Library

Library card and lending rights are free of charge for all users. The library is open to everyone, so you can continue to use the library after you finish your studies or employment.

The customer’s data is stored in the library’s customer register (privacy notice). The library card is personal and once you receive it, you are responsible for the material borrowed and you agree to follow the library’s user regulations. If you lose your library card, please notify the library immediately.

If you are a student at Turku UAS, you can get a mobile library card. You will be notified when you have a mobile card. If you wish, you can get a physical library card when you visit the library during the service hours.

If you are Turku UAS staff, fill in the library card application, come to the library during the service hours and take your identity card with you. You will receive a library card, which also includes a mobile card.

If you are not a student or staff member of Turku UAS, apply for a library card as an external customer, visit the library during the service hours.

Libraries use self-check machines. A library card is required to borrow material. Loan periods vary depending on the material.

• Books and theses 28 days
• Electronic theses freely available in the Turku UAS Finna search service
• Textbooks 14 days
• Short loan 1 day
• Videos, DVDs and audio recordings 14 days
• Sheet music 28 days
• Reference collection items overnight and weekend loan. Materials are borrowed from library staff one hour before the end of the service hours and returned to the same campus library on the next day the library is open at the beginning of the service hours.
• Printed journals the loan period varies from campus to campus.

Campus library collections focus on materials in the fields studied on the campus. You can find more detailed information about the library’s materials, their loan periods and the exact location of the materials in the Turku UAS Finna Search service.

Students with reading difficulties can borrow textbooks as audiobooks via the Accessibility Library Celia. Students who find it difficult to read a normal printed book for health or learning disability reasons have access to Celia’s audiobook service. The library registers patrons as users of the Celia online service during campus library service hours.

Loans are automatically renewed for 12 months, unless there are reservations. If a loan cannot be renewed, you will receive a reminder by email three days before the due date and again on the due date.

When the automatic renewal time is up, the loans must be returned or borrowed again at the library.

Short loans and night and weekend loans are not renewed.

You can return your loan to any Turku UAS campus libraries except EduCity:

• Kupittaa Campus Library Lemppari: return your loans during the library’s opening hours using the self-check machine. Outside the library’s opening hours, returns can be left in the return drop box located next to the library’s door in the campus lobby or outside the building.

• Arts library Sigyn: return your loans during library opening hours using the self-check machine. Outside the library’s opening hours, returns can be left in the return drop box next to the machine or in the library’s premises.

• Salo: return your loans during library opening hours at the self-check machine.

A library card is not required for return. The loan period ends on the due date at the end of the campus library’s opening hours.

Loans left in the return box will be returned from your loans during library service hours. Please note that the return boxes located inside the building are only available on weekdays during campus opening hours.

Loans returned late will be subject to an overdue fine. The overdue fine must be paid even if the reminder of the approaching due date or the reminder for overdue loans has not been received. The fines and fees can be paid online in Turku UAS Finna or by debit card at Kupittaa Campus library Lemppari and the Arts library Sigyn.

Three reminders are sent by email for overdue loans that have not been returned. After the third reminder, an invoice will be sent for the unreturned material.

You can make reservations for the material in Turku UAS Finna or by contacting the library.

You can reserve materials on loan, materials available on the shelf and materials in the closed stacks. You can pick up your reservation from the Turku UAS campus library of your choice.

Log in to Turku UAS Finna with your Turku UAS credentials or with a one-time login link. Read the instructions on how to log in and make a reservation in Finna.

When the item you have reserved is available for pick up, you will receive an item available notice by email. Textbooks will be reserved for pick up for three working days and other materials for five working days.

Material that is not available in the Turku UAS library, or in the collection of any local library, can be borrowed from elsewhere. The library will place the order with another library on your behalf. The sending library will determine the loan period and other terms of use.

You can request materials using the interlibrary loan form or by visiting the library.

• Interlibrary loan request for Turku UAS students and staff
• Interlibrary loan request for customers outside of Turku UAS

Interlibrary loan services, i.e. ordering material from another library, is subject to a fee.

All the materials found from the Turku UAS Finna except audiovisual materials, manuscripts, short loans and textbooks are available for interlibrary loan. Photocopies of electronic full text materials acquired by the library are provided if the user agreement allows it.

Interlibrary loans are subject to a fee. Place an interlibrary loan request.

Contact interlibrary loan services:

E-mail: library@turkuamk.fi

Valid from 13.1.2023

Library service price list

The user regulations of the Turku UAS library

The personal and contact info of Turku UAS students is updated to the library from the Student Register (PEPPI). Library notification letters to students and staff are always sent to the Turku UAS email address.

If you are not a student or a staff member at Turku UAS, please report your changed contact information to the library. Please also remember to notify us of any changes to your email address so that the announcements related to library reservations and loans can reach you.

If you use the Turku UAS library card in some other scientific library, please report the change of contact information to that library as well.

The information skills workshops are open for all Turku UAS degree students working on their thesis. See Messi intranet for more information.

Consultation on information seeking is available for Turku UAS staff. See Messi intranet for more information.