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2014ANNUAL REPORT

2 THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FINLAND 2014

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2014

Minister Max Jakobson’s library was donated to the National Library. “This is an interesting

collection and I’m very happy that all Finns can access it in the future.” (Linda Jakobson,

Max Jakobson’s daughter).

The National Library and Otavamedia Oy concluded an agreement regarding the

digitisation of Suomen Kuvalehti magazines published in the 1900s; the agreement covers the years 1945–2001. Previously

digitised issues published during the period 1906–1944 can be read at the NationalLibrary. The Otava Book Foundation is

supporting the digitisation project.

Peter von Bagh donated his unique private collection of

film literature to the National Library. The materials willbe available for customer

use in 2016.

The Digitalkoot tool lets youselect press clippings from digitised

resources. Try, collect, and share your materials in social media.

Step right in at the addressdigi.kansalliskirjasto.fi to access

9 million pages of digital resources.

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National Library Director Kai Ekholm was appointedChair of the Conference of Directors of National

Libraries (CDNL); Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen,Function Director of Library Network Services,

was elected President of the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER).

Classics of Finnish fiction arefreely available at the address

klassikkokirjasto.kansalliskirjasto.fi. Approximately 600 works can

currently be accessed from theservice, which will be expanded

during the coming years.

The National Library’s renovation was chosen as “Building Site of the Year 2014”. The selection was made by a jury of experts invited by Rakennuslehti (“Building Magazine”). The conservation-oriented

repair project will be completed at the end of 2015.

A valuable collection of scores and parts used by the Hotelli Kämp’s salon orchestras was

donated to the National Library. The collection of sheet music is available for customers’ use on the National Library’s premises.

Finna’s 1-year anniversary was celebrated in December. The Finna service brings together the resources of archives, libraries, and museums for the first time. By the end of the year the service contained approximately 9 million references.

85 organisations are already using Finna. finna.fi

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2 Highlights from 2014

6 Director’s review

8 National treasures for all 9 Finna - for seekers of information and inspiration

10 A million pages of the cultural heritage online per year

16 Growing significance of metadata and standards

18 Stakeholder groups and community relations 18 International cooperation

20 National cooperation

21 Fundraising and friendship activities

22 Communications and cultural services

24 The National Library of Finland’s core duties 25 The National Library – recorder and disseminator of the published national heritage

29 The National Library – supporting the academic community

30 The National Library – builder of the National Digital Library

34 Donations

36 Resources and finance

40 Board and other administrative bodies

41 Cooperative interaction

43 Contact information


VISIONNational treasures for all.

MISSION STATEMENTBesides securing the availability of the published national heritage for

the community, the National Library produces and disseminates informationcontent for citizens and society, and develops services jointly with the library

network and other players in the information society.

VALUES• We are professionals and we develop.

• We work together.• We act openly and reliably.

• Our national heritage is always present.• We promote access to information.

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DIRECTOR’S REVIEW

Libraries make solutions for the future

The Finnish library system is recognised as a success factor worldwide. We are invited to participate in international projects and even appointed to leadership positions. Finnish common sense and our cooperative skills are trusted. Many of us working an extra day in international projects usually receive more than it is possible to give.

The Digibarometri 2014 report describing our society’s electronic preparedness was published a year ago. Digibarometri’s main message was that, despite favourable prerequisites, industry and the public sector continued their downhill slides. The com-puter game company Supercell was a delightful exception. The always outspoken Kalle Isokallio quipped that know-how would run out before money in this country. First you have to know what to do, then do it. Economic stability and well-being will follow. A sound principle. Currently no one quite knows how to put Finland back in the game, but a sense of proportion and positive outlook will certainly help, and many companies have already succeeded with solution-oriented business operations.

Successful Finnish firms implementing solution-based operations help others to move forward. Can this be applied to library operations? Yes, it can. Indeed, without fanfare, this is what we have already been doing for years. Solution-based business operations relate to the satisfaction of customer’s needs, the detection of solutions for materials’ transmission chain, and tailored applications. Rather close to our ac-complishments at the National Library during the year.

We safeguard the interests of our customers. With the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture, significant infra-level solutions have been generated at the National Library in recent years. We have created Finna, a digital service environment integrating society, and Finto, an extensive ontology service. Working closely with the scientific community, we launched new and creative digital humanities research. Its applicability to digital humanism was one of the work year’s most inspiring elements. Even under difficult economic conditions we have continuously aimed at open infor-

mation solutions, digitised national content, and created new ways to process these resources. So yes, you can certainly call these solution-based operations.

The National Library’s spearhead projects prominently featured in this Annual Re-port – digital content and services, the National Metadata Repository, research coop-eration, as well as fundraising and friendship activities – represent solution-oriented business operations that benefit citizens. The year 2014 was also significant as a result of several donations by our contemporaries; the collections of Peter von Bagh, Jukka Kemppinen, and Max Jakobson are magnificent additions to the National Collection.

Success is a magnet inviting participation. We have once again received significant support for our projects from many organisations. As Director of the National Library I would like to warmly thank our sponsors and partners, the library network, the Uni-versity of Helsinki, the Mikkeli economic area, as well as our hard-working employees who have performed flexibly and gone above and beyond the call of duty.

We have experienced a transitional year replete with many challenges. At the same time it has given us an excellent opportunity to rethink concepts and strategies, and use the pause to our advantage. When the National Library’s Engel-designed building is opened to the public in early 2016, we will be presenting a rejuvenated National Library, updated service concept, plenty of new content, and an enhanced sense of communality. It is gratifying to notice how much they have been missed.

Kai Ekholm, Director

In August, Kai Ekholm was named Chair of the Conference ofDirectors of National Libraries (CDNL).

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Finna’s 1-year anniversarywas celebrated on3 December 2014.

“The Martha Organization has an over 100-year history. Accessing Finna opened a completely new and multifaceted archive that reveals our association’s day-to-day operations. Scanning this tradition-themed window is genuinely fascinating,” explains the Martha Organization’s Executive Director Marianne Heikkilä.

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Digitalisation is changing the ways in which researchers, students, and other information seekers use data. The National Library is rising to this challenge. Digitisation facilitates the dissemination of the National Library’s treasures – its resources and collections – for wide-ranging customer use. Through the national Finna information search service, the availability of resources from Finnish archives, li-braries, and museums is improving every day.

Finna - for seekers ofinformation and inspiration Finna is an integrated common online search service that brings together the collections of Finnish archives, librar-ies, museums, and other memory organisations for the first time. By the end of the year, Finna contained approximately 9 million searchable items, a million more than in 2013. Finna has been designed cooperatively with Finnish libraries, archives, and museums, and the National Library has overseen its development work. Finna’s technical im-plementation has utilised an open source code that facilitates wide-ranging do-mestic and international cooperation re-garding the development of its customer interface.

