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Self-service library

The self-service library is open daily 7.00 – 21.00, also at weekends.

Rules of use of the self-service library

You can access the self-service library by scanning your OUTI library card on the login device and entering the PIN code, which will unlock the electric door. Each visitor must use their own card to access the library. The age limit for the self-service library is 16 years. Customers under the age of 16 can visit the self-service library together with a guardian without their own library card. Children and young people under the age of 16 can use their own library card to access the self-service library only with the consent of their guardian. The guardian must visit the library in person to register their consent in the system and provide proof of identity. The guardian is responsible for the use of the self-service library by a child accessing it using the child’s library card.

A customer who has accessed the library is responsible for their own behaviour and that of others accompanying them and is liable for any damage caused by the customer as well as for that caused by the persons accompanying him or her to the library or entering the library at the same time as the door is open. The guardian is liable for the behaviour of and any damage caused by an underaged customer. The guardian is also liable for any damage caused by persons entering the self-service library with the child.

During self-service hours, customers can reserve material using the information search computer, collect reservations from the reservation shelf and borrow and return material at the lending and return machine. Customers can also read, work, spend time or use the customer computers in the library. It is not possible to borrow works of art, pay charges, obtain a new library card or use the customer printers during self-service hours.

An announcement will be made about the start and end of self-service hours and about the presence of staff. When the service hours change to self-service, customers must go to the scanning device next to the main entrance of the library and log in.

Users of the self-service library undertake to comply with the rules of OUTI libraries and to keep the premises neat and tidy during their visit. Customers must ensure that the door locks both when entering and when leaving the library. Customers must leave the library premises immediately when the self-service hours end. If the customer triggers the alarm, the customer is liable for the costs of a false alarm.

The library is a public space and subject to the provisions of the Public Order Act [612/2003]. Violation of the rules may result in the temporary loss of the right to use the self-service library. These rules include the rules for the use of the self-service library, the general rules for the use of the library, the Public Order Act and the safer space policy of Pyhäjoki Library.

Video camera surveillance is in use to monitor the safety of the self-service library. In addition, the library card information of each person logging in to access the library is recorded in the self-service library system.