The Library’s role is set out in Lög um Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn (the Act on the National and University Library of Iceland), No. 142/2011 (in Icelandic). The Library is to be at once the national library of Iceland and the library of the University of Iceland, and as a research library it must provide information services for everyone in the country in the fields of science and scholarship, public administration, business, and arts and culture.
See also the regulation on the Library, No. 170/2014.
Under Lög um skylduskil til safna (the Legal Deposit Act), No. 20/2002 (in Icelandic), the Library receives copies of works published or made public in Iceland. The purpose is to preserve them permanently, to compile complete catalogues of this material and to make it available for study and research.
See also the regulation on legal deposit to libraries (in Icelandic), No. 982/2003.
See also Bókasafnalög, the Library Act (in Icelandic), No. 150/2012.
Agreements
Collaboration agreement with the University of Iceland
Collaboration agreement with the Library and Information Science programme