The Academic Library of Tritonia is a library that serves the educational and research needs of three different

universities A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

in Vaasa,

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...

. These

include

University of Vaasa The University of Vaasa ( fi, Vaasan yliopisto, sv, Vasa universitet) is a multidisciplinary, business-oriented university in Vaasa, Finland. The campus of the university is situated by the Gulf of Bothnia adjacent to downtown Vaasa. The univ ...

, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, and

Novia University of Applied Sciences The Novia University of Applied Sciences ( sv, Yrkeshögskolan Novia) is an institution of higher professional education (vocational university) in Finland. It offers Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's and Master's degree, Master's degree programmes i ...

. The library has units in

Vaasa Vaasa (; sv, Vasa, , Sweden ), in the years 1855–1917 as Nikolainkaupunki ( sv, Nikolajstad; literally meaning "city of Nicholas),

and

Jakobstad Jakobstad (; fi, Pietarsaari) is a town and municipality in Ostrobothnia, Finland. The town has a population of () and covers a land area of . The population density is . Neighboring municipalities are Larsmo, Pedersöre, and Nykarleby. The ...

History and function

Tritonia started as an collaboration between

, the Vaasa branch of Åbo Akademi University, and Hanken Vaasa. The goal was to pool their educational resources in a joint library that could offer the same material, both digital and printed, to all the students and researchers of the respective universities. The first Tritonia building, which is located in the heart of the campus of

, was completed in 2001. In 2010, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences and

joined the collaboration and merged their libraries with Tritonia's. Starting 2021, the Tritonia collaboration includes

, Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, and

. In the summer 2022, Tritonia moved to its current location on campus, the renovated Luotsi building. The collections in Tritonia reflect the curricula of the respective universities. The library provides versatile printed and electronic materials. Printed collections are available for everyone, but e-resources are available mainly for students and staff of our universities and universities of applied sciences within the university network and through remote use. The library also has a collection of textbooks for the current courses held at the universities. The library also has a few special collections that are accessible only through special permission due to the collections' historical and rare nature. Tritonia provides courses on information retrieval for the students and researchers of the universities
Education in Information Literacy
The universities use both Finnish and Swedish, which means that Tritonia's customer service is bilingual. Because a high number of non-native students study in the respective universities,

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national id ...

is also a commonly used language.

References

External links

*http://www.tritonia.fi/ {{Authority control Education in Ostrobothnia (region) Vaasa Libraries in Finland Libraries established in 2001