Library users are required to have a library card.
University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Oamk) students can get an electronic library card by downloading Tuudo application for free from Google Play or App Store. Sign in with your university or Oamk account. More information in the Welcome to the library guide for students. Customers who don't use Tuudo, can get a library card in the library by proving their identity. Staff members can also connect an existing card to Tuudo.
Other library users canget a library card in the library by proving their identity. To save time, you can register as customer of the library before coming to the library to pick up your card.
It is advisable to inform the library immediately of a lost library card.
The customer can update their changed contact information by logging in to Oula-Finna. Personal details can be found from Profile -section.
The contact information of University of Oulu and Oamk staff are updated in the library’s user register directly from the human resources information systems of the University of Oulu and Oulu University of Applied Sciences.
University of Oulu and Oamk students can dowload Tuudo application for free from Google Play or App Store. Sign in with your university or Oamk account.
You don't need to visit the library to get the Tuudo library card and you can use it immediately! In Tuudo you can also renew your loans and follow up with your placed requests. See Library in the Tuudo menu bar.
Note! Staff members can also connect an existing library card to Tuudo.
Borrowed items have to be returned or renewed by the due date. The items can be returned to any of the library units. However, we recommend returning items to the unit housing the collection to which it belongs.
When the Library is closed, items from all University Library units can be returned to the libraries' outside returns boxes. Items left in the returns box are checked in on the next date the library is open. Please see Locations of the outside returns boxes below.
Loans must be returned to the library by their due date at the latest. On the due date the items must be returned to the library during the opening hours.
Items can also be returned by post before the due date. However, the customer is responsible for any loss or damage.
Overnight and weekend loan items borrowed from the Reference Library have to be returned no later than 10 o’clock on the next day the library is open. They should be returned to the same service desk that they were borrowed from.
A due date reminder will be sent 3 days before the due date and on the due date. The day after the due date, an overdue notice will be sent by email.
If a book is not returned, the library charges fines on all overdue items. Fines will be collected on the basis of the Act on Criteria for Charges Payable to the State 150/1992 , the Decree on Criteria for Charges Payable to the State 211/1992 and the Ministry of Education Decree on Criteria for Charges Payable to Universities 737/2007.
Pegasus Library: the box is next to the Pegasus Library main entrance (door B), see map.
Medical Library: the box is next to an unobstructed entrance located to the left of the main entrance 7A (see map). Entrance 7A has a sign to this entrance.
Health and Social Care Library: the box is in front of the library and can be accessed during the opening hours of the Paasi building (self-service library users can return loans with the self-service machine in the library).
Oulainen Learning Centre: the box can be found in the hallway next to the entrance of the Learning Centre. Returns can be dropped there during campus opening hours.
Items left in the returns box are checked in on the next date the library is open.
You can place requests for items available for home loan that are checked out to another customer.
If you wish to place a request for an item only available for reading room/researcher loan, please contact the library (students and non-university customers). University of Oulu and Oamk staff can place requests for reading room/researcher loans in Oula-Finna.
When placing requests by e-mail or phone, remember to tell your name and library card number.
There are detailed instructions in the Oula-Finna library catalogue.
You can place requests for items that are not checked out.
For books available for home loan the period is 28 days and for journal issues 14 days.
Items whose call number begins with ”P F” are in the legal deposit archive and they must be requested by placing an on-shelf request in the Oula-Finna library catalogue. Items in the legal deposit archive are only available for reading room or researcher loan.
There are detailed instructions in the Oula-Finna library catalogue.
Printed legal deposit materials are kept in the legal deposit archive in the Pegasus Library. Library users may order the material for their own use (for reading room/research loan) by placing an order through the Oula-Finna online catalogue or at the library service desk.
