The reservations of the student group areas in Aleksandria move from the varaus.it.helsinki.fi system to Office 365 as of 1 January 2016. The old varaus.it.helsinki.fi will be shut down in January 2016.
In Office 365, the reservations are made using the dedicated calendar where students have the right to make reservations.
Reservations already made for year 2016 are not transferred automatically to Office 365. If necessary, the IT Center contacts the people who have already made such reservations.
Helsinki University Library’sopen dataweb serviceapi.hulib.helsinki.fioffersthe vast majority ofthe library’s data in easy-to-use JSON format. In addition to library catalog data, the service contains data ofUniversity of Helsinkidisciplines andlibraryopening hours.The APIsare documented in Swaggerspecifications.
Citizens and businesses canretrieve library’s data fromthe service for personal or commercialpurposes.For example, we hope to seenew mobileservices based on our data.The service will be expanded anddeveloped further in the future. We are planningto open data of Helda, as well as University’s researchgroups‘ publication datathrough the service.
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The servicewas implemented by the Helsinki University Library’sapplication developmentgroup. Helsinki University Libraryhas long been apioneer in the applicationof information technology, but the current closedlibrary system preventsthe library catalog datafrom appearing insearch engines such as Google. The current librarysystemdoes not provide any toolsfor openingthe data.The upcomingnewlibrarysystemshould havebuilt-in supportfor open APIs.
Craft Science and Home Economics have now their own guides especially designed to fullfill researchers’ information needs. You will find the most relevant sources of information, core databases, journals and news feeds from our guides.
The ResearchGuides lists a selection of major information resources in various research fields provided by the Library.
Starting January 2016 the Main Library in theKaisa House and The Viikki Campus Library will launch self-service for picking up reserved books.
Reservedbooks can bepicked up fromthe customer serviceareas inthe librariesafter thecustomer has received anotice of arrival. Reserved items are inthe open shelves alphabetized by the customer’sname.The customer cancheck out the reserved books on the self-service check-out stations like any other books.
Textbooks are subject toa reservation fee(1 euro / book). Please note that thefee will be addedto customer’s dataas soon as thebook is ready for pick up. Other than textbookscan still be reserved free of charge. The fee for all requests that have not been picked up is €2/book if the request has not been cancelled before the notice of arrival.
The reserved books are to be found on open shelves at the self-service area
Ifyou do not wishyour name visible on open shelves, please contactthe library.You can agree topick up your reservations at the service deskas before.
The elevators to the Kaisa-library from Kaisaniemenkatu and metrostation are out of order.
Repairs will start on December 17th at 12 p.m., and are expected to be finished during the afternoon. During the reparation will also elevators inside the Kaisa-library be out of order.
You can only enter the library from Fabianinkatu and through the café on Vuorikatu.
For equal access options, please contact the library in advance:
Main Library
Fabianinkatu 30
tel. 02941 23920
email: library-citycentre@helsinki.fi
Service for the University of Helsinki and HUCH researchers
A click on the logo guides you to the order form!
HUPS is a Helsinki University Library’s service for researchers, using which the Helsinki University and HUCH staff can order books and copies of journal articles free of charge from the Helsinki University Library’s collections.
The material is delivered directly to researcher and the researcher therefore does not have to retrieve it from the library personally.
Some researchers have already become regular users of the service.
Literature arrives in the mailbox
Trial of the HUPS service started in May 2015. In half a year, over 300 orders have been made from all over the University. Requests have mostly been for article copies, little more than a third of the orders have been books. As a rule, orders have been delivered within a few days.
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