The University of Oslo Library ( no, Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo, UBO) is a library connected to the University of Oslo. Like the university, it was established in 1811 with

Georg Sverdrup Georg Sverdrup (born Jørgen Sverdrup; 25 April 1770 – 8 December 1850) was a Norwegian statesman, best known as one of the presidents of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in Eidsvoll in 1814. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament and ...

as the first head librarian. It originally doubled as the Norwegian national library, and was located at the old University of Oslo campus. In 1913 the current library building in ''Henrik Ibsens gate'' was completed. Head librarian at the time, from 1876 to 1922, was

Axel Drolsum Axel Charlot Drolsum (20 August 1846 – 16 September 1927) was a Norwegian librarian, who headed the University Library of Oslo from 1876 to 1922. Biography He was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway as a son of military officer and businessm ...

. In 1989 the institution National Library of Norway was established. It finally took over the national library tasks from the University Library in 1998, allowing the latter to concentrate on university matters. The same year, the University Library left the building in ''Henrik Ibsens gate'' for the newly constructed Georg Sverdrup's House, located at the modern University of Oslo campus at Blindern.

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