The Slavonic Library
Books in the Slavonic Library
Collection materials in format
Analogue
Digital
Digitised
On microfiche
On microfilm
The books in the Slavonic Library are mostly related to Russia and other Slavic countries, peoples and cultures.
Collection links
Kansalliskirjaston hakupalvelu (opens a new tab) Finna.fi - Suomen kulttuurin ja tieteen aineistojen hakupalvelu (opens a new tab) Aiheenmukainen kortisto: ennen vuotta 1917 ilmestyneet (opens a new tab) Aiheenmukainen kortisto: folklore ja kirjallisuudentutkimus (opens a new tab) Aiheenmukainen kortisto: Polonica (opens a new tab) Rariteetit. Planssit. Vanha Polonica (opens a new tab)Collection description
The books in the Slavonic Library are mostly related to Russia and other Slavic countries, peoples and cultures. The collection serves research of Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in humanities and social sciences.
The book collection includes deposit copies from around the Russian Empire on all topics received in 1828–1917. The collection also includes reference books, bibliographies and dictionaries from the early-1800s on.
Collection languages
Material type
Books
Ephemera
online materials
Accrual status
Continuous
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Main collection
The Slavonic LibraryParent collection
The Slavonic LibrarySubcollections
Books in the Slavonic Library published after 1917 Books in the Slavonic Library published prior to 1917 Rare books in the Slavonic LibraryRestrictions of use
Only for Special Collections Reading Room Only for reading rooms In the open collection Kept in closed stack collection, use requires ordering the publication In the reference collection Digitised on legal deposit terminals as e-material for remote access As a microfilm on reading stations Available for home loanCollection themes
Cataloguing principles
The description retains the character set and orthography of the publication whenever possible. Cyrillic characters may also be retrieved as transliterated according to the ISO-9 standard (see the transliteration guidelines).
Catalogue information
Paper catalogue made of the collection
Card catalogue made of the collection
The collection has been described in the reference database
The collection has been only partially catalogued
More information about cataloguing
Most of the books in the Slavonic Library can be found through the National Library’s search service. Some of the dictionaries, bibliographies and reference material can only be found in the card catalogue. For the Polonica collection, monographs published in serial publications and books acquired in the 1980s are similarly only available through the card catalogue.
Acquisition policy
In accordance with the collection development policy of the National Library of Finland, research literature in humanities and social sciences and source materials in Slavic and key European languages will be acquired to the collection.