7,400 new publicationspurchased every year from research fields in the humanities (history, comparative literature, philosophy, music, Russian and Eastern European studies)
More than 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 11,000 are Finnish books
4,000 are annual volumes of various periodicals
310 are annual volumes of newspapers
2,600 are music recordings
45,000 are ephemera (advertisements, brochures, instruction booklets, small magazines)
in addition to posters, annual reports, sheet music and maps
7,500 data entries of new digital deposit copies
178 million data entriesfrom Finnish websites harvested for the Library’s online archive