THE NATIONAL LIBRARY
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The National Library of Finland Bulletin 2008

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Facts and Statistics 2008




  • visitors 190,480 (2007: 199,460)
  • local loans 512,700
  • interlibrary loans to other libraries 1 930 and from other libraries 1,790
  • the number of information service requests was 2,394, guidance in -information retrieval was given for 478 persons and guided tours of the library were conducted for 950 persons
  • accession of collections approx. 1 000 meters of shelving, at the end of the year the collection totaled 107,000 meters of shelving
  • accession of the National Collection 79,200 units, of those 57600 uncatalogued publications
  • accession of monographs and series in other collections 9,345 -volumes
  • the sound recording collection grew by 3,670 legal deposit copies and purchases, the sheet music collection by 300 publications
  • collections totaling over 3 million books and serials, 675,000 -microfilms and microfiches, and over 3 million units of other items
  • the number of digitized printed products´ pages was over 500,400 items number of newspapers microfilmed totaled 2,149 microfiches, number of conserved small printings and manuscripts was 15,755 units
  • the databases of the Library´s own collections contain over 2.6 million -references, a growth of 66,000
  • the National Bibliography database FENNICA contains 848,000 -bibliographic entries,
  • the National Discography database VIOLA -contains 794,100 discographer entries
  • the Union Catalogue of the Finnish research libraries (LINDA) contains 5.1 million references
  • staff: 265 full-time employees
  • the Library has 4 service points, 2 in Helsinki, 1 in Mikkeli and 1 in -Urajärvi


Loan services
2005 2006 2007 2008
Local loans 526,800 553,000 538,000 512,700
Interlibrary services 3,900 4,000 4,200 4,400
Total 530,700 557,100 542,200 521,500


Databases of the Library´s own collections, number of titles

2005 2006 2007 2008
National Bibliography Fennica 788,800 808,100 827,100 848,000
National Discography Viola 671,886 715,759 759,764 794,100
Other collectionss 812,300 840,000 877,700 852,400


Premises 2008


Total 25 500 m2
User service areas 4 600 m2
Collection areas 19 600 m2
Other areas 700 m2





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