Residents were keen to select books in English for the Helsinki City Library in October. The library will order more than 600 books, which will be made available for borrowing in the English collection at Pasila Library.

“We would like to thank everyone who took part in the selection! It was a surprise that so many people participated in the book selection process and that the residents went over the selection lists so carefully”, says Service Supervisor Kirsi Salminen from the Purchase and Cataloguing Office of Helsinki City Library.

The selection trial proved very successful.

“It is really wonderful that people are interested in literature and the collections in libraries. The collection accumulation work requires input from both librarians and patrons. The results were so encouraging that we plan to include residents in the book selection process also in the future”, Kirsi Salminen continues.

Nick Hornby and Tove Jansson most popular

The residents interested in the participatory selection process made a total of 5,084 selection clicks. The selections were targeted at 502 different books.  

Fiction received the most clicks with a total of 3,997 votes. There were a total of 1,787 selections for non-fiction books.

Most selection votes went to Nick Hornby's Funny Girl and Tove Jansson's Moomin collection as well as The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. Harris.

The statistics for the participatory selection are available on the HelMet.fi website.

The library will order a total of 601 copies of 520 books for its collection.

The books will be made available for borrowing in the English collection at Pasila Library. Later they will be moved to the collection of the Central Library, which is already being accumulated.

The arrival of the selected books can be followed online by searching for materials on the HelMet.fi website.

By Maisa Hopeakunnas

More information:
www.helmet.fi
www.keskustakirjasto.fi

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