You still have time to evaluate the library services – the survey is open 4.3.-7.4.2013!

The results of the survey will help your library in evaluating and developing the library services. Your opinion is important to the library!

By answering the questionnaire you can also take part in the prize draw for books and other prizes.

The national user survey is carried out 4.3.-7.4.2013 in the whole country. The users of public libraries, academic libraries and several special libraries can take the survey. For three years ago the survey was taken by over 34 000 library users. The survey is coordinated by the National Library.

To take the survey, please click the link below:
https://my.surveypal.com/yleinenkysely

Kimmo Tuominen the new University Librarian

Kimmo Tuominen, Doctor of Social Sciences, has been appointed University Librarian of the Helsinki University Library. Tuominen is currently Chief Librarian at the Jyväskylä University Library. Kaisa Sinikara, the present University Librarian in Helsinki, will retire on 1 August 2013.

Kimmo Tuominen has previously worked as the director of the University of Helsinki Faculty of Arts Library, the head of reference and archival services at the Library of Parliament, and as a fixed-term professor in communication, focusing on information studies, at the University of Helsinki Department of Communication. Kimmo Tuominen is the chair of the Finnish Research Library Association and vice chair of the Council for Finnish University Libraries.

The University Librarian heads and develops the operations of the Helsinki University Library, Finland’s largest multidisciplinary university library, which operates both online and on campus. The four campus libraries and the Library’s common services provide the information and library services needed for research and learning at the University of Helsinki.

Helsinki University Library Receives Book Donation from the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission

Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission donated Toivo Koskikallio’s book collection to Helsinki University Library. Missionary and sinologist Toivo Koskikallio (1889-1967) studied at the University of Helsinki and worked in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Koskikallio’s book collection contains mainly dictionaries and Chinese spiritual and philosophic literature. Oldest works are from the 1700’s and a part of the material is in old Chinese that only experts can read.
The collection was donated by Seppo Rissanen, Director of Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission, and received by Ulla-Maija Forsberg, Vice-Rector of University of Helsinki and University Librarian Kaisa Sinikara. Koskikallio’s relatives (Jouko and Petteri Koskikallio) were also present at the donation ceremony.
Photo: Helena Hiltunen

Helsinki University Library Receives Book Donation from the Embassy of Mexico

Agustin Gutiérrez Canet, the Ambassador of Mexico, and Hannu Uusi-Videnoja, former Ambassador of Finland to Mexico, presented the Helsinki University Library with at book donation of Mexican art and cultural history.  The books will be included in the Art History collection of  the Main Library in the  Kaisa House.  Included in the donation is a book written by Ambassador Agustín Gutiérrez Canet on Mexico and Finland.

Rector Thomas Wilhelmsson, who received the donation, and  University Librarian Kaisa Sinikara were very pleased  to accept this prominent addition to the  Helsinki University Library collections.

The Main Library in the Kaisa House received an impressive book donation. Inspecting it Researcher in Latin American Studies Sarri Vuorisalo-Tiitinen, University Librarian Kaisa Sinikara, Rector Thomas Wilhelmsson, Ambassador Agustín Gutiérrez Canet, former Ambassador of Finland to Mexico Hannu Uusi-Videnoja and Library Director Pälvi Kaiponen.
Photo Ari Aalto.

Annual Review of Animal Biosciences launched

Annual Reviews has launched a new journal Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. Unrestricted online access to the first volume is available until February 2014.

“The Annual Review of Animal Biosciences places a particular emphasis on biotechnology, genetics, genomics, and breeding, as well as veterinary medicine, especially veterinary pathobiology, infectious diseases and vaccine development, and conservation and zoo biology. It is intended for scientists focused on wild and domesticated animal species, veterinarians, conservation biologists and geneticists.”

80 % of our Journals are OnLine!

  • About 80% of our more than 30 000 journals are e-journals or also available as e-versions.
  • As a student or a staff member of the University of Helsinki (= as a holder of a user account for the University network) you can read our e-journals  anytime of day and from anywhere via remote connection.
  • As a local customer of the library you can read our e-journals on the library premises either by using the computers reserved for visitors or on your own laptop via a wireless HUPNet connection. The customer service desk can provide you with a temporary HUPNet account.
  • There are several alternative routes to our e-journal collections. You can find a certain e-journal through the search functionality of our web site or NELLI or HELKA or browse e-journals on a certain subject through NELLI. You also can start by searching for a certain article or articles on a certain subject  through the NELLI article search or Google Scholar  or through reference databases provided  by the Library. You will find links to articles on the result lists if the journal in question is subscribed to the Library.

Orlando – database of women’s writing ~ free access up to March 31st

Cambridge University Press if offering free access to online database Orlando. The access is for the month of March and will expire on 31st.

Your login information is below:

Username:  womenshistory2013
Password: orlando 

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a highly dynamic and rich resource for researchers, students, and readers with an interest in literature, women’s writing, or cultural history more generally. With about five and a half million words of text, it is full of factual, critical, and interpreted material. This first release of Orlando includes biographical and writing career entries on over a thousand writers, more than eight hundred and fifty of them British women. It also includes selected non-British or international women writers, and British and international men, whose writing was an important, sometimes a shaping, element in a particular writing climate. Orlando also includes more than thirty thousand dated items representing events and processes (in the accounts of these writers, but also in the areas of history, science, medicine, economics, the law, and other contexts).

Orlando provides new biographical and critical accounts of the lives and works of its subjects, together with contextual materials relevant to critical and historical readings. It fully documents the materials it references, and it includes a bibliographical database of more than twenty thousand titles.