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The Helmet online library is currently being renewed. We have now opened the new online library for test use at helmet.finna.fi. We kindly ask that you check out the new service and give us feedback. 

The Taskukirjasto app will be replaced with a Helmet library mobile site at the beginning of January 2024. In the future, you will be able to use a browser version of the new Helmet online library conveniently on your phone.  

Helmet.fi, the online library service of the Helmet libraries of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, will be renewed. This article provides information about the changes that the new online service will bring. The current functions of Helmet.fi will remain available for as long as the current version is in use. 

Oodi’s fifth anniversary will be celebrated with a varied programme on Tuesday 5 December starting from 14:00.

According to the current estimate, the renovation of the Rikhardinkatu Library will begin in 2026. The library will be developed together with the residents of Helsinki.

The exterior look of Helsinki’s libraries is being updated. What do you think is good about the designs, and what still needs to be developed? Please share your opinion by 26 November. When you do, you can also enter a prize draw for a chance to win some Helsinki products.

The gaming education and culture’s theme week, the national Gaming Week (Kansallinen Peliviikko) is displayed in a myriad of ways in Helmet libraries on November 6–12.

Only registered users will have access to the Helmet self-service libraries as of 1 November 2023, when the new self-service library rules enter into force. You can register at any Helmet library.

The name of Kivistö Library is changed into Mosaiikki Library. Mosaiikki Library will open on October 5, 2023, in the Mosaiikki urban culture center in Kivis shopping mall. In the beginning, the library will only have a limited number of services. This brochure tells what the new library will have when it is opened in its entirety at the end of 2023.

This year’s Finnish-language book gift is called Zakir ja kevät, written by Malin Klingenberg and illustrated by Margareta Sandin. The campaign starts in the Helmet libraries on Monday, 11 September 2023.

The upcoming 38th library in Helsinki, to open in early 2024, will be a unique local library in the middle of the residents’ daily lives and along their routes. The playful premises of the new library invite visitors to read and spend time together. The library was planned together with the area’s residents.