Almost all library materials in Finland can be checked out. The Library of Parliament, the National Library of Finland and libraries located of higher educational institutions are also open to everyone.

The National Library provides and disseminates information content for research and education as well as for the public and society at large, and develops its services together with libraries, archives, …

Finland has a very strong library field, both in terms of public and academic libraries. Public libraries are particularly strong, with the highest number of visits per person in the world. There may be scope for …

The Finnish University Libraries Network (former Council for Finnish University Libraries) is an organisation representing all research universities in Finland.

The Finnish system of municipal libraries is of high quality by international standards. There is a total of 738 main and branch libraries in Finland. Up to 70 per cent of Finns live within three kilometres from …

There are 797,000 eBOOK LOANS in Finnish libraries each year There are 67.4 MILLION BOOK LOANS in Finland each year

Libraries struggled rather than flourished during the following decades. As Miss Helle Kannila, probably the most influential person in the development of libraries during the last thirty years, pointed out: "As …