Finna users at the forefront Usability has been emphasised in Finna’s design, implementation, and assessment. During the year under review, particular developmental emphasis was placed on search functions, logins, and accessibility. Users now also have the opportunity distribute their own favourite

lists and comments.Finna’s use was tracked during the year with statistics

and a user survey to which over 3,000 Finna users re-sponded. The results demonstrated that Finna has been well received; almost 90% of the respondents consid-ered the Finna service beneficial, and almost 75% con-

sidered it user-friendly. Another study conducted at the end of the year focused on Finna’s applica-

bility to the needs of researchers in differ-ent fields. The materials obtained from the

questionnaire will be used as a guide for Finna’s further development.

Welcome to Finna Currently Finna has 85 organisations and

the next 14 are in production. New organ-isations are accepted at half-year intervals.

According to estimates, most institutes of higher learning will begin to use Finna during 2015.

The first Finna interface for public libraries was opened for test use by personnel at the Turku region’s Vaski libraries in late November. The ongoing develop-ment work will also eventually enable public libraries to

have their own most important online services config-ured on Finna.

A Finna Day organised in December brought together the participating organisations, stakeholder groups, and the Finna service’s users. Several organisations in Finna participated in the planning of the day’s events, which included the launching of the Finna Facebook page, tar-geted particularly at Finna users, that attracted hundreds of followers within a short time.

National treasures for allSPEARHEAD PROJECTS IN 2014

Thanks to the Finna service, the public can

now access a huge quantity of freelyavailable cultural

resources througha single user

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A million pages of the cultural heritage online per yearDigitisation facilitates the provision of the National Li-brary’s resources and collections for wide-ranging cus-tomer use. In 2014, almost a million text pages were digitised at the National Library and approximately 1.2 million pages were made available for customer use.

Customers can access digitised newspapers, maga-zines, and ephemera through the digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi service. Copyrighted materials can be accessed at the National Library and other legal deposit libraries. The service is being developed continuously and the pages can now be accessed on tablets. Schools have also be-gun to enthusiastically utilise the service, which is being used intensively in Finland and abroad (12% of users).

Finland’s first Professor of Research into Digital In-formation Timo Honkela began his tenure in January 2014. The Professor will work in the University of Hel-sinki’s Faculty of Arts and the National Library’s Centre for Preservation and Digitisation in Mikkeli. The goal is to promote humanistic research and the usability of digi-tised resources with automated technological solutions. The project has featured extensive cooperation between the National Library, the University of Helsinki, Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences, Mikkeli University Con-sortium, and the City of Mikkeli. During its first opera-tion year, the research group has for example promoted the use of digitised periodical materials as research data. The fixed-term professorship is for the period 1 January 2014 – 31 December 2017.

• At the end of the year there were a total of 8.8 million pages in the digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi service.

• In 2014, approximately 10.7 million searches were conducted for digi-tised material, a 5% increase com-pared to the previous year.

The National Library is expanding its digital resources’ utilisation possibilities by bringing historical travel advertisements to tablets. The materials can be found on Biblioboard’s Exploring History tablet application that can be downloaded through iTunes.

digi.kansalliskirjasto.fiservice, late 2014

• magazines 5.4 million pages• newspapers 3.2 million pages

• ephemera 129,400 pages


Digitalkootis the digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi website’s new tool that fa-cilitates the extraction of press clippings from digitised materials. Try, collect, and share your materials in social media. The service was launched in May, after which almost 10,000 clipping have been made.

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Newspapers are among the most intensively uti-lised resources in the FENNICA database. Uncopyright-ed newspapers are freely available for customer use through digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi, but copyrighted news-papers cannot be provided digitally for free use.

During the year under review, the National Library, Kopiosto, newspaper publishing houses, and the Finn-ish Newspapers Association continued cooperating in a project, funded by the Communications Research Foundation, whose purpose is to convert copyrighted 1900s newspaper materials to digital form and facilitate their wider use.

The electronic reception process developed for newspapers in the Comellus project was completed in May. The process covers the materials’ transmis-sion from its reception to its transfer for customer use. Newspapers are also microfilmed for long-term preservation. The European Social Fund, (Leverage from the EU), the South Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport, and the Environment, the City of Mikkeli, the National Library of Finland, and two pilot media houses are funding the project.

In the Fenno-Ugrica online collection, digitisation is providing the research commu-nity with access to previously unexamined mate-

rials printed in Uralic languages. Most of the mate-rials belong to the National Library of Russia’s

collections. During the year under review, the online collection was augmented with 1,100 monograph titles; 100 newspaper titles from the collection of the National Library of Russia were also published in early 2015.

The so-called OCR editor, a research tool that facilitates the editing of text mate-

rials recorded in electronic form, is also being developed for researchers.

“Reading newspapersis a free society’s

basic right. Preserve itfrom one generation

to the other.”

Professor Mikko Viitasalo

The National Library’s second system for digitised resourc-es Doria (doria.fi) offers a significant quantity of digitised materials such as, for example, Nordenskiöld’s map collec-tion, parchments, the Turku Academy’s doctoral disserta-tions, and Urho Kekkonen’s published output.

During the year Doria’s use intensified, registering 1,315,285 page downloads (786,519 in 2013).

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The University of Helsinki’s Ruralia Institute uses digitised his-torical newspapers in its research related to rural society.

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Fenno-Ugrica was marketed effectively, particularly in the Russian language, and the use of the collections skyrock-eted from approximately 700 downloads to over 9,000 downloads per month. The collections can be considered as being used worldwide; currently there are users from al-most 70 different countries. Financed by the Kone Foun-dation, the Digitization Project of Kindred Languages is a two-year project whose partners are the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg), other libraries in Russia, as well as researchers in Fenno-Ugric languages at the Universities of Helsinki and Turku.

A book history project was launched under the auspices of the Liisa Santala Foundation. The mate-rials to be digitised have been se-lected, but the digitisation itself will be carried out in 2015. Besides the digitised resources, an online publi-cation of the book history research will be produced.

Produced and maintained by the University of Helsinki, National Library, and Helsinki University Library, the Finnish Classics Library is a freely-accessible digital library. The Finn-ish Classics Library is a comprehensive and source-crit-ical entity containing Finnish- and Swedish-language fiction as well related research information. So far, ap-proximately 600 works have been published in online

services. Professor Jyrki Nummi is leading the project. klassikkokirjasto.kansalliskirjasto.fi/

In December, the National Library made over 450 data records from domestic music archives accessible online. Customers can access the materials’ information through the Finna and Viola customer interfaces.

The collections contain the archives of numerous Finnish composers – from Pacius and Sibelius to pres-

ent-day composers. Besides music manuscripts, the collection also includes other archived

composer-related materials such as dia-ries and correspondence. The archives

offer superb source materials for musicologists and performers. The project has been implemented with funding from the Anu Karessuo pri-vate equity fund, part of the National Library’s Cultural Heritage Fund.

Blossoming of cartographic col-lections – Nytt liv i gamla herrgards-

samlingar began in 2010 as a coopera-tive project between the House of Nobility,

National Library, National Archives, Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS), and the Åbo Akademi

University Library. Customers can access the information, assembled by mapping the contents of public and private estates’ archives, at the Herrgardar database maintained by the SLS, the project’s coordinator.

The National Library’s incunabula collections contain slightly more than 400 printed works produced before the year 1501. The collections are internationally significant and include several rarities as well as works offering a fascinating glimpse into Finnish book history. To serve as a basis for future research, an index complying with inter-national scientific criteria was prepared for the incunabula collections. The index can be accessed by customers at the University of Helsinki’s online database (HELKA).

