Humanities Collection

The Humanities Collection consists of Finnish and foreign literature related to the humanities and social science fields. Besides actual research literature, it also contains a considerable number of reference works, bibliographies and source publications. The main categories are history, Antiquity and Medieval research, art studies (music, literature, the visual arts), philosophy, linguistics, ecclesiastical history, theology, and Russian and Eastern European studies.

The older parts of the collection form Finland's most extensive collection of foreign literature. The multidisciplinary collection also contains literature from the fields of jurisprudence and the social sciences, medicine and the natural sciences. Regarding works of fiction, only critical editions of classics, published in their original languages, are acquired for the collection.

Besides books and magazines, the collection contains Finnish and foreign dissertations, newspapers in original and microform, maps and pictorial works. Parts of the collection can be used only in the Library.

Use of the collections
Reference library
Open and closed stack collections
Magazines
Newspapers
Map collections
List of pictorial works
Dissertations