How to register

You must register as a user before you can borrow material from the libaray.
Anyone over the age of 14 can acquire a library card free of charge.
You are personally responsible for the card and if you loose it, you must inform the library. A new card costs kr. 50,-
 

Pin Code

When you want a PIN or need to change the PIN you can do it on www.bokasavn.fo

Foreign Citizens and Students

If foreign citizens stay longer than three months in the Faroes and are in posession of a Faroese CPR-Number they can be registered.

 

Loans

The material of Føroya Landsbókasavn must in most cases be returned within 29 days. You will receive a recall notice after 29 days.

Reservations and Renewals

If books are out on loan you can make an reservation and you'll receive an e-mail or a call when they are ready. If no one is in line for the book, renewals can be made by telephone or on www.bokasavn.fo. You can renew up to three times.

Fees

Fees are charged for late return of materials as seen here:

7-14 days overdue kr. 20,- 
15-28 days overdue kr. 70,-
more than 29 days overdue kr. 140,-

After this, the matter will be forwarded as a question of compensation.
In conection with the bill for compensation an additional fee of kr. 140,- will be charged.

Compensation

Users are responsible for damage or loss of library material will be required to pay compensation. If it is not possible to replace the library material you must pay an amount of money corresponding to the valuation of the lost material. If the material is recovered Føroya Llandsbókasavn will return the money you have paid. Fees will not be returned.

Prices

Payments for printing etc.

Price kr. 1,- for A4 and A5, kr. 2.- for A3.

For prints in colour kr. 5 for A4 and kr. 10 for A3. 
The printer prints on both sides of the paper.

Prints from microfilm are kr. 3 for A3 and A4.Print-out from the computer kr. 1 and in colour kr. 5.
In both cases format A4.

USB sticks

4 GB 50 kr.

The library system

The library system contains physical and electronic resources from the National Library, the university library, colleges and the public libraries in the Faroe Islands.

 

Interlibrary Loans

Interlibrary Loans are understood as lending- and copying services between libraries.
The purpose of the Interlibrary Loans cooperation is to provide all libraries, on behalf of their users, with material they do not posess themselves.
Interlibrary Loans can be shipped to all libraries, institutions and enterprises.
Reservations can be made by e-mail, on-line, fax, telephone or by using standardised forms.
The borrowing library should verify each request and post it to the library which seems to own it.
The lending library decides method of dispatch, time-limit and other conditions. The borrowing library bears the responsibility of the material and the return of it as well as eventual economic compensation for lost items.

Below we list material which the libraries are not obliged to deliver, although they can make their own decisions from case to case:

• Newspapers (Faroese newspapers on microfilm can be comissioned from Statsbiblioteket in Århus Denmark)
• Magazines (Photocopies from papers and magazines can be sent) 
• Bibliogarphies, enclyclopaedias etc. which are indispensable on the premises
• Maps, pictures and small brochures
• Large quantity of material
• Valuable, rare or old and fragile material
• Manuscripts and other material from special-collections
• AV-material (Films, tapes etc.)