I'd like to know about the budget of Oddi Library.
I am a student studying library and information science in Korea. I'd like to know about the budget of Oddy Library.
Don't you reveal specifically how the budget is spent on books and manpower?
Answer
It seems there is no public access to the budgets of individual libraries but they are easily revealed by asking the right person. Library Director of Oodi Anna-Maria Soininvaara told that they are using approximately 3 600 000 euros to the staff this year. For books, however, there is no separate budget because in Helsinki we have a so called floating collection. It means the whole collection is shared between all libraries and therefore there is a common budget for all material, except for magazines and newspapers. For those Oodi's budget is about 40 000 euros.
It is possible to check Finnish libraries' budgets by a city level but not by a single library unit on the site Finnish Public Libraries Statistics . Those statistics only reveal how much has been spent on books and staff in the whole Helsinki City Library. Last year (2022) the amount spent on books was 2 294 325 euros.
Ref:
Suomen yleisten kirjastojen tilastot. Finnish Public Libraries Statistics. https://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/. (12.12.2023)
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