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Tartu Public Library is an active and innovative library, highly visible both on Estonian cultural and library landscape. It was founded in 1913. It has a central library, three branch libraries, a stationary circulation unit and home service. There are about a hundred people working at the library. Tartu Public Library is an information centre, which main task is to offer our users information on all modern media. In 2008 the library had more than 35 000 registered users and over 2000 visits a day. The library offers cultural events and entertainment to the users, organizing book and art exhibitions, concerts, meetings with writers, fairy tale mornings for children, monthly book café, annual events: seminar on original Estonian children’s literature, literary festival Prima Vista, Fairy tale day, Nordic library week, celebration of Estonian Book Day, Russian literature week, etc. In 2007 Tartu Public Library website was reorganized, changing it from being a webmaster-operated website into a specialist-operated website, meaning that over 30 librarians at our library enter the information from their field of expertise and interest to library website, making it more dynamic and offering Estonian colleagues and users access to valuable information about culture and literature.
| Address: Kompanii 3/5
51004 Tartu
Estonia Phones: Secretary: 736 1370
Chief Librarian: 736 1371
User Registration: 736 1375
Lending Department - non-fiction: 736 1382
Lending Department - fiction: 736 1384 (2nd floor)
- fiction:736 1385 (3rd floor) E-mail:
oskar@luts.ee |  |
Visitor
You do not have to have a visitor's card to browse at the library, but you need one to borrow the materials and to use the computers at the library. You can obtain a visitor's card at the registration office on 1st floor and all departments. Opening hours
| | Mon-Fri | Sat | Sun | User Registration
Phone : 736 1375 | 9 - 20 | 10 - 16 | Closed | Periodicals Reading Room
Phone : 736 1381 | 9 - 20
| 10 - 16 | Closed | Lending Department : nonfiction
Phone : 736 1382 | 9 - 20 | 10 - 16 | Closed | Lending Department : fiction
Phone : 736 1384 (2 nd floor), 736 1385 (3 rd floor) | 9 - 20 | 10 - 16 | Closed | Service Outside the Library
Phone : 736 1386 | 9 - 17 | Closed | Closed | Dept. of Estonian Exile Literature
Phone : 736 1395 | 9 - 20 | 10 - 16 | Closed | Dept. of Technical Literature
Phone : 736 1392 | 9 - 20 | 10 - 16 | Closed | Dept. of Music Literature
Phone : 736 1394 | 9 - 20 | 10 - 16 | Closed | Children's Department
Phone : 736 1390 | 9 - 20 | 10 - 16 | Closed | Internet Room
tel: 736 1379 | 9 - 20 | 10 - 16 | Closed |
Branch libraries: | | Mon-Fri | Sat | Sun | Tammelinn Library
56 Suur Kaar
Phone : 746 1035, 746 1036 | 9 – 20 | 10-16 | Closed | Karlova-Ropka Library
16 Tehase
Phone : 730 8472, 730 8473 | 10 - 19 | 10-16 | Closed | Annelinn Library
23 Kaunase
Phone : 746 1040, 746 1041 | 9-20 | 10-16 | Closed | | | | | |
The library is closed on national holidays:
New Year’s Day – 1 January
Independence day – 24 February
Good Friday – 10 April
Easter Holiday – 11 - 12 April
Spring Holiday – 1 May
Whitsunday – 31 May
Victory Day – 23 June
St John’s Day – 24 June
Independence Restoration Day – 20 August
Christmas Holidays – 24-26 December Price list
Photocopying size A4: 1 kroon per page
Photocopying size A3: 1 kroon 50 cents per page
Booking the use of computer in advance: 10 kroons per hour
Internet print: 1 kroon per page
Fine for missing the return date established by library:
- adults: 1 kroon per loan for every delayed workday
- children under 16: 10 cents per loan for every delayed workday
Recurrent issue of new library card: 25 kroons
Bar code replacement: free
Compensation for lost or damaged book:
book bought after 1992: (max) 10 x registration price
book bought before 1992: (min) 50 kroons
Rent prices:
Rent per hour for hall with 75 places: (max) 200 kroons
Rent per hour for hall with 25 places: (max) 100 kroons
(Established by Decree of Tartu City Government No. 51, 12. December, 2008.) Translated by Tiina Tarik
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