Services

Adult lending department

• You can borrow fiction and non-fiction, magazines, sound recordings, books on cassettes, slides, videos, DVD disks and CD-ROMs.
• You can get help with finding material.
• You can make reservations and suggest what material we could acquire.
• You can copy material.
• You can use the Internet and wlan.
• You can use Ebsco MasterFile Elite -database on computers. The database contains articles in English from about 1200 magazines. To the list of the magazines 

Children's department

• You can borrow children’s books and juvenile books, books on cassettes, music recordings, videos, DVD disks and CD-ROMs.
• You can get help with finding material.
• You can listen to music and fairy-tales on cassette.
• You can use the Internet or CD-ROMs.
• The department works together with schools, day-care centres and other communities who work with children.
  

Music department

• You can borrow music books, notes and scores.
• There is a versatile collection of records to listen.
• You can read music magazines and the books of the music reference library.
• Information searches can be made of music material.
• CDs and cassettes, which can be borrowed, are placed on the adult lending department and children’s department.

Reference library

• You can get help with information searches or one can be made for you using different kinds of databases and the Internet.
• Instruction in using the library and retrieving information is given.
• There are desks for those who want to study.
• You can use the Internet and wlan.
• You can use CD-ROMs on a computer reserved for that purpose.
• You can use Ebsco MasterFile Elite –database on computers in the main library. The database contains articles in English from about 1200 magazines. To the list of the magazines
• Material of the reference library can only be borrowed exceptionally.
• Books for entrance examinations and other exams can be borrowed for nights and weekends.
• In the reference library there is e.g. following material: Encyclopaedias and reference books, dictionaries of different languages, guides on how to make different kinds of documents, registers, The Statute Books of Finland, collections of regulations and parliamentary documents, different kinds of statistics, maps, books for entrance examinations and other exams, magazines

Inter-library lending department

• The department delivers inter-library loans to other libraries.
• Material for the local collection is acquired.
• The department informs other libraries of the region of current library issues and organises meetings for the library staff of the region.
• Microfilms (old newspapers and parish registers) can also be borrowed from other libraries.

Acquisition and cataloguing department

• The material, which has been selected by different departments, is acquired, catalogued and passed on to be loaned

Newspaper reading-room

• You can read newspapers and magazines of the current year.
• You can copy articles from the magazines and newspapers.
• You can use the Internet.
• There are magazines also in the reference library, music department, children’s department and mobile library.
• Volumes older than the current year are stored in the main library.
• You can find all the magazines and newspapers, that are subscribed to the library, in the catalog of newspapers and catalog of magazines. (in Finnish)
• The catalog of newspapers and magazines in other languages than Finnish
• You can use Ebsco MasterFile Elite –database. The database contains articles in English from about 1200 magazines. To the list of the magazines

• You can borrow fiction and non-fiction, magazines, sound recordings, books on cassettes, slides, videos and CD-ROMs.
• You can get help in finding material.
• Mobile library works together with different target groups for example schools and day-care centres.
• You can make reservations and suggest what material we could acquire.
• All the material of the library is also in use of the customers of the mobile library.
• Timetables are available at the mobile libraries and at the main library and Ylistaro library. Timetables are also available in Finnish on the Internet.
• The Seinäjoki Public Library got its first mobile library in 1971. Its activities are chiefly centred on the residential suburbs. It operates also as a school library, in other words replaces in some areas the school libraries.
• The mobile libraries have more than 100 stopping-points

• You can borrow fiction and non-fiction, magazines, sound recordings, books on cassettes, slides, videos, DVDs and CD-ROMs.
• You can get help with finding material.
• You can make reservations and suggest what material we could acquire.
• You can use the Internet.
  

• The hospital library operates in two locations: Törnävä Hospital and Simuna service center for old people.
• Both the patients and hospital staff can use the library.
• You can borrow books, magazines and audiobooks and listen to music at the Törnävä hospital library