Library collections
- 115 shelf kilometres of material
- 3 million books and 3 million other publications
- 5,000 new publications purchased every year from research fields in the humanities (history, comparative literature, philosophy, music, Russian and Eastern European studies)
- 400 shelf metres of new legal deposit copies (collected according to the Act on the Deposit and Conservation of Cultural Materials)
Of them,
more than 10,000 are Finnish books
4,000-5,000 are annual volumes of various periodicals
320 are annual volumes of newspapers
2,000-3,000 are music recordings
60,000 are ephemera (advertisements, brochures, instruction booklets, small magazines)
in addition to posters, annual reports, sheet music and maps - 25,000 data entries of new digital deposit copies
- 814 million data entries from Finnish websites harvested for the Library’s online archive
Library use
- 380,000 loans (including home and reading room loans) in 2015
- Approximately half of all library customers are University of Helsinki students, teachers and researchers
- Approximately half of all customers are working on their Master’s theses, doctoral dissertations or postdoctoral research
- Approximately half of all customers use library services at least once per week, and approximately 16% of them use the services more than once per week.
Digitisation and online services
- In 2015, the Library digitised approximately one million pages of nationally significant resources
- 10 million pages of digitised resources at the end of 2015
- 14 million downloads, a 24% increase in use of the service
- 16 million downloads during 2015
Services for libraries, archives, museums and other public administration
Online resources acquired by the FinELib consortium
- 79,000 licensed digital periodicals
- 12.7 million downloads
- 386,000 licensed electronic books
- 9.3 million downloads
- 15,700 licensed reference works
- 6.2 million downloads
Finna – the online service for archives, libraries and museums.
- 2.7 million visits to Finna, an increase of 125% from the previous year
- 10.2 million metadata entries on Finna.fi
- 106 archives, libraries and museums involved in Finna
Finto - the national dictionary and ontology service
- 29.7 million connections to the interface
- 30 dictionaries, ontologies and classes
- 450,000 concepts, keywords and classes
Melinda – the national metadata repository
- 9 million reference data entries in the database
- 40 libraries involved
Publication archives
- 32 million article downloads, a 33% increase from the previous year
Training
- 58 training events, with 6,240 participants from libraries, museums and archives