Joensuu and Kuopio Campus Libraries
Year 2024
Monday 16.12. – Friday 20.12. 8–15 (Customer Service 10–15)
Saturday 21.12. – Sunday 29.12. closed
Monday 30.12. 8–15 (Customer Service 10–15)
Tuesday 31.12. 8–13 (Customer Service 10–13)
Year 2025
Wednesday 1.1. closed
Thursday 2.1. – Friday 3.1. 8–15 (Customer Service 10–15)
Saturday 4.1. – Monday 6.1. closed
The 24/7 self-study facilities
The 24/7 self-study facilities of Campus Libraries are open during the Christmas season. Please keep in mind that for safety reasons, each 24/7 user must enter the space one at a time using their personal access badge.
KUH Medical Library
Monday 16.12. – Thursday 19.12. 10–15
Friday 20.12.2024 – Monday 6.1.2025 closed
Other things to consider
If you have enquiries related to a 24/7 access badge, please note that Key Services is closed on the Kuopio campus from 23 December to 1 January 2025 and on the Joensuu campus from 23 December to 6 January 2025.
Our library’s interlibrary service is closed during the closing days of the campus libraries and serves again after the library has opened. Interlibrary service requests are processed in order of arrival.
You cannot order material from National Repository Library after Friday 20 December 2024. The National Repository Library will move during 2025, and it will be closed for several months.
Category: Library
Exceptions in the library opening hours due to Finnish Independence Day
Joensuu and Kuopio Campus Libraries are open on Thursday 5th December 2024 8am–1pm (customer service 10am–1pm) and KUH Medical Library 10am–1pm. On Independence Day 6th December 2024 and Saturday 7th December 2024 all library offices are closed.
The library’s 24/7 self-study facilities are open despite these exceptions.
The KUH Medical Library is open only from 10 am to 12 pm on Thursday 28 November
The KUH Medical Library is exceptionally open only from 10 am to 12 pm on Thursday 28 November. Next opening day of the library is Monday 2 December. The library will then be open from 12 pm 5 pm.
Kuopio Campus Library’s customer computers out of use on Thu 14 November
Due to a maintenance break, the customer computers of Kuopio Campus Library are not available on Thursday 14 November 2024.
During the break you can work at Oppari in Canthia.
Literature event Kirjakantti presents: Science comics
The traditional literary event Kirjakantti will be held 11-17 November 2024. The program spreads throughout the city for a week.
On Friday 15 November researcher Tero Mielonen interviews comic artist Lissu Lehtimaja at 13-13.45 in the main lobby of Snellmania building in either Finnish or English or bilingually. Before the interview, there will be a pop-up comics workshop and nature-themed animated films.
During November, the Kuopio Campus Library has a science comics exhibition, which can also be visited at UEF Primo.
See the programme of the Kirjakantti event (in Finnish). Free entry unless otherwise stated.
Transformer maintenance closes Kuopio campus library for the evening and night of 5.11.
Due to transformer maintenance Kuopio campus library’s self-study facilities are closed from Tue 5.11. 6 pm to Wed 6.11. 8 am.
Information for users of the Interlibrary Services and the National Repository Library!
The National Repository Library will be moving to new premises during 2025. The Repository Library’s interlibrary services operates normally until Christmas 2024 and then closes. Orders can be made from the materials of the Repository Library until 20 December 2024. The exact duration of the closing of the Repository Library is not yet known.
The Repository Library’s loans are renewed with long loan period. When the Repository Library is closed, there is no need to return the Repository Library loans.
The National Repository Library wishes that as many books as possible will be returned to them by 29 November 2024 to make the move easier. If you have loans from the Repository Library, that you no longer need, the wish would be that you would return them. However, there is no obligation to return the loans.
If you have any questions, please contact the interlibrary services at: kaukopalvelu@uef.fi
The library is invoicing overdue and reservation fees in the beginning of November
We are invoicing unpaid overdue and reservation fees in the beginning of November. We send the bills by e-mail. You can avoid the invoicing by paying your fees before that. Web payment on UEF Primo is a quick and easy way to pay the fees online. It is possible if the amount of fees is at least one euro. You can also pay the fees at the Joensuu and Kuopio campus libraries’ customer service with a payment card. Payment is not possible in the KUH Medical Library because there is no cash service.
If necessary, you can ask about your payments by sending an email to library@uef.fi.
Open master’s thesis raffle winner & Contributor for open science 2024
Every year, UEF Library raffles off a grant among UEF students who published their master’s thesis open access. This time 120 students signed up for the raffle and the Fortune smiled on Mirkka Rovamo.
Also each year, during the Open Science Week a UEFian is awarded as the contributor for open science and open access. The award was now given for the ninth time and handed over to Saimaa ringed seal research.
Read more about the award and the grant at UEF Library blog.
All Saints’ Day opening hours in the library
Joensuu and Kuopio Campus Libraries are open on Friday 1st November 2024 8am–1pm, customer service 10am–1pm. On Saturday 2nd November 2024 the libraries are closed.
The 24/7 self-study facilities of Campus Libraries are open despite these exceptions.