Change in reservation practices for group work rooms in the library

Starting in summer 2016, all group work rooms will be reserved with the Office 365 calendar. The first change starts in Viikki Campus Library, where the old reservation system will be phased out in June.

Viikki Campus Library

  • Starting June 1st, reservations will be made using the Office 365 calendar.
  • The library will transfer existing reservations from the old system into the Office 365 calendar.
  • Viikki campus library is closed during the summer from June 24th until July 31st.

Main Library, Kaisa House

  • Starting July 1st, reservations will be made using the Office 365 calendar.
  • In the old Timmi-system reservations can be made for June, but no longer for July.
  • Any existing reservations for July or later will be transferred to the Office 365 calendar.

The Kumpula Campus Library and the Meilahti Campus Library Terkko are closed from June 24th until July 31st

  • Group work room reservations in Terkko will move to the Office 365 calendar after the summer break on August 1st.
  • Any existing reservations will be transferred to the Office 365 calendar.
  • The group work rooms in Kumpula are already in the Office 365 calendar, but currently reservations have to be made at the service desk.
  • Starting on August 1st, students will be able to make their own reservations using the Office 365 calendar.

The group work room reservations in the Aleksandria and Minerva learning centres are already in the Office 365 calendar since the beginning of the year 2016.

Further information and instructions will be available in June.

Reservation system for Aleksandria group work rooms changes

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.

Students are able to make reservations on Kaisa House group work rooms via new version of WebTimmi

Student: Do reservations on Kaisa House group work rooms via new version of WebTimmi!

Login for students works in the new test version. From WebTimmi login page there is a link to the new version (Opiskelija … tästä).

  • Please note this in the new version: Do not double-click the calendar!
    By double-clicking you copy the time to the clipboard and others cannot reserve that time. If so happens, empty the clipboard by clicking the clipboard icon in the right upper corner.
  • If you have any troubles with the system, please ask help from the customer service, or send an email to kirjasto-keskusta (at) helsinki.fi, or call 09 191 23920.

The Learning Centre Aleksandria’s group work rooms are reserved onwards via IT-centre’s online booking system