About Nasjonalbiblioteket (Norway)
The National Library of Norway’s digital collection, the largest open newspaper corpus in the Nordics. Full-text search with media type and year filters returns text snippets around each match and a link to the page viewer at nb.no. Some material is view-only from Norwegian IP addresses, but search and snippets are open.
Questions you can ask Nasjonalbiblioteket
Type them into Kahubi’s chat once Nasjonalbiblioteket is connected.
“What did Norwegian newspapers report about the 1834 cholera outbreak in Christiania?”
What comes back: Newspaper issues from 1834 with title, date and a link to the page viewer at nb.no.
“Find books about Sami reindeer husbandry published before 1920.”
What comes back: Digitised books with publisher, year and viewer links.
Nasjonalbiblioteket MCP tools
The 1 tool the Nasjonalbiblioteket server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
nb_searchFull-text search across the digitised collection.
Using Nasjonalbiblioteket in Kahubi
- Hosted by Kahubi. Kahubi runs this server itself so it stays reliable enough for research use.
- Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
- Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Nasjonalbiblioteket.
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