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2026-06-20 16:38 UTC
@anzah@raphus.social @paavi@mastodontti.fi @scottjenson@social.coop you simply are incorrect about the main library. Pasila still is the main library in Helsinki, even if Oodi is a physically bigger building and a flashier library. It plainly says so also on the Helmet website: https://helmet.finna.fi/OrganisationInfo/Home#84924
What does it mean if something is called the main library? It means a bunch of administrative stuff. Beyond the library services available for customers in Pasila they also have all the cataloguing and handling of new library materials, the logistics center for Helsinki libraries, the Helmet book depository, home base of the two mobile libraries Helsinki has, the national level library services Helsinki has responsibility for (for example the Multilingual Library), and probably a bunch of other centralized services I don't know/remember as someone who works in library but not in Helsinki.
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@anzah@raphus.social 2026-06-20 17:30
@utriaine@mementomori.social @paavi@mastodontti.fi @scottjenson@social.coop I stand corrected as that's authoritative source. I can see why I might have been confused. Oodi is "keskustakirjasto".