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Kaisa House is open on Sundays in March and April, 2017

From March 5th until April 23rd the Main Library will be open from 11 am to 5 pm on Sundays, with the exception of Easter holidays (from Friday April 14th to Monday April 17th), during which period the building will be closed.

Entrance on Sundays is from Fabianinkatu or by lift from Kaisaniemenkatu (1st floor) or by lift from Helsinki University metro station (floor K1).

Finland’s most popular learning environment works as self-service library

On Sundays Kaisa House will function as a self-service library. The collections and facilities are available to customers on all floors. The customer service on the 3rd floor is closed.

You can pick up your reservations as self-service from the open shelves at the service desk. Should you have problems with using the library or the self-service facilities, phone service will be available.

In case you need a guest login to the University network or copy cards (e.g. for printing), you have to get these earlier in the week.

The Learning Centre Aleksandria is accessible with magnetic key all Sunday

Learning Centre Aleksandria (Fabianinkatu 26) is open on weekdays from 8 am to 7:45 pm, on Saturdays from 11 am to 4:45 pm and closed on Sundays. Students at the University of Helsinki are able to access the Learning Centre outside these opening hours from 7 am until 1 am with a magnetic key. More information about using Aleksandria outside normal opening hours in Flamma intranet.

Main Library Kaisa House
– service phone 02941 23920
– email: library-citycentre (at) helsinki.fi

Helsinki University Library opening hours
Learning Centre Aleksandria

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More e-books for Russian and Eastern European Studies

Plenty of new e-books have been added to the e-book collection of the Library to support multidisciplinary research of Russia and Eastern Europe. The e-books have been purchased from the leading publishers in social sciences and humanities:

You can find these e-books in Helka database and use them in the University of Helsinki network. The purchase has been financed with support from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki.

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Guide for the use of e-books helps you with questions:
http://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/e-books-guide

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New resource: TOP SECRET of the 20th century foreign policy now digitized in Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War

Researchers and students of the University of Helsinki can now permanently access Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War, a rich resource containing British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873–1953. The majority of over 144,000 pages of content dates from the 1930s and 1940s. Spanning four key twentieth century conflicts, with a spotlight on the Second World War, the material enables research into intelligence, foreign policy, international relations, and military history in the period of Appeasement, through the Second World War, and into the early Cold War.

You can start exploring the content by theme. Quick Search provides a full-text search in all documents of the resource. In Advanced Search, you can refine your search by theme, region, document date or document type. By creating an account (My Archive), you can save searches and create reading list for later use. Help videos guide you through the key features!

The collection is sourced from The National Archives, U.K. Contact the Helsinki University Library personnel if you are interested in text mining the collection. The purchase of this Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group product for permanent access in the University of Helsinki network has been financed with support from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki.

This database can also be found via Helka database.

Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War

Feedback: e-library[at]helsinki.fi

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Do you need help with information seeking?

tyopaja_eng Welcome to our information seeking workshop!

Come and ask about library services, the usage of information services and information seeking. You can ask, for example, how to use the electronic resources at the University, what subject services and databases are available, or what is reference management software.

The workshop is in English and Finnish. You can drop in whenever you like between 3 pm – 5 pm. If you have a laptop, you can bring it along. No preregistration is needed.

Time: Every Monday 3 pm – 5 pm during the term (16.1.-5.6.2017)
Place: Helsinki University Library, Kaisa House, 5th floor, computer class 5057
Note! On 23.1. and 13.3. Kaisa House, 2nd floor, room 2024 (no computers).