The use offennougrica.kansalliskirjasto.fi

skyrocketed from approximately700 downloads to over

9,000 downloadsper month.


The accessibility of the internationally significant A.E. Nordenskiöld map collection, one of the National Library’s treasures, was developed during the year under review. The Doria Publication Archive now offers 537 of the collection’s maps for unrestricted use.

The digitisation and cataloguing of the Turku Academy’s doctoral disser-tations continued with the support of the Ilkka and Ulla Paatero Fund. The first 1,778 dissertations, published during the period 1642–1828, have already been posted in the Doria pub-

lication database. During the second stage of the project that began in the autumn of 2012, the remaining ap-proximately 2,700 doctoral disserta-tions comprising about 72,000 pages will be digitised. The materials will be posted for customer use in 2015.


Growing significance ofmetadata and standardsThe development of descriptive metadata, particularly the support of Finnish libraries’ metadata work, is one of the National Library’s top priorities. The Library’s metadata work is becoming increasingly intertwined with devel-opment and training responsibilities related to the library sector’s standards, as well as participation in the develop-ment of international identifier systems.

Development areas in public administration-related metadata services include the systems’ interoperability, the flow of information among organisations, and the adoption of common operational methods. The National Library is playing a key role as coordinator.

Finto, a national thesaurus and ontology service maintained by the National Library, is being developed in the ONKI project jointly funded by the Ministry of Education and Cul-ture, as well as the Ministry of Finance.

Content related to the Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) is also being developed in the project. During the

year under review, the development of Finto’s speed and usability continued and the service gained a new visual appearance.

The Finto service is an important step towards linked data that for its part improves the usability of data in content descriptions. For thesaurus research-ers, Finto creates a solid platform that can be used as the foundation for long-term development work. The concentrated ontology service and its uniform pub-lication practices are convenient for content describers and application de-velopers.

Melinda isthe National Meta -

- data Repository and service provided to librar-ies that assembles descriptive metadata in a single location. Common practices and operational methods im-prove the quality of metadata, which in turn enhances the metadata’s interoperability. Carrying out the work with a common metadata repository also facilitates the sharing of libraries’ description work and its related expertise.

In 2014 the production of the National Bibliography was transferred in its entirety to Melinda.

RDA (Resource Description and Access) is a new de-scription standard for library resources that the National

Library is preparing to adopt in Finland. The transition will take place gradually beginning in 2015, but

the changeover phase in the entire Finnish library sector will continue until the 2020s.

The adoption of the international RDA specification will facilitate the utilisation of Finnish library-related metadata in oth-er countries as well as outside the library sector.

The first stage of the transition involved the translation and editing of the interna-

tional RDA norms to suit Finnish conditions, and a Finnish translation of the descriptive rules

was completed in 2014. Establishing the rules in Finland will require close cooperation the library sector’s experts. Enhancing the efficiency of metadata production to en-courage cooperation among domestic memory organi-sations is another objective.

In Melinda,the objective is that an

item of material willonly be describedin Finland once.


Stakeholder groupsand community relationsInternationality is an important part of the development of the National Library’s operations and ser-vices, as well as a prerequisite for the attainment of its strategic goals. The Library’s experts are prom-inently involved in the operations of various cooperative groups and development communities.

Cooperation at the national level is carried out with, for example, the library network and other mem-ory organisations. Research cooperation promotes the Library, its services, and studies related to Fin-land’s national heritage resources. Besides supporting the National Library’s work and collections, fundraising and friendship activities generate new partnerships.

International cooperationNational libraries are effectively networked worldwide (CDNL) and throughout Europe (CENL). The National Li-brary actively participates in these organisations’ under-takings, and National Library Director Kai Ekholm was ap-pointed Chair of the CDNL for the term 2014–2016.

The Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) is a forum where Finnish library service development proj-ects and their results can be presented to European col-leagues. Function Director of the National Library’s Library Network Services Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen was elected President of LIBER for the term 2014–2016.

The National Library and the Helsinki University Library will host the LIBER conference that will be held in Helsinki in the summer of 2016. Planning work for the conference began in the autumn.

The National Library is represented in six divisions of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions IFLA. A representative of the National Library is currently the Chairman of IFLA’s Newspaper Section.

The EU Commission-directed MSEG (Member States

Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation) is a high-level expert group in which the National Library’s Centre for Preservation and Digitisation is Finland’s sec-ond expert member.

Europeana is a European joint venture aimed at the development of a pan-European portal that will enhance the availability and recognition of resources in libraries, archives, and museums. The National Library transmits national digitised materials to Europeana and the World Digital Library.

The National Library operates actively in the interna-tional communities developing open source codes and metadata. Besides taking part in international cooperative networks related to statistics and digitisation, the Library also participates in the promotion of libraries’ and other memory organisations’ copyright policies. The objective of such international cooperation is to ensure the inter-national commensurability of the library network’s and Finnish memory organisations’ solutions.

Since 2012, the National Library has served on the ed-itorial board of the Scandinavian Library Quarterly. Pub-

lished since 1968, the magazine covering the northern countries’ library field is also the voice of Scandinavian scientific libraries in the international library sector.

Held in early June in Helsinki, the international Open Repositories 2014 conference focusing on open publish-ing was attended by 470 experts from all over the world.

Function Director of the National Library’s Library Network Services Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen was elected President of the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER).


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National Library Director Kai Ekholm was appointed Chair of the worldwide Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL).

International Conference on Open Repositories in Helsinki, summer 2014.

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For five days, 160 presentations, panel discussions, or workshops were offered to the participants. The con-ference was received extremely well by the international community.

National cooperationCooperation and dialogue with the library sector and oth-er memory organisations are a prerequisite for the de-velopment of the National Library’s services. In 2014, the National Library arranged, independently or jointly with its partners, over 50 events oriented towards the library sec-tor and other customer organisations. Over 230 persons participated in the Kirjastoverkkopäivät (“Library Network Days”) held in October 2014.

The Ministry of Education and Culture launched the Open Science and Research initiative (ATT) for the peri-od 2014–2017. The project target is to make Finland the leading country in the openness of science and research. An additional objective is to promote the trustworthiness of science and research and support the culture of open science in the research community. The National Library actively participates in the project and as a library expert has representatives in the strategic group and several working groups.

The National Library directs the operations of the Finnish Standards Association, Technical Committee 115. The committee participates in the development of domestic as well as international standards.

Liisa Savolainen, Function Director of the National Li-

brary’s Research Library, is a member of UNESCO’s Fin-land - Memory of the World National Committee and was appointed by the Ministry of Education and Culture to serve in the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage working group.

The National Library is an active partner in digitisation and preservation development areas in South Savo, and the provincial and regional strategies of South Savo and Mikkeli, as well as the Mikkeli University Consortium, have designated digitisation activities as an emphasis area. Re-gional cooperation is overseen by the Digitalmikkeli Con-sortium, where an overall digitisation and electronic ar-chiving entity is being developed.

