Facts and Statistics 2007 visitors 199,460 (2006: 210,421) local loans 538,100 interlibrary loans to other libraries 2,370 and from other libraries 1,840 the number of information service requests was 3,703, guidance in -information retrieval was given for 437 persons and guided tours of the library were conducted for 837 persons accession of collections approx. 950 meters of shelving, at the end of the year the collection totaled 107,750 meters of shelving accession of the National Collection 78,500 units, of those 60,000 -uncatalogued publications accession of monographs and series in other collections 11,800 -volumes the sound recording collection grew by 6,560 legal deposit copies and purchases, the sheet music collection by 530 publications collections totaling over 3 million books and serials, 669,000 -microfilms and microfiches, and over 3 million units of other items the number of digitized printed products´ pages was over 327,500 items, number of newspapers microfilmed totaled 2,000 microfiches, num-ber of conserved small printings and manuscripts was 12,000 units the databases of the Library´s own collections contain over 1.8 million -references, a growth of 30,100 the National Bibliography database FENNICA contains 827,100 -bibliographic entries, the National Discography database VIOLA -contains 760,000 discographer entries the Union Catalogue of the Finnish research libraries (LINDA) contains 4.9 million references staff: 285 full-time employees the Library has 4 service points, 2 in Helsinki, 1 in Mikkeli and 1 in -Urajärvi Loan services 2005 2006 2007 Local loans 526,800 553,000 538,000 Interlibrary services 3,900 4,000 4,200 Total 530,700 557,100 542,200 Databases of the Library´s own collections, number of titles 2005 2006 2007 National Collection Fennica 788,800 808,100 827.100 Other collectionss 812,300 840,000 877,700 Premises and Employees 2006 Premises Total 25 500 m2 User service areas 4 600 m2 Collection areas 19 600 m2 Other areas 700 m2

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