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Turku University Library collections mainly consist of the Main Library’s Finnish collection Fennica, international collection Genera and Course Book Library’s collection, and of the field-specific collections in five faculty libraries. The library’s collections are, after Helsinki University Library, one of the largest in Finland. Altogether there are approximately 2.800.000 copies including electronic resources in the library.
The Fennica collection includes basically all printed matter published in or for Finland, altogether 22 kilometers in shelves.
The Main Library's open-shelf collection is a general collection, which mainly consists of foreign literature, but also includes some Finnish literature. Acquisitions to the collection have been made since 2007. The main emphasis is on the interdisciplinary and general sciences and on humanities and social science.
Most of the new material in Genera collection belongs mainly to humanistic and social sciences. There is a lot of older material which originates from the donations during the first decades of the library.
Discpiline-specific libraries, which are today five, were founded from 1940s to the 1970s to provide services to the research and teaching of the faculties.
In addition to printed material, there are also numerous electronic resources in the library.
Information on the library’s printed material is searchable via the Volter database. Material which is not in the database can be found in the library’s card files or you can ask the staff. Electronic resources are searchable via Nelli portal and partly also via the Volter database.
The library’s printed material can be used as home or reading room loans apart from some exceptions. Part of the material is protected with certain lending and usage limitations. Detailed information about different lending practices can be found under the heading Loan periods.