today. The greater part of the map collections are at the Section fo...
  • 10/14/2011

    Music collections at Carolina Rediviva
    The music collections at Uppsala University Library consist of printed and manuscript music, the earliest being from the 13th century. These collections have been built up since the 17th century by donations, exchange...
  • 7/11/2011

    International organisations' publications
    Uppsala University Library is a depository library for a number of international organisations. This means that the Library has access to publications from these organisations, both in print and electronically. EU and...
  • 7/11/2011

    TV and radio programmes
    The Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company (UR for short) has thousands of TV and radio programmes that are freely available for students and employees at Uppsala University to watch or listen on their own computers.

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The Library's history


Uppsala University Library - The crest

Read more about how the University Library's collections have been built up since the 17th century.