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Norway has a wide range of libraries of all kinds. To increase the accessibility of this great library network we now have the option of a national library card that can be used in several libraries.
The aim is for LÅNEKORTET to be accepted at most Norwegian libraries but it will take some time before the system is completely national. The card is free of charge.
Common library database with personal details
For LÅNEKORTET to work, information on all borrowers is registered in a common database:
- Borrower id
- Date of birth
- Sex
- Enciphered national identification number
- Name
- Up to two postal addresses
- Telephone numbers
- E-mail address
- Local library; the library that you use the most
- PIN code for self-service machines and the library’s web solutions
- Information on which libraries a user is affiliated with
Details of loans, reservations, black-listings and other relations between the user and each library, is stored only in the library.
Treatment of personal details
The project that has developed LÅNEKORTET has made a point of keeping with all rules that apply to the treatment of personal details.
- Only information not considered sensitive in relation to the Data Protection Act is stored. Personal identification numbers are necessary for unambiguous identification of individuals but are stored enciphered to avoid their reconstruction and misuse.
- Contact details will not be sold or passed on to other parties.
- All communication between each library and the central borrower register is enciphered and protected by username and password.
- The information will be stored until the borrower demands them deleted or until the library receives notification of death.
- Responsible for the treatment of this information is Bibliotek-Systemer AS, by general manager, Boks 2093 Stubberød, 3255 LARVIK.
- On https://fl.lanekortet.no/laanekort/innsyn.php you can check what information is stored about you at any time.
- You may demand your information altered or deleted in all the libraries where you use your card.
If you do not want your contact details to be available to other libraries
If you do not want a library card that can be used in other libraries, you can choose to have your contact details stored in the central register. Notify staff at the counter and they will issue you a library card that is only accepted locally.