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Library

The city of Kokkola offers library services at the Kokkola City Library, the Library bus and at five branch libraries in Koivuhaka, Kälviä, Lohtaja, Ullava and Rahkonen.

Photographer: Tomi Hirvinen

Anders web library eBooking – computer booking Social Media Opening hours and contact information E-library

The E-library

In the E-library, e-books, audiobooks and digital magazines are available in one app. The E-library will contain e-books and audiobooks in Finnish, Swedish and English, and also Finnish magazines. Some materials are also available in other languages by July.

Changes to Anders-libraries’ existing e-resources

Magazines:

  • ePress remote magazines (also Keskipohjanmaa and ÖT) are available until May 31, 2024.
  • There will be no changes to the use of ePress newspapers read in libraries.
  • There will be no changes to the use of PressReader.

E-books and audiobooks:

  • Ellibs will be in use until June 20, 2024. No new material has been acquired since January.
  • Biblio will be in use until May 31, 2024.

Movie services:

  • There will be no changes to the use of the Cineast movie service.

Music:

  • There will be no changes to the use of Naxos Music Library.

Useful information about the E-library

The E-library is so far only available by downloading the app on your phone or tablet.

Using the E-library app for the first time requires strong authentication. After that, the app does not require a separate login.

The customer’s right to use the E-library depends on whether their municipality of residence has joined the E-library. If your municipality of residence according to the Finnish Population Information System has not joined the E-library, you cannot use the E-library services. All Anders municipalities have joined the E-library.

More information is available at e-kirjasto.fi.

  • час українських казок – Storytime for children in Ukrainan

    Storytime for children in Ukrainan at Kokkola City Library, first floor.

    Wednesday February 28th 17.00
    Wednesday March 27th 17.00
    Wednesday April 24th 17.00 – Cancelled
    Wednesday May 29th 17.00

    Free entrance. Welcome!

  • Sense of place

    Art exhibition by Marjaana Hinkka at Kokkola City Library 3-30.5.2024.

    My art exhibition describes places that have influenced me in one way or another. Experienced places are felt; they have their own smell, light, sounds, doing, memories, people and animals.

    The places that hold the most feeling for me are rural. In spring, the event that evokes the most feelings and activities is lambing. The rural and farming includes work related to the cycle of the year, which embody and are a significant part of the sense of place. But what feeling would the place have without sheep? And what does an empty mental hospital feel like? Or what kind of sense of place makes a home?

    The Sense of Place exhibition reflects on places as spaces where the present becomes an inseparable part of earlier events. Past time and events are part of the place, it is impossible to ignore them. In my art exhibition there are small pieces of the sense of place.

    The feeling of a place is described as being formed through experiences and using all the senses. Other people, i.e. the social environment, has an important role in forming meaningful place experiences. (Inc. Tuan, Yi-Fu & Hay Robert)