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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
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2005
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2006
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2007
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2008
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Local loans
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526,800
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553,000
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538,000
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512,700
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Interlibrary services
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3,900
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4,000
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4,200
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4,400
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Total
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530,700
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557,100
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542,200
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521,500
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Databases of the Library´s own collections, number of titles
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2005
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2006
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2007
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2008
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National Bibliography Fennica
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788,800
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808,100
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827,100
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848,000
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National Discography Viola
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671,886
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715,759
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759,764
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794,100
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Other collectionss
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812,300
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840,000
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877,700
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852,400
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Premises 2008
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Total
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25 500 m2
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User service areas
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4 600 m2
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Collection areas
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19 600 m2
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Other areas
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700 m2
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