In 2001 and 2007, the internationally important art and architecture library at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts was preserved and housed in the room created by member Åke Axelsson thanks to generous grants from the Söderberg Foundations. The collection has a completely unique core of study and teaching materials for students and members from the 18th and early 19th centuries and serves one of the world's oldest surviving schools of architecture and the library. The 1806 library contains around 1200 works of significant value.

An important cataloging of the collection is currently being completed, made possible by the support of the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. This cataloging is being carried out by one of Sweden's foremost experts, Olof Kåhrström. The fact that this comprehensive catalogue will be the subject of an attractive, illustrated publication will also enhance our country's reputation in international research, in cultural history and its various branches of art, learning and book history, but also in libraries, antiquarian bookshops and auction houses worldwide. This catalog would offer an overview of a representative selection of the more important older art and architecture literature that databases can never provide. The printed publication of some 600 pages will be illustrated with beautiful photographs of frontispieces, illustrations and book volumes. It will begin with a short text on the history of the Academy and the collection.