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Service charges


The Library of Parliament's Service Charges as of 1.1.2007.

Free services

  • use of collections and catalogues, borrowing and library card
  • reservations and notices
  • self-service electronic information sources
  • individual enquiries and checks and brief information searches
  • advice concerning information searches and the use of information sources
  • open information management training
  • interlibrary loans
  • loans to post-graduate researchers in the fields of parliamentary information, legal information or social and political information
  • library presentations for groups  
  • public documents in electronic form delivered by e-mail

Services subject to charges

Extensive information searches and/or special commissions
- Customers will be informed of charge in advance
- Delivery period max. 3 days + mailing or by agreement
€ 50/hour
Scanning and digitizing of archive material
- material protected by copyright is not digitised
€ 50/hour
or according to the difficulty of the task
Paper copies made by the library
- sent by post
- sent by fax
- Delivery period max. 3 days + mailing
50 cents/page
€ 11/each batch up to 20 pages
Charge for lost or damaged work
€ 60 or according to invoice
Only charges over €10 are collected.
More information
The Library of Parliament's core customers
1. Members of Parliament
2. Parliamentary officials
3. Parliamentary groups' offices
4. Members of the European Parliament
5. Other parliaments
6. Office of the President of the Republic
7. Finnish Government

All services are free of charge to core customers.