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Library Services

Library card

You need a library card to borrow.

Create your library card on Tuudo

If you are a student, activate your Tuudo library card without visiting the library. No other library card is needed!

  • Select Library from the Tuudo side menu
  • Click on Add card
  • Select the option "I don't have a library card"
  • Fill in the required fields
  • Choose your pin code and write it down so you remember it

You can use your card for borrowing on the spot. Connect your card with MetCat Finna to be able to make reservations.

Apply for a library card

Fill out a library card application, if

  • you are a new Metropolia staff member
  • you are an external customer (other than a student of Laurea, Metropolia or Haaga-Helia)
  • or the card cannot be created in Tuudo for some other reason.

You can use your card for borrowing on the spot. You need to connect your card with MetCat Finna to be able to make reservations. 

Connect your library card with MetCat Finna

Student: connect your library card with MetCat Finna. After that you can make reservations for printed materials.

PIN code

You need a PIN code for borrowing and for logging in to MetCat Finna with library card information. Forgot your PIN? Reset it on MetCat Finna.

Borrow, renew, reserve and return 

You can borrow printed material from the collections of the Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia libraries. However, not all material can be borrowed. The library also has material that is only available to Metropolia students and staff. Materials that are not loaned to your home can be read in the library. 

You can order material from one Haaga-Helia, Laurea or Metropolia library to another.

Borrow

You need a library card and a personal PIN code for borrowing. The loan period is four weeks or two weeks. One customer can have a maximum of 100 loans at a time. If you already have a maximum number of loans, you will be able to loan (or collect reservations) only after returning some of your loans. 

All campus libraries have self-service stations where you can borrow items. 

Problems with borrowing

Sometimes borrowing is not successful even if your library card is valid and you have entered the correct pin code.

In such cases

  1. There may be a reservation in the book. > Make a reservation in MetCat Finna
  2. You may have fees more than the allowed amount > Pay the fees in MetCat Finna.
  3. The book has a "Not for loan" sticker. > See if there is a copy in the library which can be borrowed.

Renew 

  • Renew your loans in Tuudo or MetCat Finna. You can also call us or send an email.
  • You can renew your loans up to 15 times, unless they have been reserved by another user or unless you have lost your borrowing rights.  

Reserve 

You can order material from one Haaga-Helia, Laurea or Metropolia library to another. You can make reservations in MetCat Finna 24/7.

Return 

Return or renew your loans by the due date.

  • If you return your loans late, you will have to pay overdue fines. 
  • If you do not return or renew your loans in spite of reminders, you will be sent an invoice for replacement items.

You can return your loans to any Haaga-Helia, Laurea or Metropolia library during the service and self-service hours.

  • The self-service station gives a return receipt.
  • If the library is closed, but campus is open, leave your loans in the book return box outside the library door.  The return date will be the next day.

If you have reading disability

IF you have a certificate of reading disability or the right to use Celia's audiobooks, you are entitled to two weeks' loans with a four-week loan period. 

You can be granted extended borrowing rights either when you register as a Celia customer or directly at the library when you present proof of a reading disability.

Want to become a Celia customer?

See the instructions on OMA-intranet

Celia contact persons at Metropolia library 

Arabia: Maarit Koskela
Karamalmi and Myyrmäki: Päivi Karhumetsä
Myllypuro: Saara Vielma and Riina Porttikivi

If we don't have the book you need

Is the book you need not included in our collections? You can make an acquisition proposal or order the book from another library through our interlibrary loan service. 

Library services after graduation

You can continue using library services even after graduation. ""

You need to use either MetCat Finna’s mobile library card or a plastic card. When you graduate, you will no longer be able to use the Tuudo app. Tuudo’s library card will be lost and the school e-mail will cease to work after graduation.

Before graduation 

  • Write down your library card number and save it. 
  • Return your loans if needed and pay your fines, if you have any. 
  • Log in to MetCat Finna to check and update your contact information.

Mobile card 

Log in to MetCat Finna with your library card number and PIN code. MetCat Finna’s mobile card is available in the section Library Cards. 

In the future, you will login to MetCat Finna with the library card number and PIN code. 

Plastic library card 

Come to the library to collect a plastic library card if you don't already have one. You need to have a photo ID with you. At the same time, update your contact information, since the school e-mail will cease to work after graduation. 

In the future, you will login to MetCat Finna with the library card number and PIN code. 

E-collection

You can access the e-materials locally in the library, but no longer be remotely after graduation.

Unregister request

If you wish to delete your information from the library system, please complete and sign the Data subject's request form and submit it in person to one of Metropolia's Student and Admission Services customer service points.

You can find instructions and the request form on Metropolia's website, which is linked below.

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