Cooperation among schools and the research com-munity serves the development of the National Library’s services as well as the interests of students and educa-tional institutions. The Library actively provides timely research themes based on its resources and services to students and researchers in various fields.

In 2014, cooperation among schools and the research community brought with it new partners and scientific disciplines. Cooperation was particularly active in the Fin-na project.

The Jean Sibelius Works project is publishing Sibel-ius’s oeuvre in its entirety with research-based editing. By the end of 2014, a total of 24 volumes had been pub-lished. Besides the National Library, the project’s publish-ers are the Sibelius Society and the German publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel.

Online Library Dayin October.

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During the year under review, two volumes were published in the project: two versions of a violin concer-to (JSW II/1), as well the fourth volume of piano works (JSW V/4). Sibelius’s piano compositions have thus been published in their entirety in the series of collected works.

Working jointly with the National Museum of Finland, the National Archives, and Ainola, the National Library is preparing an exhibition celebrating Jean Sibelius’s anni-versary year 2015 that will open in October 2015 at the National Museum.

You can also participate in the support the National Library’s activitiesFundraising and friendship activities in 2014 focused on the planning and preparation for the Finland 100 cam-paign. During the period 2015–2018, the National Li-brary’s objective will be to implement an online library with materials related to Finland’s history. In 2014, prepa-rations were made for a fundraising campaign targeted at the online library’s implementation. President Sauli

The National Library’sFinland 100 programme In connection with the celebrations of Finland’s 100th year of independence, the National Library is launching an online library with materials relat-ed to Finland’s history. Assembled in 2015–2018; the online library project will utilise the National Library’s unique collections to create a compre-hensive, inspiring, and interactive service for all citizens.

Fundraising began in 2014, and the Nation-al Library received a fundraising license from the National Police Board to conduct a public campaign during the period 1 January 2015–31 December 2019.

The fundraising campaign “Our Century Online” was launched in 2014 with the mapping of partners and donors. The campaign will be expanded in 2016.

Private Equity Funds

Ilkka and Ulla Paatero FundAs part of a project that began in the autumn of 2012, the digitisation of approximately 2,700 doctoral dissertations from the Turku Academy continued. The materials will be posted for customer use in 2015.

Anu Karessuo FundThe music archives cataloguing project implemented with the fund’s support concluded in October 2014. In Decem-ber, the National Library opened over 450 data records from domestic music archives for customer use in the Finna and Viola services.

Liisa Santala FundA planned book history project began during the year un-der review. The materials to be digitised were selected and the digitising work will begin in 2015. Besides digitised resources, an online publication on book history will be produced.

In December, the National Library made over 450 data records from domestic music archives accessible online. At a briefing and launch event held the end of the year, previously unknown musical compositions discovered as the archiving work progressed were heard for the first time.

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Niinistö and his wife promised to act as the patrons of the Our Century Online electronic library. The National Library’s Friends, Doctor of Social Sciences Sinikka Salo, Professor Mikko Viitasalo, as well as the author and pub-lisher Kai Linnilä, actively supported the Library’s fund-raising activities. The Save a Book campaign, the Cultural Heritage Fund of the National Library of Finland’s first campaign, concluded in May. The results of the program can be found at the Treasures of the National Library in Doria, Finnish Maps, and Literature Bank websites, as well as among periodicals and ephemera.

Communications andcultural event servicesIn 2014, four theme issues of the Finnish-language Kan-salliskirjasto magazine were published in a print run of approximately 2,000 copies. The online English-lan-

guage Bulletin, aimed at the National Library’s interna-tional partners, was published in August to coincide with the IFLA Conference. The Library also launched Raport-teja ja selvityksiä (“Reports and Studies”) a new online series publishing projects’ final reports, use studies, and other clarifications.

As previously, the National Library of Finland’s Annu-al Report provided an overview of the year’s events and appeared as a Finnish-language print version, as well as online English and Swedish-language pdf files. A news-letter for the library network and other customer organ-isations was posted quarterly, and the online Tietolinja magazine for professionals in the library and information service sectors was published in June and December.

During the year, Peter von Bagh’s donation of his film literature collection to the National Library clearly at-tracted the most media attention. The National Library’s

In April a seminar for invited guests was organized in connection with the Brummeriana collection of children’s literature. Also taking place at the same event was the release of collection expert Marjut Hjelt’s book Lapsuuden sadut ja seikkailut (“Childhood Stories and Adventures”), published by Into Kustannus and based on the Brummeriana resources. Brummeriana is an internationally significant collection of children’s literature containing over 20,000 titles dating from the 1500s to the present day. The National Library acquired the collection from its owner, Professor Markus Brummer-Korvenkontio, in the early 1990s.

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In the autumn the National Library awarded its now traditional Customer of the Year prize to Tomi Huttunen, Professor in Russian Literature and Culture at the Universi-ty of Helsinki. Huttunen has long been an active customer of the National Library. In his current professorial work he has aimed at conveying his interests in literature, reading, and books to students in his own field.

website kansalliskirjasto.fi and its language versions regis-tered a total of 1,050,406 page views; the total quantity of website visits was 390,991.

In 2014, the Library’s website renewal project concen-trated on the structure of the site’s service objectives and the specification of functionalities. The Library’s updated website will be launched in 2015.

Although the National Library’s renovation project precluded the organisation of exhibitions and other cul-tural events on its premises, an exhibition plan for the pe-riod 2015–2017 was formulated during the year.

Materials from the National Library’s collections were also displayed in exhibitions mounted by domestic and foreign cultural institutions. Rare books dating from the 1500s and 1600s, selected from the National Library’s his-torical collections, were on view at the National Library of Latvia’s Ex Bibliotheca Ducis Curlandiae exhibition in June 2014.

The Finnish National Gallery’s Tove Jansson anni-versary exhibition borrowed no less than 59 works from the National Library’s collections, including first printings of Moomintroll books, comic strip albums, and picture books. Similarly, materials loaned from the National Li-brary – concert programmes, posters, sheet music, let-ters, and record covers – were displayed at the Ateneum Museum’s Sibelius and the World of Art exhibition.

The National Library loaned the works of Helena Wes-termarck for the Artistic Companionship - Helene Schjer-fbeck, Ada Thilén, Helena Westermarck, and Maria Wiik exhibition held at the Hämeenlinna Art Museum. Several works from the National Library’s collections were also on view at the National Archive’s Pro Finlandia, Finland’s Road to Independence exhibition.

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The National Library of Finland’s core duties

The National Library, recorderand disseminator of the publishednational heritageIn cooperation with the publishing sector, the National Li-brary of Finland deposits and describes domestic publication production according to the Act on the Deposit and Preser-vation of Cultural Material (1433/2007). The National Library deposits printed products and recordings comprehensively; online materials available to the public are recorded as ele-gantly and diversely as possible. The resources are described for national databases and organised into collections for customer use. Online resources can be accessed at the Na-tional Library and other legal deposit libraries.

The mapping of the Finnish public administration’s online publications and their metadata began in 2014. Deposits of e-monographs from the larger commercial operators also continued. The online archiving of Finnish materials contin-ued and thematic collections related to the European Parlia-ment elections and music were implemented.

