Libraries and archives

Main library Metso, "Capercaillie", is situated close to Hämeenpuisto Park.

The library provides a basic cultural service, promoting the local people's equal opportunities to adventure and information and encouraging the cultivation of abilities and facilities and the improvement of civic skills. The library offers access to its collections, up-to-date systems of information retrieval, premises and competent staff, all free of charge.

Tampere City Library - Pirkanmaa Regional Library (estb. 1861) consists of a main library, newspaper reading hall, 14 branch libraries, six insitutional libraries, two mobile libraries and the internet bus Netti-Nysse.

Half of the citizens of the City of Tampere (203 000 inhabitants) has a library card and 80 % of the population has said to use the library at least once a year. About 30 000 people use 60 Internet computers in Tampere City libraries. Apart from the physical network of libraries, users are served through the Internet.

Tampere City Library - Pirkanmaa Regional Library

Netti-Nysse Internet bus

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