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Multilingual services

Are you looking for something to read in your own language? Helmet libraries have books, magazines and other materials in more than one hundred (100) languages. Do you want to learn Finnish or are you looking for information? events in libraries? Read more about multilingual services.

Books in different languages

You can borrow books from the library in your own language. To borrow, you need a library card.

Read more about how to get a library card.

You can search Helmet for books in your own language and order them to be picked up at any Helmet library. If you can't find books in your language, ask the staff for help.

When looking for books in the most commonly spoken languages in Finland, click on the name of the language. You get directly to the ready-made search, which you can use to find books in your own language.

You can make an acquisition proposal.

Where are the other languages?

Are you looking for material in another language? The multilingual library offers all library users literature in languages rarely spoken in Finland. See if you can find it literature in your own language.

E-material in different languages

You can use e-materials with your library card and PIN.

E-magazines PressReader

Read foreign magazines and newspapers from different countries at home. You can also use the service at home, either in an internet browser or with the PressReader application.

Go to PressReader

Instructions for using PressReader

Audiobooks, music, videos and online courses

Promentor online courses

Learn Finnish

Information about the library

Arabic

Chinese

Estonian

French

German

Italian

Persian, Farsi

Russian instructions (по-русски)

Somali

Spanish

Ukrainian