Website updates enhanced the efficiency of legal deposit activity-related communications. The Legal Deposit Office also configured its own Facebook profile for current com-munications.

Preliminary discussions were conducted with directors of legal deposit libraries as well as representatives of the Min-istry of Education and Culture regarding the necessity of re-newing the Act on the Deposit and Preservation of Cultural Material. Preparations for a statute amending the law were scheduled for 2015. Accrued legal deposit copies in 2014

Accrual of legal deposit copies: titles

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Shelf metres (all materials) 476 424 421 384 403 426 388

Analogue materialsBooks 15 120 13 851 13 456 12 738 12 520 12 640 10 644

Maps 765 580 1 125 795 570 637 548

Sheet music 300 285 229 243 232 446 318

Ephemera 57 586 58 233 50 248 60 703 51 656 64 600 61 100

Annual reports 2 102 1 768 1 690 1 750 1 323 1 156 1 297

Posters 2 289 2 182 2 660 4 107 4 929 4 150 2 171

Music recordings 3 025 2 838 2 893 2 461 2 585 3 429 2 751

Speech recordings 540 567 916 646 522 595 472

Other AV materials 106 63 32 45 77 65 23

Magazines 5 444 5 382 4 945 4 867 4 763 4 594 4 403

Newspapers 363 353 353 344 335 324 320

Other series 1 001 1 020 972 649 620 444 430

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Deposited online publications 260 420 379 2177 24 312 29 789 20 565

• online books 1 646 5 563 8 638

• online music 22 666 201 32

• online periodicals 24 025 11 895

Harvesting, files 61 milj. 150 milj. 198 milj. 224 milj. 172 milj. 202 milj. 143 milj.

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National databasesThe National Library describes Finnish publications and sound recordings for the National Bibliography, maintains the Finnish General Thesaurus (YSA), and carries out work related to community and name authorities* for the National Bibliography and National Discography.

During the year under review, 16,200 monographs were described for the National Bibliography Fennica and by the end of 2014 the total quantity of data records was 0.96 mil-lion. A total of 4,200 person and community names were authorised in publications described in the National Bibliog-raphy; 790 new descriptors were approved for the Finnish General Thesaurus (YSA).

In 2014, 36,708 new bibliographic data records were recorded in the National Discography Viola. Slightly over 37,000 data records not belonging to the Sibelius Academy’s national discography were deleted from Viola. At the end of 2014, the total quantity of Viola’s bibliographic data records was 1.04 million.

Complying with the Act on the Deposit and Preserva-tion of Cultural Material, a descriptive process for donated monographs appearing online was completed during the year under review, and a total of 2,000 titles were described. More systematic and established methods were also devel-oped to describe the description of online music materials.

Digitisation and conservationBefore its transfer to customer use, materials are often digitised and/or microfilmed, and also conserved when necessary. Digitisation facilitates the availability of the National Library’s resources and collections for extensive customer use.

Digitisation in 2014 concentrated on the produc-tion of an extensive corpus, particularly periodicals and books. By the end of the year, approximately 80% of the National Library’s collection of general periodicals pub-lished during the period 1810–1944 had been digitised, an approximately 10% increase compared to the equivalent period in 2013. Of the periodicals, approximately 19% are freely available online; the equivalent figure for newspa-pers is approximately 60%.

The rescue digitising of C-cassettes also continued; approximately 1,500 cassettes and 170 tape reels were converted to digital formats.

One of the year 2014’s emphasis areas in conservation work focused on the Turku University doctoral disserta-tions awaiting digitising. The objective of the conserva-tion was to restore the dissertations to a condition that would facilitate a digital record of the highest possible quality while ensuring that the materials would be able to withstand the digitisation-related stresses and survive into the future.

Other conservation projects included the Topelius Collection and the Slavonic Library’s Futuristi Collection. During the year under review, a total of almost 11,000 pages from the Manuscript Collection and over 6,700 ephemera pages also required conservation work.

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The 19.4% decrease in the national databases’ search usage indicates that information retrieval is gradually shifting to the Finna service. The role of the national databases as a descrip-tive environment is becoming increasingly emphasised.

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• The national databases (Arto, Fenni-ca, Melinda, Viola) contained appro-ximately 10.5 million data records by the end of 2014.

• Containing approximately 6.9 million data records, the libraries’ common database Melinda registered the st-rongest growth (7.1%) in 2014.

• Information searches through the Finna service are becoming increa-singly common.

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The National Library,supporting the academic community Supporting research and teaching is one of the National Library’s most important core duties. The Library ac-quires new scientific materials, printed and electronic books, series, periodicals, and databases. A collection policy and procurement plan guides the acquisitions; new electronic resources are implemented jointly with the Helsinki University Library, and the materials are posted for use in the University of Helsinki’s online en-vironment.

In 2014, a total of EUR 668,000 was spent to acquire new scientific materials. The operational funding allo-cated for resource acquisitions increased by 17% over the previous year. The total number of monographs ac-quired was 9,500 volumes, a 12% decrease compared to 2013.

Analogue materials accounted for 75%* of acqui-sitions. The percentage of electronic materials con-tinues to grow steadily; 90% of acquisitions were still analogue in 2009. The change has specifically resulted from magazines switching to electronic editions. In hu-manities research, the printed monograph continues to be the preferred form for scientific publication, a trend also visible in the National Library’s acquisitions. The Li-brary also offered a few new electronic book packages, primarily for experimental purposes. Procurements also attempted to take a broad range of languages into ac-count according to customers’ preferences.

Library visitorsAs a result of the renovation of the National Library’s main building that began in the summer of 2013, library services were moved to the part of the library building facing Fabianinkatu. The National Library has continued

*A magazine is calculated as electronic, even when a paper version is also published.

Like the previous year, the Humanistic Research Collection is the most intensively utilised. The National Collection and Slavonic Library are also used actively, while microfilm usage has decreased slightly.

Use of collections in 2014

Humanistic Research Collection 55%Fennica Collection 13%Slavonic Library 14%Microfilms 7%Rare books and manuscripts 7%Sheet music and recordings 4%

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to serve its customers during the entire duration of the renovation project, but library visits decreased to a certain extent. The use of reading places also decreased as a re-sult of the repair project. The renovated library will open its doors to the public in early 2016.

During 2014, 399,000 loans were registered, 8% less than the previous year. For its part, the quantity of reading room loans has remained steady over the years, indicating that the National Library’s unique collections are actively utilised as source materials for research.

Despite the drop in library visits, the number of infor-mation service tasks remained at the previous years’ level. As in earlier years, most information services were pro-vided for the Slavonic Library and Manuscript Collection.

The National Library– builder of the National Digital LibraryDevelopment projects related to the Library’s general

services (Finna, Melinda, Arto, and Finto) were important operational emphasis areas in 2014. The National Library regularly monitors its customer organisations’ degree of satisfaction with the services it provides. The bienni-al service questionnaire conducted in the spring of 2014 revealed that satisfaction with the Library’s services has increased. On a scale of 1-4, the QOS received a rating of 3.1 (2.9 in 2012). Based on the feedback received from customer organisations, the National Library’s strengths include its professional skills and its innovative develop-ment of services. Development areas are customer co-operation, Finna, and the libraries’ common database Me-linda.

