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bibliotek.dk is a Danish Internet service that allows for search for materials in public Danish libraries. It is a library catalog.
Search targets include books, newspaper and journal articles, LP records, DVD, CD-ROMs, etc. Material from Danish libraries can be requested and sent to the local library.
Dansk BiblioteksCenter (DBC), a state-owned limited liability company, develops and maintains the service.
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The Royal Library in Copenhagen is the national library of Denmark and the university library of the University of Copenhagen. It is among the largest libraries in the world and the largest in the Nordic countries. In 2017, it merged with the State and University Library in Aarhus to form a combined national library. The combined library organisation is known as the Royal Danish Library.
The Danish National Library Authority is an inter-disciplinary public and research library institution and an independent agency under the Danish Ministry of Culture. It is the Danish government's central administrative and advisory body to the public libraries and the research libraries as well as the administrative authority for the Danish law no. 340, Act on library activities of 17 May 2000, and the amendment, law no. 30 of 10 January 2005.
The former Roman Catholic bishopric of Odense was a diocese in Denmark which included the islands of Funen, Langeland, Tåsinge, Lolland, Falster, Als, and Ærø. Its episcopal see was located in Odense at St. Canute's Cathedral.
Julius Andreas Bechgaard was a Danish composer of piano pieces, songs, and operas.
The architecture of Denmark has its origins in the Viking period, richly revealed by archaeological finds. It became firmly established in the Middle Ages when first Romanesque, then Gothic churches and cathedrals sprang up throughout the country. It was during this period that, in a country with little access to stone, brick became the construction material of choice, not just for churches but also for fortifications and castles.
The Danish Center for Research on Women and Gender (KVINFO) is a Danish information center about women's issues. It primarily aims to provide the general public with information about the results of women's studies and gender research undertaken in Denmark and internationally.
Pleated Christmas hearts are Danish, Norwegian, and north German crafts, commonly used as Christmas ornaments.
Gaffa is a free nordic music magazine with local editions in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Gaffa is Denmark's largest and oldest music magazine. It has been published since 1983 and has 320,000 print readers and 750,000 online readers each month.
Johan Ludvig Mansa, was a German-Danish landscape gardener, born April 10, 1740 in Zweibrücken, Germany, where his father was palace gardener. In 1765 he went to Denmark and was gardener at Fuglsang Manor, Lolland. In the 1780s, he was appointed as a gardener and steward of Marienlyst Castle in Helsingør, Denmark and in 1794 as a gardener at Frederiksborg Castle. Finally in 1799 he was employed as a gardener and steward at Fredensborg Palace. The majority of his work was in transforming formal French gardens into English landscape gardens. Some remnants of his works can still be seen on the slope north of Marienlyst Castle in Helsingør as well as a few manors and palaces around Denmark.
Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer, was a German-Danish philologist, theologian, librarian, bibliophile, palaeographer, diplomat, and Bible translator.
Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon is a collection of over 1,900 biographies of Danish women from the Middle Ages to the present. The first edition was published in 2001 by Rosinante & Co, Copenhagen. Free searchable online access is available from the website of KVINFO.
The so-called Heart Book is a 16th-century Danish manuscript, now kept in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen.
Karen Brahe, was a Danish aristocrat and book collector.
Der kom en dag is a 1955 Danish dramatic film directed by Sven Methling, It stars John Wittig, Kjeld Jacobsen and Astrid Villaume as Danish resistance fighters during the last days of the German occupation of Denmark in World War II.
The Danish Bibliographic Centre , based in Ballerup, Denmark, produces and supplies bibliographic data and information services — for example, the Danish DK5 system derived from the Dewey Decimal Classification — to Danish libraries.
Dokk1 or Dokken is a government building, public library and culture center in Aarhus, Denmark. It is situated on Hack Kampmanns Plads in the city center by the waterfront next to the Custom House. Dokk1 is part of the much larger development project Urban Mediaspace Aarhus, jointly financed by Aarhus Municipality and Realdania for 2.1 billion DKK. It is designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Kristine Jensen, with construction managed by NCC AB. Construction broke ground 8 June 2011 and the building was inaugurated four years later on 20 June 2015.
Ejner Bainkamp Johansson was a Danish art historian, magister of art, writer, and documentary film director. He is also a 1998 N. L. Høyen Medal recipient.
Rosan Bosch is the founder and creative director of Rosan Bosch Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. Internationally known for the design of the Swedish Vittra school at Telefonplan, Bosch has designed learning environments for Sheikh Zayed Private Academy in Abu Dhabi, the IB school Western Academy of Beijing in China and Liceo Europa in Spain.
Ingrid Vibeke Ammundsen née Simonsen (1913–1988) was a Danish librarian who was active in the research library sector. From 1957, she headed Denmark's Technical Library where she introduced computerized search systems in the early 1960s. When the library moved to Lyngby in 1971 to serve the Technical University of Denmark, she broke new ground for research libraries by introducing open shelves for books and journals, allowing visitors direct access to the library's holdings. In the 1970s, she proposed and headed the DANDOK database system for scientific and technical information.