City of Kemi

PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KEMI

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LIBRARY SERVICES

Online newspapers

Read your local newspapers in our reading room. We have a service called PressDisplay, just for reading online newspapers from all over the world. You can have access to 500 newspapers from 70 countries in 37 different languages.

Come and check what´s going on back home today!
 

Loanable materials: books, magazines, records, videotapes, DVD´s etc...

Loan periods:

28 days; normal loan
14 days; magazines, games, CD-roms
 7 days; CD-records, videotapes, DVDs, weekly loans

Library card

You can have a library card after verifying your identity. Customers under 15 years are required a consent from their parents.
The card is for personal use only and must be presented each time you borrow.
You must inform the library at any changes in your personal name and/or address, or if your card gets lost.
The card-holder (or parents of a customer under 15 years) is responsible for all the material borrowed with the card.
You can lose your right to borrow if:

You don´t return your loans in time
Your unpaid payments exceed 5 euros

You can regain your right to borrow by returning the materials on loan and settling all your payments.

Renewal

Loans can be renewd in the library or by telephone (016-258253 or 016-258264) or in the Internet

Reservations

You can make reservations on materials that are on loan.

Interlibrary service

If we don´t have the material that you need, we can borrow it for you from other libraries in Finland.

Information retrievals

are performed on request at Information Service point and in Music- and Children´s departments

Reference libraries

in all departments (Lending, Music, Children, Veitsiluoto)

Reading room

most Finnish (and some foreign) newspapers and magazines, telephone books

Online newspapers

Read your local newspapers in our reading room. We have a new service called PressDisplay, just for reading online newspapers from all over the world. You can have access to 500 newspapers from 70 countries in 37 different languages.

Come and check what happened back home today!

Services at the Main Library

2 research rooms
microfilm reading devices
TV and music listening
copying machine
Internet and e-mail

LIBRARIES AND OPENING HOURS

Main library

Marina Takalon katu 3
94100 Kemi
Telefax: 016-258275
 

Lending dept

016-258253
Reference library,
Information service
016-258252
Children´s dept 016-258258
Music dept 016-258260

Mobile library

0400-392987, office: 016-258271
Check the timetable on our website: http://www.kemi.fi/kirjasto/aikataulu.htm

Opening hours

Day of the week

Winter season 1.9. - 31.5.

Summer season 1.6. - 31.8.

Main Library

Reading Room

Main Library

Reading Room

Mon

10 - 19

10 - 19

10 - 18

10 - 18

Tue

10 - 19

10 - 19

10 - 18

10 - 18

Wed

10 - 19

10 - 19

10 - 18

10 - 18

Thu

10 - 19

10 - 19

10 - 18

10 - 18

Fri

10 - 17

10 - 17

10 - 18

10 - 18

Sat

10 - 15

10 - 15

closed

closed

Sun

closed

11 - 15

closed

closed

Veitsiluoto branch library opening hours beginning April 1st, 2005:

  • tuesdays and thursdays, 13 -19

  • eves and days before eves, 10 -15

  • mondays, wednesdays and school holidays, closed

  • closed from June 1st to August 14th


CHARGES
 

First card free
Replacement of a lost card 2,00 €
Replacement of lost or damaged material price of similar material
Reminder of an overdue loan 2,00 €
Plastic bag 0,10 €
CD-ROM recordable disc 1,00 €
Reservation fee 1,00 €
Interlibrary services
Loans 2,00 - 7,00 €
Microfilms 9,00 €
Photocopies as invoiced
Sending a telefax
1 - 5 pages 1,00 €
next 5 pages 0,50 €
Photocopies / printing
Self-service, slot machine 0,20
Printing / page 0,10 €
If you want the staff to do the copies
normal photocopy 0,40 €
color photocopy 0,60 €
copies on a transparency film 0,80 €
   
Research rooms
hour 1,00 €
day 5,00 €
week 15,00 €
month 60,00 €
Music room
private use free
teaching 8,50 €  / hour
Meeting and presentation rooms
1 - 4 hours 34,00 € / day
over 4 hours 68,00 € / day