Future library

The Central Library will be a combination of personal cultivation, culture and entertainment. It will be a vibrant and functionally versatile meeting place, a house of literature in which the users are the focus. The new Central Library will be a dynamic entity comprised of the physical spaces themselves as well as technology, library collections, staff, cooperation partners and clients. Of central importance is the benefit gained from new technologies in cooperation with clients and cooperation partners. The Central Library will be not only a physical space but also a new kind of digital library serving its clients in the library space itself as well as via the internet, ubiquitously spreading out into its surroundings. The new technology makes the contents of the internet visible also within the library spaces, integrated with the traditional library collections.

General information

• 5,000 visitors a day
• 1.5 million visitors a year
• 10 000 m² of adaptable space for tomorrow’s library
• Open week days at 8.00-22.00
• Open on weekends at 10.00-22.00
• Library staff 45
• Book collections: 150 000 books
• Newspapers and magazines: 900 subscriptions
• Music collection: 40 000 items
• Other collections: 10 000 items
• Opening in 2017
• Site location: near Töölö Bay, Helsinki