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Museum Stavanger Library
Muségt. 16
N-4010 Stavanger, Norway
Phone: +47 51 84 27 00 (switchboard)
Fax: +47 51 84 27 01 
bibliotek@stavanger.museum.no

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Opening hours
mg 0550Tuesday-Friday 9am – 3pm
Closed for holidays July 11th-August 1st

Professional subjects
The library is an interdisciplinary research library and consists mainly of specialized literature within the museum’s professional subjects. Search our library catalogue (BIBSYS) (link >>)

Our opportunity to lend books
The library serves first and foremost the museum staff, but is also open to the public. Loans are somewhat limited, but the library’s reading room (6 places) is available, as well as copying facilities, and the library annually executes a considerable number of orders from other libraries both domestic and abroad.

Library staff
Head Librarian: Karin R. Hausberg, karin.hausberg@stavanger.museum.no Ph.+47 407 28 458
Librarian: Bente Kvame Hadland, bente.kvame.hadland@stavanger.museum.no Ph.+47 407 28 381

The library's history
mg 0449The library was founded as early as 1877 for the use of the museum staff. At that time the whole library consisted of 61 volumes, whereas in 2011 it contains nearly 70 000 volumes, approximately half of them periodicals.

The library has obtained a large part of its collection through gifts and exchanges. Ever since 1891 the library has had mutual agreements with other scientific institutions regarding the exchange of periodicals, yearbooks and monographic series. Although there is now a decline in this activity, in 2011 Stavanger Museum Yearbook is still sent to more than 400 exchange connections, in Norway and abroad.

For a long time the library was administrated by the curators of the various departments. A librarian was employed in 1966. At this time most of the library was moved to one location, and the classification and cataloguing of the books started. The UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) was the classification system chosen. In 1989, the library transferred from a card index system to the electronic system Micromarc. In 2004 it was decided to join the BIBSYS system which is the Norwegian national library system used by research- and special libraries. This is based on cooperation by all the member institutions by way of cataloguing their collections in a joint (common?) database.

A more detailed history of the library can be found in the following articles: ‘The Stavanger Museum Library 1877-1977’ by Thurid Wishman in the Stavanger Museum Yearbook 1976, pages 129-140 and ‘Stavanger Museums bibliotek (1978 til 2002)’ by Karin R. Hausberg in Stavanger Museum Yearbook 2002, pages 75-79.