National Collection
Non-fiction 1810-1972
Collection materials in format
Analogue
Digitised
On microfilm
Non-fiction collection 1810–1972 in the National Collection contains the whole gamut of the non-fiction and scientific literature received as legal deposit c
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Kansalliskirjaston hakupalvelu (opens a new tab)Collection description
Non-fiction collection 1810–1972 in the National Collection contains the whole gamut of the non-fiction and scientific literature received as legal deposit copies over 160 years: from alphabet-books and text books to doctoral theses, from histories and anniversary books to registers, from almanacs and calendars to hymn books and bibles, from dictionaries and tourist guides to statistics and official publications and everything in between. The materials have been divided in several field-specific groups, see sub-collections.
Collection languages
Material type
Books
Accrual status
Completed
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Main collection
National CollectionParent collection
Books in the National CollectionRestrictions of use
Only for Special Collections Reading Room Only for reading rooms Kept in closed stack collection, use requires ordering the publication Digitised on legal deposit terminals as e-material for remote access As a microfilm on reading stationsCollection themes
Catalogue information
Card catalogue made of the collection
Bibliography made of the collection
The collection has been described in the reference database
The collection has been only partially catalogued
More information about cataloguing
The collection is for the most part catalogued into the National Library Search. However, some of the older literature (up until 1977) with its location data is only available in the card index of the National Collection.
Collection sizes
4000
linear metres
Parallel collections
Heikki A. Reenpää LibraryProvenance
Legal deposit copy collection
Acquisition policy
Was statutorily accrued 1810–1972 as legal deposit copies. However, some imprints were never submitted to the collections, and some have been lost for various reasons. Some publications are in such a bad condition that better copies are sought to replace them. The collection is supplemented with private donations. Information about literature missing from the National Collection is partly available at the catalogue of missing literature in the Fennica database, https://fennica.linneanet.fi/vwebv/search?searchType=0&searchCode=FT*&s… .