The Helsinki University Library () is the largest multidisciplinary university library in
Finland
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. It was established on 1 January 2010. The Helsinki University Library is an independent institute of the
University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...
and open to all information seekers.
The Helsinki University Library includes the Main Library in the Kaisa House, Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki Campus Libraries, as well as internal library services. The library offers information and library services in the fields of science of all four campuses of the University of Helsinki.
Key information
About 1.9 million customers visit the Helsinki University Library annually. There are about 40,400 active borrowers per year, and of them 11,000 are new customers.
Everyone has the right to use the library, and persons over the age of 15 who live in Finland have the right to borrow books. Electronic materials are available for use to all customers in the library facilities and for the university community also online.
The library offers its customers wide collections of printed and electronic materials. There are altogether about 73.5 shelf-kilometres of printed books and journals. Printed materials are borrowed and renewed altogether 2.6 million times annually. There are about 33,000 licensed electronic journals and 356,000 electronic books available.
The Meilahti Campus Library Terkko is the
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Documentation Center in Finland. One of the
European Documentation Centre
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s in Finland is located in the Main Library in the Kaisa House.
The
Embassy of the United States to Finland maintains the American Resource Center, which operates in connection with the Helsinki University Library at the Kaisa House.
Sources
Helsinki University Library Website
References
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University of Helsinki
Libraries in Finland
2010 establishments in Finland
Libraries established in 2010