Online resource acquisitionsFinELib is a consortium of Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutes, and public librar-ies whose task is to safeguard and improve the availability

of electronic resources. The FinELib Consortium acquires electronic materials for the consortium members’ em-ployees, students, and library customers. The consortium’s service unit operates in the National Library, and FinELib’s steering group governs FinELib’s activities.

A two-year e-course book project launched in 2014 proved beneficial by presenting models for the provision of Finnish e-course books. The acquisition of materials was also expanded to include a larger group of adults and stu-dents pursuing further education. Promoting the publica-tions’ open availability is another objective.

The total quantity of articles downloaded from FinELib materials was 22.6 million in 2014 (24.9 million in 2013).

The percentage of electronic materials compared to total acquisitions by institutes of higher learning has in-creased from 40% to 75% in 10 years.

Book acquisitionsby scientific discipline 2014 (385,000 €)

History 39%Linguistics and literature 16%Russian and East European research 12%Ancient studies 11%Philosophy 8%Other 8%Art history 4%Musicology 2%

Resourceacquisitions 2014 (668 00 €)

Books 56%

Periodicals 20%

Microfilms 12%

Electronic materials 12%


• The National Library acquired re-search literature at a total cost of EUR 668,000.

• A total of 22.6 million articles were downloaded from FinELib materials.

• Full text documents from the Na-tional Library’s publication archive services were downloaded almost 24 million times, 40% more than the previous year.

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Library building renovation continues

The renovation of the National Library’s main building designed by Carl Ludwig Engel began in the summer of 2013.

The renovation has focused on the updating of the build-ing’s technical systems, as well as improvements in accessibility and the functionality of the Library’s facilities. The repair work is characterised by the large number of conservators, as well as the use of models to find design solutions in cooperation with the National Board of Antiquities and other experts. The Library’s large reading rooms have been conserved and the installation of wood flooring is underway. Most of Finland’s conservators, possessing the sector’s most up-to-date expertise, are currently involved with the Library’s renovation project.

Excavation works for the new coatroom at the basement lev-el are in the final stages, as are the installations of the building’s mechanical and electrical systems. The National Library’s own internal planning group is formulating the building’s future ser-vice concept, new furnishing layouts, and a complete overhaul of its hardware. The renovation will be completed in the late au-tumn of 2015 and the Library will be open to the public in early 2016. Until then the Library will serve its customers from the en-trance at Fabianinkatu 35.

The University of Helsinki’s funds own the property; the University’s Centre for Properties and Facilities is in charge of construction management. Pauno Narjus/ LPR Architects is the project’s chief designer, and NCC Rakennus Oy is the main con-tractor. The project’s cost estimate is EUR 19 million (VAT= 0).

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System platform servicesThe National Library maintains and develops national bib-liographic databases and library systems, providing them as services to Finnish libraries, museums, and archives. The Voyager library system can be accessed in all Finnish uni-versity libraries, almost all libraries in universities of applied sciences, as well as in a few special libraries. All Voyager databases are located in a common server whose techni-cal performance and maintenance are the responsibility of the CSC – IT Center for Science. The National Library coordinates the system’s development and maintenance jointly with the systems supplier Ex Libris and its customer libraries.

To improve the service’s tracking and measurement, tools facilitating troubleshooting situations and the imple-mentation of more efficient work allocations were devel-oped during the year.

The Nelli service is currently undergoing a maintenance phase, and new features will be implemented as required. Over the long term Finna will replace Nelli’s customer in-terface.

Publication archiving servicesThe National Library develops its national-level publication archiving services that provide customer organisations with cost-effective and high-quality services. The National Li-brary also actively participates in international cooperation related to publication archiving.

By the end of 2014 there were over 270,000 data re-cords, of which approximately 150,000 were linked to free-ly available full text materials, in the seven separate pub-lication archives (Doria, Theseus, Julkari, Jukuri, TamPub, Fenno-Ugrica, Fragmenta membranea) maintained by the National Library. The user statistics for publication archiving

services continued to register strong growth; during the statistical year (1 October 2013– 30 September 2014), full text publications had been downloaded almost 24 million times, representing an approximately 40% increase over the previous year.

Development of the KITT2library statistics databaseSince 2002, the National Library has coordinated the trans-mission of statistical information from Finland’s scientific li-braries to the KITT database, which is used to generate annual statistics that describe the libraries’ operations and services.

The KITT2 library statistics database, a new system whose development began in 2011, was fully adopted in 2014; results from QOS surveys indicate that customer sat-isfaction with the KITT service has increased compared to the previous year.

Quantities of licensed resources by resource type,*) figure includes Knovel, transferred from E-books to reference works.**) Includes OECD iLibrary and LION transferred from E-books to reference works in 2013.

Quantities of licensed resources by resource type 2014:

Resource type Quantity of Quantity of Quantity of licensed resources, 2014 licensed resources, 2013 licensed resources, 2012

E-magazines 57 155 40 705 38 000

Reference databases 111 103 112

Reference works 5380 **) 29 287 *) 4400

E-books 379 204 347 650 360 000

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DonationsProfessor Peter von Bagh donated his private collection of film literature to the National Library of Finland before his death. Containing approximately 8,000 books and periodicals, the collection, the most extensive of its kind in the Nordic countries, consists primarily of English-, French-, and Italian-language literature dealing with filmmakers and directors, writing and acting, set design and film music, as well as the history of cinema.

Music Finland (formerly the Finnish Music Information Centre Fimic) donated a substantial quantity of musical materials that include press clippings, concert programmes, and records. The collection of press clippings focuses on Finnish composers and their works from the 1960s to the 2000s. The collection of press clippings was donated to the Library in filing cabinets.

The Institute of Migration donated a sheet music collection containing com-mercial Finnish sheet music publications sold by the New York-based Finnish Book Concern in the early 1900s.

The approximately 16,000 CD discs donated by the Finnish Broadcasting Com-pany were checked and over half were added to collections. The donated discs have primarily filled gaps in collections of domestic pop music, rock, light music, and hits, as well as classical music records, choir recordings, world music, and folk music. Most of the donated records (approximately 6,700) formed a working copy collection that speeds up service.

Professor Jukka Kemppinen donated his literary life’s work to the National Lib-rary as an electronic archives that includes, for example, electronic manuscript versions of his works and articles, approximately 3,500 blog posts, and approxi-mately 35,000 related reader comments and photographs.

Linda Jakobson donated her father Max Jakobson’s private book collection that will become the Max Jakobson Library incorporated into the National Library as an independent entity. Occupying almost 100 metres of shelf space, the collec-tion covers topics dealing with domestic and international politics, history and cultural history, military defence, philosophy, academic journals, biographies, memoirs, and literary works.

The University of Helsinki’s Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies donated its manuscript collection to the academic archives of Johan Jacob Tikkanen, Finland’s first Professor of Art History. Supplementing the Na-tional Library’s existing collection of J. J. Tikkanen’s letters, the archives include an extensive and unique card index containing approximately 56,000 memory cards dealing primarily with the roles of expression and gesture in art history and iconography. The archive also contains sketchbooks and diaries, lecture con-cepts, annotated printed products, postcards, photographs, press clippings, and letters.

