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Julkaistu

The autumn of Lahti City Library events starts in August.

This autumn's first public event, Mastofestareiden Musakirppis, will be held on Friday the 16th. In the open-air event at the library's yard, there are sold for example discarded records and the afternoon is enjoyed to the rhythm of good music.

The city library offers plenty of different events during the fall, to which everyone has free access. There are familiar reading, craft and writing circles, fairy tales and digital guidance workshops, but there is always room for something new as well.

­– Our goal is to prepare the most versatile, timely and comprehensive set of events for our large customer base every year, says Suvi Haikola, the service manager responsible for the library's events.

Crystal clear encounters are experienced in the autumn program. The author guests in the autumn's events are topical names on the contemporary literature. In the aftermath of the Nordic Literature Week, we get a breath from Iceland, when Satu Rämö, who became very popular with her Hildur series, arrives as a guest writer. Rakel, the fourth part of Rämö's detective series, will be published in autumn 2024.

Satu Rämö as author guest 19.11. at 18–19 p.m. at the Lahti main library. The event will be streamed on the Lahti City Library's YouTube channel (youtube.com/lahdenkaupunginkirjasto, link opens to a new window.), and you can watch the event not only from your own sofa at home, but also in the live streaming seating of the Ahtiala and Nastola libraries on site. (Photo: Björgvin Hilmarsson)

This autumn, topicality can be seen widely in the event selections: not only in the choice of visitors, but also in new, creative collaborations. In September, we will meet journalist-nonfiction author Antti Järvi in ​​the main library. Järvi's work Where did Antti Järvi disappear? (2023) won the Finlandia prize for non-fiction. In the pages of the book, Järvi investigates the fate of his relative who disappeared over the border during the war, and reflects on Finland's historical policy and the consequences of the choices made by individuals. The event is organized in cooperation with Lahti visual arts museum Malva. The Destination exhibition is on running in Malva until November 3, 2024, which tells about leaving and finding something new through the means of contemporary art. During the author's visit, we will discuss Minne katosi Antti Järvi? (Where did Antti Järvi disappear?) and the themes of departure and arrival.

Antti Järvi talks about his work and the themes of his works at the Lahti main library on September 5. at 5:30 p.m. You can also watch the Writers' Night live via the stream on the Lahti City Library's YouTube channel (youtube.com/lahdenkaupunginkirjasto). (Photo: Marek Sabogal)


Library events are an equal opportunity for everyone. They offer an opportunity for participation and access to information, education and culture. Events are organized to promote well-being, versatile literacy and active citizenship.

­– We hope that it is easy to come to library events. In them, we follow the principles of a safer space, with which we aim to guarantee a safe participation experience for everyone. We also still stream some of the visits, so you can watch them from home if you want, promises Haikola.

Events of the main library and local libraries for the period August-December have been collected in the event brochure. The library's event brochure can be picked up at the library or it can also be viewed on the library's website.
Take a look at the event brochure: https://lastufinna.lahti.fi/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tapahtumaesite-2024-syksy_final-2-1.pdf (in finnish language), the link opens in a new tab (PDF not accessible), opens in a new window.

Additional information:

Lahti City Library, Head of Library Services, Suvi Haikola, tel. 044 416 3239, suvi.haikola@lahti.fi

Julkaistu

In the Renkomäki district, the construction works that have started in accordance with the street design planning, will cause changes in the traffic arrangements in August. A detour is used when driving from the direction of Orimattilankatu to the Aura community center's parking lots. The journey from the parking lot to the library takes place as usual. In addition, a detour is also used when accessing with public transport, or other vehicular like bicycles or pedestrian ways when coming from the direction of Lahti and Orimattila.

When traveling by car, it is recommended to use the Renkomäki road. There are signs directing the traffic. Exception routes are in use approximately on August 26. until.

Renkomäki library entrance

Renkomäki library entrance.


Additional information:

Lahti City Library, Terhi Lehti, Head of Library Services, Branch Libraries, tel. 044 483 1513
Terhi.lehti@lahti.fi

Julkaistu

The new mobile library of Lahti city library will soon be ready to serve the municipal residents. You can suggest a name for Lahti's new mobile library on August 7. until.

Lahti's new fully electric mobile library is currently being built. The new mobile library strengthens the library's sustainable and environmentally friendly service development.

Everyone can suggest a name for the new mobile library either online or in all Lahti libraries between July 24 and August 7, 2024. Name suggestions can also be left in the mobile library Pegasos on August 1. from

You can submit a name suggestion in several ways:

  1. You can submit your name suggestion online.
  2. On Lahti Library's social media channels - submit your name suggestion by commenting on a publication related to the topic.
  3. The name suggestion can also give in papersurvey in all Lahti libraries and on 1.8. from now also in the mobile library Pegasos.

    (Note, survey is available only in Finnish, use general translation services offered online or ask help if needed from the library staff).

Sustainable prizes according to the principles of the Lahti library will be drawn among the participants, and the best name suggestion will be awarded.

Lahti's new mobile library is ecological and runs on electricity

Lahti's mobile libraries Eepos, which are at the end of their service life, and Pegasos, which are still on the routes, are slowly being phased out, and the new bus is scheduled to continue as the only mobile library on the Lahti library's routes in the fall of 2024. In addition to its electric drive, the new bus is a low-floor bus, where you don't have to climb stairs. The bus is barrier-free and open to everyone.

Lahti's previous mobile libraries also got their names with the help of a naming contest. Pegasos is currently running Lahti's mobile library and will start its routes again at the beginning of August.

In the picture, the Lahti library cars Eepos and Pegasos in the port of Lahti.
Pegasos and Eepos represented in the port of Lahti. The future colleague of the mobile libraries is still unnamed.

