The Library
New books in the library
Opening hours
Monday - Friday 09:00-19:00
Contact us
Follow the KHiO Library at Instagram: @khiobiblioteket
Tel: +47 22 99 55 10
E-mail: bibliotek@khio.no
Postal address: Pb. 6853 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo
Are the library's group rooms available?
Check TimeEdit (select the library's group rooms 1 and 2)
Databases
🔓 = Access on campus or by FEIDE login. (Your KHiO username and password).
Aria database
The Aria Database is a collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. The Database also provides access to a collection of operatic sound files to give visitors an idea of what each aria sounds like. The Aria Database also contains information on available scores and sound files that can be purchased to aid in study and enjoyment. Currently, the Database holds information on the complete operatic aria collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other composers.
Art & Architecture Complete 🔓
Journals, e-books and pictures about art, design and architecture.
Artnet
Artnet is the leading online resource for the international art market, and the destination to buy, sell, and research art online. Founded in 1989 with the goal of bringing transparency to the art world, artnet’s comprehensive suite of products offers a variety of art market resources to our audience of collectors, dealers, and art enthusiasts.
ARTstor🔓
1.9 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences
Atekst 🔓
Norwegian fulltext newspaper and magazine articles.
Colombine
Nordic theatre publisher
CRIStin
Research and artistic development at Norwegian universities, colleges and institutes.
Digitalt Museum
Norwegian museum collections: art, arts and crafts, cultural history and much more.
Diktregister
Database of Norwegian poetry.
Doollee.com
Modern dramatists and plays written in or translated to English. From 1956-.
Dramas
Norwegian Theatre Council database of plays.
Encyclopaedia Britannica🔓
Campus access only
Europeana
Explore 48,633,358 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe
Google Arts & Culture
Access to high-resolution images of artwork in a number of museums around the world. You can also move around in the museums with Google Street View Technology. It can be defined in the categories Artists, Mediums, Art movements, Historical events, Historical figures, and Places.
Google Scholar
Web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
Classical sheet music
Internet Movie DataBase
The worlds largest movie database
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text🔓
Fulltext journal articles and e-books
IPA Source🔓
Transcriptions and translations of arias and songs.
KHIODA🔓
Oslo National Academy of the Arts Digital Archive
KunstBib
Norwegian bibliography of art history.
Manusbanken🔓
Contemporary Norwegian Plays
Materia
Material database with descriptions of 2600+ materials for architects and designers, within the following categories: Ceramics, Coatings, Concretes, Glass, Metals, Natural stones, Other naturals, Plastics, Wood.
Medici.tv🔓
Leading channel for classical music
The Norwegian National Theatre Archive (productions and scripts)
The Norwegian National Theatre script archive
Nordiska Strakosch
Nordic publishing house for drama.
NYPL Digital Collections
The New York Public Library has scanned more than 840,000 images in high resolution. The database is updated daily and includes prints, photographs, maps, posters, menus, illustrations, catalogues etc.
Operabase
Operabase has documented operatic activity worldwide since 1996, with over 410,000 performances on file. It records the work of artists in over 900 theatres, and publishes season information to opera-goers in 23 languages.
Ordnett🔓
Dictionaries: Norwegian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
Sang- og viseregister
Database of Norwegian songs.
Skuespillerkatalogen🔓
Catalogue of Norwegian actors and actresses.
For username and password, ask our librarian.
Stylepark
Database of materials for architects and artists.
UbuWeb
Educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.
Web Gallery of Art
European art from 1100-1850. (Over 22600 works.)
Feel free to ask your librarian for help!
Library lending policy
Who can borrow?
Everyone can borrow, but if you are not a student or an employee at KHiO, you have limited borrowing rights - a maximum of three documents at a time.
Students and staff at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) are our primary users and can borrow freely from our collections. Employee/student ID-card is your loan card. If you do not find what you require, you can request an inter-library loan. Some material may be used within the Library.
Students and employees at KHiO can also borrow directly from the libraries of The Oslo School of Architecture and Design and The Norwegian Academy of Music.
Lending rules
The borrower is personally responsible for all loans.
Loan period:
- 30 days for books and sheet music.
- 7 days for DVDs, CDs, theatre manuscripts, curriculum literature and journals.
Encyclopedias and bound journals are not for loan.
