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 TAMPERE CITY LIBRARY-PIRKANMAA REGIONAL LIBRARY
MAIN LIBRARY METSO
Pirkankatu 2, P.O.B. 152, 33101 Tampere, Finland
Tel. +358 3 565 614
Fax +358 3 5656 4100
www.tampere.fi/kirjasto
tampereen.kaupunginkirjasto@tampere.fi
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OPENING HOURS
Mo-Fri 10.00-20.00 Sat 10.00-16.00
(shorter opening hours in summer)
NEWSPAPER READING HALL
Puutarhakatu 1, Tel. +358 3 5656 4048
open in winter: Mon-Fri 9.00-20.00, Sat 10.00-16.00
(shorter opening hours in summer).
- - domestic and foreign newspapers
- - hundreds of periodicals and magazine
- - Library PressDisplay: a web-based portal which provides access to over 700 newspapers and magazines from more than 78 countries in 39 languages. Available at Tampere City libraries and Newspaper Reading Hall.
--> Location of the Newspaper Reading Hall
SOME GENERAL INFORMATION
WELCOME TO TAMPERE MAIN LIBRARY - CAPERCAILLIE
"Library is the symbol of an information society."
(Professor Reima Pietilä)
Photos of Metso - Main Library :
Photo:Risto Vainio
Stairs to Library
Photo:Maija Kanerva
Entrance Hall
Photo:Maija Kanerva
ARCHITECTURE
MATING CALL
In 1978 a competition was arranged for the design of a new main library. The jury unanimously chose Raili and Reima Pietilä´s work "Mating Call".
The architects said they had been influenced by various elements, such as Celtic ornaments, sheep horns and glacial spin formations. The constructional basic idea was space coiling spirally like the shell of a snail. The form of a bird appeared in the design process. Increasingly, the building began to resemble a large game bird - capercaillie. In fact, the library is known under the Finnish name "Metso". Seen from above, the building looks like a bird carrying a shield.
ENIGMATIC STRUCTURE HIDDEN AMONG VEGETATION
The library building was completed in 1986. Its distinctive symbolism immediately broke new paths in Finnish contemporary architecture.
Most of the challenging construction job was handiwork by the builders of the city engineering office.
The facade materials are granite, copper and wiborgite. The roof and some of the window casements have been overlaid with copper. Concrete and granite are the principal materials inside the building.
The colours of the interior are those of Finnish nature - blue, green and white. The textiles derive their colours from wild flowers, partly also from the plumage of the capercaillie. All the furniture was specially designed for the house.
Metso sits in an urban park environment, partly hidden by vegetation. It is surrounded by Finnish trees and bushes, such as juniper, rowan and spruce.
THE DOME IS A SYMBOL OF OUR OWN UNIVERSE
he interior is a uniform space, where the visitor moves from a place to another like in a town or a forest. Spectacular views open on to the blue, slanting dome, the arching "sails" of the vault and reflections off the bookcase-end mirrors. Everything has a meaning conveying messages from the building as the books and other library materials convey messages from human culture.
Once completed, the main library will be a new landmark and an environmmental work interpreting our age. --- Its forms bend smoothly in the horizontal and vertical direction, like those of a large sculpture. And yet it is a utility article and a building."
(Professor Reima Pietilä)
Architecture and interior design
Architects Raili und Reima Pietilä
Constructor: Tampere City Engineering Office
Total floor area: 11 226 sg.m
Net floor area: 6404 sg.m.
PRIZE-WINNING CONSTRUCTION
Metso was named the Concrete construction of the year in 1985. The carpentry team received a prize from the Construction Development Board for their concrete formwork in 1986. Community planning award was granted by the Association for the Disabled in 1986. The building contractor in charge was nominated the Master Builder of 1986
THE LIBRARY OFFERS
"Library is a democratic meeting place for international and border-crossing contacts."
(Professor Reima Pietilä)
COMPREHENSIVE AND DIVESIFIED COLLECTIONS
Literature in dozens of different language:
- 500.000 volumes of fiction and non-fiction
- an extensive collection of music scores and maps
Recordings :
- music, talking books, language courses, CD-ROM publications, video cassettes
- microfilms of parish registers and newspapers
Newspapers and periodicals :
hundred of periodicals on various fields
- all newpapers and part of the periodicals are available in the Newspaper Reading Room at Puutarhakatu .
Much else :
- Pirkanmaa collection - an abundant supply of egional information
- PIRKITTA - regional database
- Poland collection
- a collection of newspaper articles on writers
ONLINE-SERVICE
Lending/return
- on-line lending/return
Information service
Each department has its own service providing information from the library´s own collections as well as national registers
Inter-libray lending
- provides material from other libraries
PREMISES AND FACILITIES
- access to Internet
- various registers, indexes and databases
- rooms for fairy-taile, music listening and playing (piano, electric piano)
- microfilm reading room
- copying machines
- quiet reading room
- exhibition space, meeting rooms, auditoriums, study rooms
- fairy-tale reading room with a puppet theatre
- information on current events and topical subjects
- notice board, information material
- special subject weeks, exhibitions, lectures
- various cultural activities for adults and children
Vestibule services, Tel. 5656 4001
- auditorium bookings, order forms, information on events through the attendants
Group visits and tours
- Appointments for guidance
tel. +358 3 565 614
Cafeteria
- open during the main library opening hours:
bookings for groups and meetings tel. +358 3 222 7792
SPECIAL INFORMATION FOR THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
- four parking spaces for invalid vehicles
- gentle ramp to the entrance: the front door and lift door operated by intercom or your own remote control; the lift works in the same way
- WC for the handicapped on every floor
- no thresholds; public telephone accessible from a wheel-chair
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