Key figures 2015

• 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

• 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.

• In 2015, the Library digitised approximately one million pages of nationally significant resources

digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi

• 10 million pages of digitised resources at the end of 2015
• 14 million downloads, a 24% increase in use of the service

kansalliskirjasto.fi/en

• 16 million downloads during 2015
   

• National Library revenue in 2015: €29,041,027    
• National Library expenses in 2015: €27,158,973       

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