About Ask The Library

Use this online reference service for help and guidance when searching for information online.

Librarians from public and academic libraries throughout Sweden can help you with book tips, finding sources of information and searching the libraries' databases.

Use the online chat service to search for information together with a librarian.
You can also send your question by email. We aim to answer emails by the next weekday.

Background

Ask The Library began as a free service in 1998 and is since 2003 run as a project with Örebro City Library as project leader. Since 1st July 2006, the service is managed by the Information and Inter-Lending Centres in Malmö, Stockholm and Umeå on behalf of the Swedish Arts Council. About 70 public libraries throughout Sweden help to staff the service.

Ask The Library is supplemented by two specialised services: Ask In Other Languages and Ask The Children's Library.

Contact and Logos

Would you like to know more or are you interested in joining the service? Then please contact us.

Fråga biblioteket - public libraries: Information and Inter-Lending Centre in Malmö,
tel 040-660 85 71, email lc.stadsbiblioteket@malmo.se

Fråga biblioteket - academic libraries: Lars Nordesjö, National Library of Sweden/ Dept. of National Co-operation, tel 08 -463 43 62, email lars.nordesjo@kb.se

Feel free to use our logotype when linking to Ask The Library. You can download a zipped folder with logos here.