Is it possible to donate books in Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian and Ukrainian to Pasila Library?

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Hello! is it possible to donate books in Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian and Ukrainian to Pasila Library?

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It is possible to offer books that are in good condition as donations to Helmet libraries. However, there are two things to keep in mind here:

First, the books aren't donated directly to any particular library — rather, the books "float" between all the libraries of the organization, so even if a book is initially received by, say, Pasila library, the book might well end up in the shelves of various other libraries in the area.

Second, the library only accepts the books it judges there would be sufficient demand for, so the library might be somewhat picky when it comes to book donations — the main reason for this is is the fact that the library has to remove thousands of books every year from its collections in order to make room for new ones, and as one might expect, this takes quite a bit of work.

What I primarily recommend to anyone planning on donating books to the library is the following: send us information via email (for instance, the email of Pasila library: tietopalvelu.pasila@hel.fi) about the books you would be willing to donate so that we can virtually tell you which of the books we might be interested in obtaining (remember to attach information of the exact edition of book; the easiest way is to attach the ISBN-number of the books). But you can also just physically bring the books to various libraries — in this case you should notice, however, that the library might put the books it isn't interested in adding to its collections to its "recycling shelf", from which anyone can take the books for themselves.

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