Collections

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.