University of Helsinki
The library has acquired a biology eBook collection from Oxford Scholarship Online.
These titles you can also find in Helka.
Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi
Information on Eurostat statistics at City Centre Campus Library
Statistics Finland introduces Eurostats statistics
At Helsinki University Main Library
Fabianinkatu 30, computer room 4060, 4th floor
April 18th at 2 pm
Introduction is in Finnish.
More information Statistics Finland
Special work room for people with allergic sensitivities in Main Library
Special work room opens on Wednesday, April 10th, in Main Library 2nd floor.
This reading room is meant for persons who have fragrance sensitivities, pet allergies and such. It might also be suitable for some with electrical sensitivities. The reading room is meant for quiet work and cannot be reserved for individual or group use.
Trial: World eBook Library ~ 17.5.2013
World eBook Library is a collection of over 2 million eBooks for historical research in humanities, sciences and technology. The vast collection features among many others digitised eBook editions of out-of-print books originally published by top ranking universities.
Trial: 3.4. – 17.5.2013
Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi
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
Recent acquisitions: Oxford Handbooks Online – Psychology Collection
Oxford Handbooks Online contains handbooks for social scientists and humanists. Previously acquired collections are:
Business and Management
Philosophy
Political Science
Religion
Library’s recent acquisition is the Psychology Collection of 69 titles. You can browse these titles also in Helka.
Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi
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.”