The Heikki A. Reenpää Library

Professor Heikki A. Reenpää donated his Fennica library to the National Library in 2004. The library's 20,000 volumes for the most part represent difficult to obtain early Finnish literature. The Reenpää collection's variant copies supplement the National Library's collections of early Finnish literature, still partially incomplete with respect to the early Turku printings. The more recent parts of the collection contain fiction.

Catalogues

• The collection is being catalogued in the Helka database; the work is in progress.

Literature

• Reenpää Heikki, Arvokas yksityiskirjasto koko kansan omaisuudeksi.- Kansalliskirjasto 3(2005): 2 , s. 22-25.
• Tarina kirjastosta. Heikki A. Reenpään Fennica-kokoelma avautuu myös Bibliofiilien seuran jäsenille. Bibliophilos 63 (2005): 1 , s. 3-8.

To be used in the Special Reading Room

Further information:
Sirkka.Havu(at)helsinki.fi
Pasi.Koste(at)helsinki.fi