The NRL collections include monographs and periodicals as well as series in all languages and in all fields: fiction and non-fiction and dissertations. The materials are organised in ‘numerus currens’ sequences (according to the date of arrival).
The National Repository Library’s collections include almost three million catalogued items. NRL receives material from all libraries and information service centres in Finland.
loanable material approx. 103 self kilometres. (31.12.2023)
Monographs approx. 2 195 000
Periodicals approx. 119 300
There is currently music material (24.2.2022 situation) approx. 75,000 titles in the collection (figures rounded to the nearest thousand), of which approx. 31,000 LPs, approx. 24,000 CDs and approx. 20,000 note releases.
The NRL has no systematic classification for its catalogued material. The collections include more material in English (32,1 %) than in any other language. Finnish and German come second and third.
