Public Services

• Online Reservation
• On-Site Consultation
• Borrowing
• Digital Reproduction
• Access to KBR Spaces, Resources, and Collections
• Research Support

Document reservations are by default made online. To do this, log in to your personal account on our online catalog.

After performing your searches in the catalog, you must reserve the documents you are interested in, provided they are available for reservation.

When finalizing your reservation, you can choose between on-site consultation, borrowing, or digitization on demand. Note that borrowing and digitization are subject to restrictions for valuable and/or copyright-protected documents.

Some of the older collections are not yet accessible through the online catalog, but only via a paper-based catalog. If you cannot find what you're looking for in the online catalog, you can email bibliotheque@conservatoire.be.

On-site consultation takes only place in the reading room of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR). For more information on opening hours and accessibility of KBR, please see the Conservatoire practical information page.

Reserve your documents online from our catalog. Once you receive an email confirmation that your reserved documents are available, come to KBR during opening hours and present a valid KBR reader card. You will have access to the reading room where you can consult your reserved documents.

The KBR library card is available at KBR’s reception desk. It is free for students and staff of the CrB and KCB upon presentation of a student or staff card. For anyone outside the CrB or KCB, KBR’s registration conditions apply.

By registering or coming to work at the Library, you agree to abide by its regulations.

Document borrowing is also available at KBR.

To borrow a document, you simply need to reserve it via the Conservatory Library’s online catalog. You can then pick it up at KBR. Before going there, please make sure you have received an email confirmation that the document is available for borrowing.

Once you have received confirmation, go to the loan counter at the entrance to the KBR reading room and request the documents reserved in your name. You will be asked to sign the loan form before you can take the documents. Don’t forget to bring your student or staff card if you are a member of the CrB or KCB.

You may borrow a maximum of 4 documents for a period of 6 weeks, which can be renewed once.

When your loan period expires, you must return the documents to the loan counter at KBR. Any delays will incur penalties.

You can order a digital reproduction of a document. This service is paid and is only available in accordance with copyright laws. Documents can be requested in JPEG, TIFF, or PDF formats.

You can place your order for a digital reproduction by noting it in your reservation via the online catalog or by sending an email to numerisation@conservatoire.be. In the latter case, be sure to specify in your email either the reference number(s) of the document(s) you're interested in, or the permalink(s) of the corresponding catalog record(s) in the online catalog.

Due to the temporary presence of the Conservatoire Library within the KBR building, the KBR library card gives access to both the Conservatoire Library collections and those of KBR, including its physical and digital collections.

You can search KBR’s collections via its online catalog and your MyKBR account. To do so, simply create your free MyKBR account from the catalog.

You can also subscribe to a free annual membership for KBR’s electronic resources. These resources include major musicological and musical databases such as Grove Music Online, RILM, RIPM, JSTOR, and Cairn. Most of the electronic resources are accessible remotely.

If you simply wish to study/read/work without consulting the collections of KBR or CrB, you can go to the study room with Wi-Fi access or to the open-access spaces in the building.

More information about your visit to KBR.

More information about KBR's digital collections.

One of the Library’s missions is to support scientific, artistic, and pedagogical research based on its collections.

You can contact the Library to request information, advice, or suggestions, whether for writing an article or book, preparing an academic paper, recording musical works, or achieving an artistic result in any form. To do so, please send an email to bibliotheque@conservatoire.be.