Learning Centre Minerva closes at 12 on Friday, June 9th

Learning Centre Minerva is closed from 12 – 5:45 p.m. on Friday due to filming arrangements.

Please notice also, that Learning Centre Minerva has summer opening hours from Monday, June 5th:

  • 5.-16.6. Mon – Fri 8 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.
  • 19.6.-25.8. Mon – Fri 9 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Opening of the Learning Centre Minerva on Tuesday December 1st

Minerva openingOpening on Tuesday, December 1st at 1 pm – 4 pm
Siltavuorenpenger 5A, Floor K2

Opening program: Circuit training
Presentations are in Finnish.

Ring 1: CleverTouch screen demo
Ring 2: E-point: Electronic library at your disposal
Ring 3: Office365: How to make a group work room reservation and what else is Office365
Ring 4: Ask the librarian! Tell us your experiences, greetings, feedback, wishes about the Learning Centre.

Group work area, computers, mobile storage units, reading places

The redesigned group work and reading areas will open at last at Siltavuorenpenger. Feel free to explore and test facilities! We welcome your comments and experiences: the librarian is present at 1 pm – 3 pm on Wed-Thu Dec 3rd-4th and on Tue-Thu Dec 8th-10th.

Entrance to the Learning Centre is at K2 floor, next to the Minerva Square. The space is available weekdays between 8 am – 7:45 pm. Furnishing of The Learning Centre is still in progress, so installations of sofas and computers may cause some inconvenience.

More information about the Learning Centre Minerva

Minerva’s collections move to Kaisa House in April

KirjamuuttolaatikkoThe behavioural sciences collections and the library customer service will move from Minerva to the Helsinki University Main Library in Kaisa House this spring. The last day the Minerva library will be open is 2 April 2015.

  • Journals were moved from Minerva in February and are available now in Kaisa: two most recent volumes are on the 7th floor, older volumes on the floor K4.
  • Books borrowed from Minerva on or after 2 March 2015 will not be due until 6 August 2015. Books can be returned to all campus libraries and, in April, also to the returns box at the Minerva library. You can also use the night-time returns box by the Kaisa House or by Kumpula Campus Library. The books will be marked as returned the next day the library opens.
  • Books will be moved from Minerva to Kaisa as of 7 April 2015 and will be available in Kaisa by 1 June.
  • Theses will be available in Kaisa House no later than 20 April 2015. To get access to printed theses in the Main Library, please submit a call slip in Helka from the “request” button.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the move.

More information about the move of the collections can be obtained from Ritva Hagelin, Development Manager, ritva.hagelin(at)helsinki.fi.

Minerva Library of Behavioural Sciences

Minerva’s books as long-term loan on or after March 2nd

As of Monday, March 2, you get long-term loans on material from the Minerva unit. Books borrowed or renewed from Minerva on or after 2 March 2015 will not be due until 6 August 2015. 

You have time to borrow even for a month, the last day the Minerva library will be open is 2 April 2015.

The books are moved from Minerva from April 7 and are available in Kaisa House by June.

More information on Minerva’s move