Additional information:
Lahti City Library Library service coordinator,
communications, Nora Nordman phone 044 416 4103 Nora.Nordman@lahti.fi

Julkaistu

Door renovation at the Nastola Library will be completed sooner than expected. Therefore, the normal library entrances and services will be available in the week beginning July 15.

The Nastola Library’s renovations this summer caused changes to the the Library’s entrances and services. In the beginning of July, a snow recess was built at the front door of the Library to prevent problems caused by snow to the operation of the doors in winter.

The renovation, which was expected to take the whole of July, has been completed sooner than expected. So, the Library’s entrances and services will soon be in normal use. From July 15, the Library can again be entered through its own front door. The Library’s self service hours will be available again from July 17. The self-service hours will be available every day from 6:00 to 22:00.

Nastola Library has a more functional front door for the winter. 

Additional information:

Lahti City Library, Terhi Lehti, Head of Library Services, Branch Libraries, tel. 044 483 1513
Terhi.lehti@lahti.fi

Julkaistu

Since the end of June, the Ellibs service has no longer been among the services at the Lastu libraries. Replacing Ellibs as the e-book service, library customers can now use E-library, a joint service of Finnish public libraries, which was opened in the spring.

Lastu libraries have terminated the Ellibs e-book service as the joint E-library was opened. The Ellibs service is no longer available to Lastu library customers.

From now on, the E-library can be used by our customers. More material will be continually added to the service. Lastu library customers can borrow e-books and e-audiobooks and read digital replicas of Finnish magazines using the E-library application, which can be downloaded from the App store of your mobile device.

a person reading an e-book

You will find more detailed information about the e-materials on our web pages: E-materials at the Lastu libraries

Julkaistu

The renovation works at the Nastola Library will cause changes to the library's entrances and services in the summer.

In July, a snow recess will be built at the front door of the Nastola Library. The aim is to prevent problems caused by snow to the operation of the doors in winter. The renovation will start Monday, July 1, 2024, and it will last approximately four weeks.

During the renovation, the library's self-service hours are not available.

The library is open according to the service opening hours:
Mon, Tue and Thu from 13:00 to 19:00 and Wed and Fri 10:00 to 17:00.

You can enter the library through the main door of the Loisto multipurpose building. The door is located on the same side of the building as the library’s front door. Signs guiding you to Loisto’s main door can be found in front of the library.

The renovation is expected to be completed and the self-service hours will be available no later than Monday, July 29, 2024.


Additional information:

Lahti City Library, Terhi Lehti, Head of Library Services, Branch Libraries, tel. 044 483 1513
Terhi.lehti@lahti.fi

between 1 July and 14 July 2024,
Lahti City Library, Johanna Mattila, Head of Library Services, Procurement and Logistics, tel. 044 416 3228 Johanna.Mattila@lahti.fi

Julkaistu

A new green oasis will soon flourish in the yard of the Laune Library because gardening boxes have been brought to the yard as part of the Nature-positive Lahti project.

The Lahti City Library encourages inhabitants of Lahti to be nature positive and for its part, the Library tries to bolster Lahti as an environmental city by making the city greener.  There are now two gardening boxes in the yard of the Laune Library. Lahti residents can grow their own plants in these boxes. Green, urban gardening is a part of a more comprehensive Nature-positive Lahti project, which aims to increase the diversity of nature in the city and make the city greener.

­– The yard of the Laune Library has a new look as gardening boxes have been placed there for Lahti residents. This communal green solution provides local residents with the opportunity to actively participate in the care of urban nature and at the same time enjoy plants they have grown themselves, tells Terhi Lehti, Head of Library Services at the Lahti City Library.

The Library’s yard project, implemented within the framework of the Nature-positive Lahti project, is one of the many measures that aim to improve the quality of life of Lahti residents and enhance sustainable development.  An example of what the project has undertaken earlier is that it has made it possible to increase vegetation in the yards of day care centres. This has led to very positive feedback.

Additional information:

Lahti City Library, Terhi Lehti, Head of Library Services, Branch Libraries, tel. 044 483 1513 Terhi.lehti@lahti.fi

Julkaistu

Activating Indoor and Outdoor Game Backpacks Available for Everyone in the Lahti Libraries This Summer.

The Age Institute provides the Lahti City Library with backpacks full of games and other material to boost your vitality and facilitate indoor and outdoor activities. The backpacks can be borrowed from the Library.

In the Lahti region, there are already more than ten groups involved in the Together in the Neighbourhood Project. In these groups the inhabitants of Lahti can plan different activities to be carried out for example in the recreational facilities or the yards of their apartment houses. In the backpacks you will also find a guide on how to get started with the Together in the Neighbourhood activities.

– We hope that these backpacks will inspire residents of all ages, older people as well as families and groups of friends, to spend time together. In the summer, people are interested in yard games and expect to get instructions for outdoor exercise activities. It’s great that the Library makes it possible the Together in the Neighbourhood backpacks can be borrowed, says Jukka Murto, Together in the Neighbourhood Project Coordinator at the Age Institiute.

Suvi Haikola, Head of Library Services at the Lahti City Library, is also happy about the donation and thinks the game backpacs are well-suited to the Library’s collection.

– The game packpacks are a nice addition to the sports equipment and games the Library already offers, says Haikola.

The loan period for the game backpacks is two weeks.

Additional information:

Suvi Haikola, Head of Library Services, Lahti City Library, 044 416 3239 suvi.haikola@lahti.fi

Read more about the Age Institute and Together in the Neighbourhood Project here.
Jukka Murto, Age Institute Coordinator, 040 552 7100 / jukka.murto@ikainstituutti.fi