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Finnish Public Libraries in 2014 NAPLE Assembly Athens , May 13, 2014 Leena Aaltonen, Counsellor for Cultural Affairs. Finnish Public Libraries in 2014 . Municipality reform R eorganisation of the regional library network Library Act reform current Library Act dates from 1998 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Finnish Public Libraries in 2014NAPLE AssemblyAthens, May 13, 2014Leena Aaltonen,Counsellor for Cultural Affairs
Finnish Public Libraries in 2014
• Municipality reform• Reorganisation of the regional library network• Library Act reform
• current Library Act dates from 1998• new act will come into force on the 1st of January 2016
• Impact evaluation of the library development projects funded by the ministry of education and culture is starting later this year
• Public interface FINNA (National Digital Library project) http://www.kdk.fi/en/public-interface
• public libraries will join Finna gradually
Finnish public libraries in 2013Some figures
http://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/en-GB/
• Libraries 815. Main Libraries 291Mobile libraries 148. One library boat
• Collection: 38 mill. (of which books 34 mill.)• Person years: 4 183• Visits/inhabitant: 9,5 (total 51 mill.)• Virtual visits: 53 mill. visits on library web-services• Lending/inhabitant: 17,2 (total 93 mill.)• Costs/inhabitant: 59 euros• Population: 5,4 mill.
The Helsinki Central Library project
- Official jubilee project of the Finnish independence (2017)
- Special state funding- Located at the most visible
and central site in Helsinki- Library ideology highly
valued by decision makers- Living room and center for
civic activities- Designed by the Finnish
ALA architects
- Opening 2018