What´s going on

Changes will be made in the City of Vantaa data connections on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 7-9:30 am. Some of the library and online services will be unavailable during the maintenance. Self-service libraries in Kivistö, Länsimäki, Point and Pähkinärinne will be closed in the morning.

Finnish Science Centre Heureka will visit Vantaa libraries during 2023 and bring the joy of insight! The themes of the visits will focus on exhibitions currently on show in Heureka.

Vantaa City Library’s new service “Book sets for families” provides sets of books compiled on the basis of your family’s wishes, which you can easily pick up at the library. 

The library’s safer space principles were compiled together with the staff and visitors.

As of February 1, 2023, premises and devices currently reserved through the Varaamo service will transfer to the Timmi 360 service.
You can make reservations for premises and devices on Varaamo up to January 31, 2023.

Vantaa libraries adopt a new printing system, which has been developed based on the employees’ and library visitors’ wishes. You will need a library card for printing, photocopying, and scanning documents.

The energy consumption meter allows you to measure the electricity consumption of household appliances plugged in to the power point. The loan period is two weeks, and a valid Helmet library card is required for borrowing the meter.

Hakunila library will reopen its doors on Monday, September 19, at 8:00. The bookmobile serves on Wednesdays, at 17:00-18:00, at Hakunila library stop, until August 31.   

In the Lukulumo application, you can find over 520 Finnish language books, many of which you can listen to in over 50 different languages. Lukulumo is available in every Espoo library and almost every library in Vantaa.

As a volunteer at a Vantaa city library, you can participate in arranging many different activities. You can also arrange activities in your mother tongue.

Helmet libraries will start charging customers a fee of €1 for reservations that have not been picked up or cancelled by the last pick-up date. Reserving materials will continue to be free of charge.
The uncollected reservation fee will be introduced 1 June 2021.

Vantaa City Library arranges a Tastes for the Mind reading-promotion summer campaign that aims to encourage families with children to read and to use library services. The campaign begins on June 21 and ends on August 31.