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City Centre Campus Library operates in 11 offices at Helsinki city centre.
About us - Libraries
City Centre Campus Library serves the researchers, teachers, students and others interested in the humanities and social sciences.
City Centre Campus Library operates in 11 libraries in central Helsinki. Find us - see campus map.
Undergraduate Library has a special role in providing
study materials needed in basic and intermediate studies on the City Campus. The other libraries care for materials mainly in their own subject area.
There are three learning centers in city centre campus area:
- Aleksandria
- Minerva
- Soc&kom
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Art History - Main Building 4th floor
Behavioural Sciences - Minerva
Classical Philology - Main Building 5th floor
Finnish Language, Literary and Art Research - Main Building 3rd floor
History and Cultural Research - Topelia
Linguistics, Philology and Philosophy - Metsätalo
Art History - Main Building 4th floor
Closed - services available September 3rd in the main library in Kaisa House
The library at the 4th floor of Main Building is an art history library.
Main focus is on Finnish art history. Other priorities include Italian art, art outside of Europe, gender studies from the perspective of art history, urban research and art theory and methodology.
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PO Box 3 (Unioninkatu 34, 4th floor)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 23920 (Mon-Fri 10-18)
Behavioural Sciences - Minerva
The main fields of collections of the Library are education, speech sciences, psychology, home economics and craft science. The collections also include literature from other fields, mainly those meeting the needs of teacher education.
PO Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 5 A)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 20600
fax (09) 191 20588
Classical Philology - Main Building 5th floor
Closed - services available September 3rd in the main library in Kaisa House
Classical Philology, Antiquitas is focused on classical philology and modern Greek. Collections are divided in four: Antiquitas graeca, latina, graeca et latina and Hellenica.
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PO Box 3 (Fabianinkatu 33, 5th floor)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 23920 (Mon-Fri 10-18)
Finnish Language, Literary and Art Research - Main Building 3rd floor
Closed - services available September 3rd in the main library in Kaisa House
The library at the 3rd floor of Main Building specializes in language and literature. Collections consist of
aesthetics, film and television research, Finnish literature, Finnish language,
theatre research and comparative literature materials.
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PO Box 3 (Fabianinkatu 33, 3rd floor)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 23920 (Mon-Fri 10-18)
History and Cultural Research - Topelia
Closed - services available September 3rd in the main library in Kaisa House
Topelia-library concentrates on cultural studies and history. The library hosts a wide collection of Asian, African and Pacific research literature.
Topelia
acquires materials from the fields of
e.g. archeology, folkloristics, history, ethnology, development studies, Latin American studies, maritime history, gender studies, North American studies, and Russian and East European Studies.
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PO Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38 C II)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 23920 (Mon-Fri 10-18)
Law
The library serves the staff and students of the Faculty of Law and all the individuals and communities needing legal information.
European Documentation Centre is located at the Law library.
PO Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24 A)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 22003
fax (09) 191 22174
Linguistics, Philology and Philosophy - Metsätalo
Library collections focus on philology, linguistics and philosophy. Main focus is on European languages and philology and general linguistics and philosophy.
PO Box 24 (Unioninkatu 40 B)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 22135, (09) 191 22489
fax (09) 191 22129
Musicology - Vironkatu
Closed - services available September 3rd in the main library in Kaisa House
The Vironkatu Library's focus is on musicology and semiotics. Collections include books, periodicals, theses, sheet music and recordings.
PO Box 35 (Vironkatu 1 B)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 23920 (Mon-Fri 10-18)
Social Sciences
The Library acquires materials from the research areas of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The disciplines covered are economics, social psychology, sociology, social and cultural anthropology and demography, statistics, communications, social history (political history and economic and social history), society policy (social policy and social work) and the general political science.
PO Box 18 (Unioninkatu 35)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. +358-(0)9-191 22547
fax +358-(0)9-191 23788
Theology
The collections of the library are augmented with essential theological literature and source publications, including fields close to theology.
Collections consist of theological literature in the fields of biblical studies, church history, systematic theology, practical theology and science of religion.
PO Box 33 (Aleksanterinkatu 7, 4th floor)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 23870
fax (09) 191 23879
Undergraduate Library
The Undergraduate Library provides study materials needed in basic and intermediate studies on the City Campus of the University of Helsinki and has concluded a service agreement with the Open University.
PO Box 53 (Fabianinkatu 32)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. (09) 191 23920 (Mon-Fri 10-18)