5,000 new publicationspurchased 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 entriesfrom Finnish websites harvested for the Library’s online archive