Professor Heikki A. Reenpää supplemented the significant collection, previous-ly donated to the National Library and bearing his name, with several hundred works.

Ambassador Erik Heinrichs donated several volumes of the French magazine L’Illustration to the National Library, including issues dealing with Finland’s Win-ter War during the period 1939–1940.

Thomas Thesleff donated vintage European literature to be preserved as a col-lection bearing his name.

Juri Nummelin donated kiosk literature dating from the 1960s–1990s.

Saara Kaurala donated missing issues of the “Suuri kurpitsa” (“Great Pumpkin”) comic book.

The National Library’s Humanities Collection was also augmented by donations from the Helsinki University Library and a few of the University of Helsinki’s institutes.

The National Library of Finland thanks all donors.

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Skilled and contented personnelThe National Library’s success is based on its skilled hu-man resources. The Library invests substantially in the development of expertise whose goal is to facilitate the best possible fit between functional needs and know-how. During the year, human resource skills continued to be developed according to strategic emphasis areas: the conceptualisation and productification of the Na-tional Digital Library, metadata services, new systems and architectures, finance, communications and mar-keting, customer and partner expertise, as well as man-agement and supervisory techniques.

The National Library invests substantially in the de-

velopment of workplace well-being. The main theme of the occupational well-being programme developed for the period 2013–2016 is Työniloa ja hyvää työtoveruut-ta (“Job Satisfaction and Good Working Relationships”). The programme aims at achieving a favourable work-place ambience, job satisfaction, smoother information flows within the Library, as well as improved inter-divi-sional cooperation, management, and supervisory skills. An active occupational welfare network consisting of the entire library and its divisions’ occupational welfare groups functions actively in the National Library.

At the end of 2104, the National Library had 232 full-time and 32 fixed-term employees.

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FundingThe funding of the National Library consists of core fund-ing, supplementary funding, and income from business activities. Core funding is specifically intended for the management of the National Library’s statutory and na-tional tasks, as well as for the services required by sci-ence and research. The amount of core funding in 2014 was EUR 22.2 million (EUR 21.6 million in 2013). Supple-mentary funding consists of general funding granted the Ministry of Education and Culture for the library sector’s services, as well as funding granted for various projects that the National Library has sought from sources such as the European Social Fund, foundations, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. In 2014 the National Library had the use of EUR 4.6 million (EUR 4.7 million in 2013). The larger-scale projects included the development of the

National Digital Library’s customer interface, for which EUR 1.2 million of supplementary funding was available in 2014, and the National Metadata Repository Project, for which EUR 0.5 million of supplementary funding was available. The Ministry of Education and Culture financed both projects. The general funding granted for the library sector’s services totalled EUR 0.9 million (EUR 0.9 million in 2013).

The National Library’s income from business activities in 2014 totalled EUR 0.7 million (EUR 0.8 million in 2013). Business income accrued from, for example, FinELib ser-vice agreements, public archives’ service agreements, as well as payments for digitisation, microfilming, repro-duction, and distance loans. Special libraries partially pay for the National Library’s sector services according to its pricing for business activities. The surplus from business activities in 2014 was approximately EUR 10,000 (EUR 23,000 surplus in 2013).

ExpenditureThe National Library’s largest expenditure item is person-nel costs, which accounted for 52% of total costs (52% in 2013). The ratio of core-funded wages to core funding costs was 48% (46% in 2013). When a portion of the Fin-na, Melinda, and Finto projects became core operations, a part of their personnel costs were also covered by core funding. Leasing costs decreased compared to the previ-ous year as a result of the Library’s lower rent payments for its temporary facilities during the renovation of the Library’s main building designed by C.L. Engel. Leasing costs accounted for 19% (21% in 2013) of total expenses. Licenses from electronic materials accounted for 12% of total expenses, acquisitions of library materials for 2%.

Funding of the National Library 2014 2013 € €

Core funding total 22 189 491 21 646 437

Core funding 21 554 444 21 225 572

Ministry of Education and Culture 16 743 000 16 520 000

University of Helsinki 4 811 444 4 705 572

Other operating income1 635 047 420 865

Income from business activities 729 087 753 026

External funding2 4 563 264 4 710 513

Total resources 27 481 842 27 109 976

1 Includes additional allocation to compensate for increased leasing costs in 2012, and late charges’ compensation for 2011-2012 received in 2013. 2 Does not include supplementary funding or private equity funds transferred for use during the following year.

Expenditure of the National Library 2014 2013 € €

Total core funding expenditure 20 434 765 19 984 252Personnel 9 847 704 9 127 850

Library collections 545 397 500 483

Licenses for electronic materials 3 157 047 3 179 679

Premises 4 474 709 5 021 475

Other expenses 2 409 907 2 154 765

Total business activities expenditure 738 962 730 099Personnel 442 567 520 479

Other expenses 296 395 209 620

Total supplementary funding expenditure 4 550 485 4 705 964Personnel 3 063 969 3 456 978

Other expenses 1 486 516 1 248 986

Total expenditure 25 724 212 25 420 315

Further information:

- National Library’s facility expenses total 4 826 940 5 388 169


National Library of Finland: Organisation and Directors

Liisa SavolainenFunction Director

Majlis Bremer-LaamanenFunction Director

Ministry of Education and Culture University of Helsinki

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Director

Kai Ekholm

Administration and Development

Research Library Library Network ServicesCentre for Preservationand Digitisation

Dorrit GustafssonDirector

Kristiina Hormia-PoutanenFunction Director

The National Library’s newBoard began its term on 1 April 2014 with Vice-RectorAnna Mauranen as its Chair. Ve

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Board of the National Library of Finland, 1 April 2014 – 31 March 20188

Representatives of the Student Unionof the University of Helsinki appointed for the term1 April 2014 – 31 March 2015.

Chair of the Board Vice-Rector Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki

MembersRepresentative of the Ministry of Education and Culture Counsellor for Cultural Affairs Hannu Sulin

Representatives of the Library Sector AMKIT Consortium’s Information Service ManagerSinikka Luokkanen,HAMK University of Applied Sciences

Council for Special Libraries Library Cecilia af Forselles,Library of the Finnish Literature Society

Council for Public Libraries Library Director Tuula Haavisto,Helsinki City Library

Council for Finnish University Libraries Library Director Ulla Nygrén, Turku University Library

Representatives of the University of Helsinki Professor Aila Lauha Professor, Vice-Dean Esko Ukkonen Vice-Rector Anna Mauranen National Library’s staff representative,Financial Planning Officer Marja-Liisa Lonardi

Representative of the University of Helsinki Student Union Student of law and philosophy Marie-Elena Vatjus

Representatives appointed jointly by the Ministryof Education and Culture and the University of Helsinki Finnish Broadcasting Company, Director of Programmes Ismo Silvo Executive Director Jukka-Pekka Pietiäinen,The Finnish Association of Non-fiction WritersProject Director Kristiina Markkula, Federation of the Finnish Media Industry

Kai Ekholm, Director of the National Library of Finland, acted as the presenting official of the Board, Kristiina Hormia Poutanen, Director of Library Services, as an expert, and Dorrit Gustafsson, Director of Administration and Development, as secretary.

