Reference Collection

Main Building and the Rotunda, shelf classification
Tthe catalogue signature is in the brackets

General Reading Room, South Hall (E-halli)
Newspaper Room, North Hall (P-halli)
Cupola Hall, Central Hall (K-halli)
Rotunda

General Reading Room, South Hall (E-hall)

1st floor Cabinet nr

• Dictionaries 158-169
• Quotation dictionaries 169
• Atlases 164
• Biographies 170-183
• Writer´s dictionaries 186-187
• Dictionaries of pseudonyms 188
• Artist´s dictionaries 188-189

2nd floor Cabinets nr

• Statutes 142-147
• Official directories 148-149
• Parliament papers 150-157, 126-129
• Committee reports 129-133
• Source books 134-136
• Heraldry 137
• The University of Helsinki 137-140
• The Supreme Court 141
• The Supreme Administrative Court 141-142

3rd floor Cabinet nr

• Personal bibliographies 96-97
• National bibligraphies 97A.-100A.
• Library catalogues 101-104A.
• Source books 105-108A.
• Manuscript catalogues 109-109B.

Newspaper Room, North Hall (P-hall)

1st floor Cabinet nr

• Finnish periodicals (new) 198-199
• Foreign periodicals (new) 200-212
• Index and abstract bulletins 213-215
• HRAF files 215

Reference microfilms:

• Microfilmed Finnish periodicals 216-217
• Finnish maps -1809 (Kotim. karttoja vuoteen 1809) 217
• Music clippings 1918-1950 217
• Finnish newspapers -1920 218-221
• Metropolitan area newspapers 190-194

Reference Microfiche: Cabinets
Literature -1809:

• Dissertations from the Royal Academy in Turku -1827
• Epithalamiums and other personal poems 1565-1809
• Provincial Administrative Court announcements, Vasa 1776-1809
• Broadside ballads
• Special collections
• Manuscripts
• National Collection 1810-

Other microfiche: Cabinets

• Occasional poems 1810-1944
• Helsinki telephone directories 1882-1981
• Address directories
• Russian publications
• Gulf of Bothnia maps
• Index of Finnish newspaper articles 1771-1890

2nd floor Cabinet nr

• Finnish periodicals 230-251
• Local histories 222-228
• School histories 229

3rd floor Cabinet nr

• Finnish series 254-385

Cupola Hall, Central Hall (K-hall)

1st floor

• Encyclopedias
• The Repertory Catalogue of Books Printed before 1956 - alphabetical

2nd floor

• Complete works

Rotunda

1st floor

• Information Service Reference Collection

2nd floor

• Reference books, classes 001-990

3rd floor

• Foreign Periodicals Reference Collection
• General year books
• Scandinavian library catalogues
• Dissertation bibliographies