The Eino Mikkola Collection
In 1988 the estate of Professor Eino Mikkola (1905-1987) donated Mikkola's exceptionally wide-ranging library, consisting of over 30,000 titles, to the Library. The collection contains a large quantity of Finnish literature printed during the Era of Swedish Rule, prohibited political literature and first editions of Finnish fiction. Mikkola's own research areas, classical philology and Antiquity research, are also extensively represented in the collection. Parts of the collection have been dispersed among the Library's other collections or have been sent to the Kuopio Repository Library, but four special entities - a total of approximately 8,000 volumes - have been preserved as separate collections:
- Classica
- Communistica
- Old Fennica
- First editions of Finnish fiction
Use
The special collections contained within the collection are used in the Special Reading Room.
Catalogues
- The collection has been partially catalogued in the Helka database.
Literature
- Suomela, Julitta & Salemaa, Jaakko, Communistica ja Politica. Poliittista kirjallisuutta Eino Mikkolan lahjoituskokoelmassa. - Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston tiedotuslehti 2001:2, s. 11-16.
Further information:
Jaakko.Salemaa(at)helsinki.fi