Steering group of theNational Library of Finland

ChairKai Ekholm, Director

MembersMajlis Bremer-Laamanen, Function DirectorKristiina Hormia-Poutanen, Function DirectorLiisa Savolainen, Function DirectorDorrit Gustafsson, Director of Administration and Deve-lopmentAri Ahlqvist, staff representative, information systems expert Chief Press Officer Katri NissiläRita Saari, administrative secretary

Ilkka and Ulla Paatero FundChair Managing Director Ilkka Paatero

Board of the National Library Cultural Heritage FundChair Professor Markku Löytönen

Humanistic Advisory BoardChair Professor Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen,University of Turku

Board of the Slavonic LibraryChair Riitta Pyykkö, Professor, University of Turku

Steering Group for National CataloguingChair Tuula Haapamäki, Production Manager

FinElib Steering GroupChair Rector Matti Manninen, University of Jyväskylä

Linnea2 Consortium Steering GroupChair Librarian Minna Niemi-Grundström,Tampere University Library

University of Helsinki

Board and other administrative bodies


ORGANISATIONS AND BODIES

• Aalto University, Graphical design• Aalto University, Small Business Center,

ARTS• Aalto University, Semantic Computing

Research Group (SeCo)• Aalto University, School of Science, Depart-

ment of Media Technology, usability study• AMKIT Consortium• National Archives Service of Finland• Open GLAM• Brages Pressarkiv• BTJ Finland Oy• Celia – Library for the Visually Impaired• CSC – IT Center for Science• Demola• The Council for Special Libraries• Esan Kirjapaino Oy• South Savo Centre for Economic Develop-

ment, Transport, and the Environment• FinnOA group• Gramex ry• HAKA trust network• Helsinki City Library, Central Library for

Public Libraries• Helsingin Sanomat Foundation• University of Helsinki – Faculty of Arts – Central campus; faculties and institutes – various faculties’ financial officers – Local Advisor Network – Central Archives – Finances – Department of General Linguistics – Department of Computer Science – IT Center – Centre for Properties and Facilities

• Helsinki University Library• Information Research Association (ITY)• The Advisory Committee on Information

Management in Public Administration (JUHTA)

• National Audiovisual Institute KAVI• Description of the National Library of

Finland’s library materials, steering group• National Archives• National Museum of Finland• NDL, National Digital Library, tracking

group, steering group, availability unit, long-term conservation unit, technical expert team, expert teams, metadata team

• Jurisprudence group for the library, archive, and museum sector

• Libraries of universities and universities of applied sciences, public libraries and special libraries

• Kirjastot.fi steering group• Evaluation group for the impact of library

activities• Kirjavälitys Oy• Kone Foundation• Kopiosto Copyright Society• KSF-Media Oy• Kuvasto ry• Linnea2 Consortium, steering group,

working groups and expert teams• MTT Agrifood Research Finland• National Land Survey of Finland• Mehiläinen Working Life Services• City of Mikkeli• Mikkeli University Consortium steering

group and working groups• Miktech Oy• Otavamedia• Sanasto• The Finnish Terminology Centre TSK• Sibelius Society• Finnish Literature Society• Finnish Library Association• The Finnish Book Art Committee• Finnish Museums Association• Finnish Standards Association SFS.• Finnish Research Library Association• Society of Swedish Literature in Finland

(SLS)

• Talle, Finnish Document Management Association

• University of Tampere, Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media

• Teosto, Finnish Composers’ Copyright Society

• Prime Minister’s Office• Legal Deposit Libraries (all)• National Repository Library• Federation of the Finnish Media Industry• Viestilehdet Oy• YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company• Council of Finnish Public Libraries• Council for Finnish University Libraries

National interaction and cooperation 2014

Cultural cooperation

• Ainola Foundation• Espoo Bookbinders Society• University of Helsinki,

Theoretical Philosophy• National Archives• The Finnish Institute for

Children’s Literature• The Finnish Literature Society• Finnish Aphorism Association• Philosophical Society of Finland• National Museum of Finland• Finnish Book Art Committee• The von Wright and Wittgenstein Archives

at the University of Helsinki (WWA)


ORGANISATIONS AND BODIES

• Alto Editorial Board, metadata development team

• BAAC, Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council

• Bibliotheca Baltica, cooperation body for libraries in the Baltic Sea region

• Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden, Germany

• CCS, Content Conversion Specialists GmbH, Germany

• CDNL, Conference of Directors of National Libraries

• CENL, Conference of European National Libraries

• CENL Executive committee

• CERL, Consortium of European Research Libraries

• CLM, Copyright and other Legal Matters, working group

• Cobra+, coordination body for European national library project cooperation

• Conference on Open Repositories

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, developer group and steering group of the Dublin Core Standard

• EBLIDA, European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations

• EDItEUR, international group coordinating develop-ment of the standards infrastructure for electronic commerce in the book, e-book and serials sectors

• Eesti Rahvusraamatukog, the Estonian National Library

• eIFL (electronic information for libraries)

• ELAG, European Library Automation Group

• EURIG, European RDA Interest Group

• Europeana, the European Digital Library

• Europeana Newspapers project

• The Council of Aggregators and Content Providers /Europeana network and its groups

• EROMM, European Register of Microform Masters

• ICOLC, International Coalition of Library Consortia

• FAIFE, Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression

• IAML, International Association of Music Libraries

• IASA, International Association of Sound and Audiovi-sual Archives

• ICA, International Cartographic Association

• IFLA, International Federation of Library Associations, several divisions and working groups

• IGELU, International Group of Ex Libris Users, various groups

• IIPC, International Internet Preservation Consortium

• IMPACT, Competence Centre for Digitisation

• ISBN Board, International ISBN Agency

• ISO, International Organisation for Standardisation, several working groups under Technical Committee 46

• ISSN, Governing Board, ISSN network, standards orga-nisation for publications’ descriptions

• Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA, Technical Working Group

• The National Library of the Republic of Karelia, Petro-zavodsk

• The National Library of the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar

• Kungliga Bibliotek, National Library of Sweden

• Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka, National Library of Latvia

• LIBER, Association of European Research Libraries

• Library of Congress

• Chavain National Library of the Mari El Republic, Yoshkar-Ola

• MSEG, Member States’ Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation

• METS Editorial Board, metadata development group

• National Library of the Republic of Mordovia, Saransk

• Murmansk State Regional Universal Scientific Library, Murmansk

• Nasjonalbiblioteket, National Library of Norway

• National Library Resources, Moscow

• Göttingen State and University Library, Göttingen, Germany

• NISO, US National Information Standards Organisation

• NOA, Audio Solutions VertriebsmbH, Austria

• NORON, Nordic Conference of State and National Library Directors

• Scandinavian Library Quarterly, membership on edito-rial board

• The Finnish Institute in London

• SVUC, Scandinavian Virtual Union Catalogue

• TEL, The European Library

• National Library of the Udmurt Republic, Izhevsk

• The National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg

International Interaction and cooperation 2014


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