You can easily renew your loans by logging in to Oria , by phone or email or by visiting the circulation desk. Loans can usually be renewed as long as the items are not requested by other patrons. The library sends overdue reminders by e-mail/SMS.
If the items are not returned or renewed after the second overdue reminder you will receive a compensation claim of NOK 750,- minimum per item. You will not be allowed to borrow anything else until the claim is sorted out.
Items borrowed from other libraries are processed according to the other library's lending policy.
Loss of a student ID-card must be reported to the library. The library must be notified of any name and address changes
If these regulations are not followed your borrowing priveliges may be revoked.
Information for faculty
New material is added to the Library's already extensive collection on an ongoing basis, to provide faculty and staff with access to a comprehensive range of quality resources in areas of our institution’s education and research. Users are encouraged to be actively involved in selecting new material.
ISBN and ISSN
The library administers the institutional ISBN range (International Standard Book Number) and takes care of the legal depositing of all materials produced with the National Library in Mo i Rana. For more information about ISBN and ISSN (International Standard Serial Number), please see this page.
Coursepacks
The Kopinor Higher education licence requires all coursepacks consisting of two or more book excerpts to be registered for clearance in Bolk. With the Bolk service, you can search, compile and order digital and/or printed coursepacks through one single solution. Bolk secures overview and budget control. With digital delivery, you avoid extra costs for unsold copies.
The Library can help you with literature searches if you are stuck. For other necessary course information, please contact the student administration! Clearing the rights and/or producing the coursepacks may take up to 3 weeks, so start producing them as soon as possible. For more information, please see this page.
Artistic Research and Publishing
- CRIStin - The Norwegian Research Information System
- KHIODA - Our own institutional repository (digital archive - fulltext, images, sound and film)
- Nora - search Norwegian institutional repositories (open access, fulltext)
- EndNote and Zotero - reference management systems
- Scientific journals, series and publishers
If you have any questions regarding what to register, please contact the library: khioda@khio.no
Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
NSD is responsible for the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers. This forms the basis for research publications that have an impact on the weighted funding model. Here you can search for authorised publication channels, also within the design and arts fields: Search the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers.
Reading difficulties
Anyone with reading difficulties due to illness or disability can use the services of The Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB).
Citation and references
Our various training programs aim to develop students’ information literacy skills.
Our goal is that our students should be able to:
- Master general and specific search techniques in information sources relevant to their studies.
- Be critically selective in their choice of information sources.
- Stay updated within their subject area.
- Know how to use and cite sources in an academic work.
Video: How to find a specific book in the KHiO Library
Video: How to sign in to Oria and renew your loans
We adjust the form and content of our training according to student level and academic program.
In addition to mandatory courses in literature search for all new students, the library offers courses and guidance in the following areas:
- Citation, referencing and copyright
- EndNote
Video: EndNote - import references from Oria and insert citation into Word
As a student or employee you can ask for guidance on the use of all library resources at any time: the library catalogue, databases (audio, film, photo, journals, etc.), how to look up material in the library, etc. You are always warmly welcome to ask a librarian!
About the library
We can offer faculty and students access to one of Norway's finest and most modern art libraries with vast, updated collections (books, cd's and film), a large collection of journals, - and specialised librarians.
Our collections
The KHiO Library's collecions cover fine art, crafts, design and performing arts. The collections count approx. 70 000 books, as well as a large collection of films and a number of special collections, including a large collection of Artists' Books. The library also offers access to several digital resources within the subject areas.
In addition, the library subscribes to national and international newspapers.
Hvordan finne frem på biblioteket
- Map of the library
- Hyllesignatur "Ref.": Dette materialet er oppstilt innerst i biblioteket. "Ref." står for "Referansesamling". Dette er materiale som må brukes på stedet. Ikke til hjemlån.
- Hyllesignatur "Nærmag." eller "Mag.": Denne litteraturen må du be bibliotekaren om å finne frem for deg da den er oppstilt i magasin.
- Bibliotekets aller eldste litteratur er pr i dag ikke registrert i vår digitale katalog. Denne må du søke opp i kortkatalogen som du finner vis à vis skranken. Dette materialet står i vårt fjernmagasin, oppstilt etter løpenummer (dvs. etter når det ble kjøpt inn). Her skjuler det seg mye spennende gammelt boklig materiale, - så denne katalogen er absolutt verdt å utforske!
- Samlingene er stilt opp etter Deweys desimalklassifikasjon. De ti hovedklassene innen Dewey .