Library
Our library serves our students, personnel and customers. Our collection includes a wide range of notes, books, recordings and magazines.
The art library Sigyn, which is shared by Turku Conservatory and the Academy of Arts of Turku University of Applied Sciences, has plenty of musical notes and literature from different fields of art. Our customers have access to computers and a multifunction printer. You can also read the daily newspaper in our library (Turun Sanomat, Helsingin Sanomat). You can use the library’s information retrieval machine to also read many other magazines through the ePress service.
The library of the Academy of Arts of the Turku University of Applied Sciences operates in the same facilities as us. Its library collections contain a wide range of art and cultural material in both printed and digital formats. Thanks to licences, Turku Conservatory students can also use the Naxos Music Library and Oxford Music Online at the library.
You can become a library customer by verifying your identity and filling in the customer information form. The library’s customer register is a personal data register in accordance with the Personal Data Register Act, which is used only to manage the library’s customers’ loan data. We do not disclose this data outside the library.
Opening hours and loan periods
Self-service Mon–Fri at 8–20. You will need a library card to access during self-service hours (or mobile card) and a PIN code.
Opening hours during the semester:
Mon 11–17
Tue 12–16
Wed 12–16
Thu 12–16
Fri 12–14
Special opening hours:
- 30 April 12–14,
- 1st of May library is closed
- Wed 28 May 12–14
- Ascension Day 29 May library is closed
- 2 June – 10 August only self service
Loan periods:
- Recordings, audiovisual material and magazines: 14 days
- Books and notes: 28 days
Late loans are charged €0.30 per item per day. Damaged or lost material must be compensated.
Library rules
Read the more detailed rules of the Turku Conservatory library. They are similar to the rules of the Turku University of Applied Sciences library.
Rules of the Turku Conservatory library (in Finnish)
Useful links
Works by the best-known composers of artistic music
How are the names of Russian composers written in Finnish text, for example? Šostakovitš, Chostakovitch, Schostakowitsch, Shostakovich or Sjostakovitj?
Such as IMSLP Petrucci Music Library and Vaccai
Further information:
Silja Hammo
Music librarian
tel. +358 40 1826 738
silja.hammo(at)turunkonservatorio.fi