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.

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

News area

• You can read newspapers and magazines.
• You can copy articles from the magazines and newspapers.
• You can use the Internet.
• There are magazines also in the music and youth department, children’s department and mobile 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