Tips

The 2021 Helmet Reading Challenge highlights nature and animals, introduces professions that no longer exist and gets you to read outdoors.

The Helmet Film Challenge invites and challenges you to broaden your horizons and to look for new experiences on film: the classics, cult favorites – or perhaps, the films that you have been meaning to watch for a long time.

Helmet Music Challenge 2021

A Film Challenge for the whole family.

Helmet Game Challenge 2021

The Reading Challenge is about the excitement of searching for a suitable book and about playing, discoveries and inspiration.Ready, steady, read!

Helsinki City Library will be organising a writing contest for young people and adults around the theme of hope.  

Illustrator Riku Ounaslehto has designed the new fairytale-like illustrations of the new Stoori mobile library in Helsinki. His favourite motifs include animals and plants, which are also featured in Stoori’s illustrations.

In addition to Helmet e-library, there are thousands of free e-books and audiobooks available on the Internet. This article offers some tips on where to start looking for e-books in English.

When the world around us becomes strange, where the news floods us from a place that feels threatening and the familiar everyday life feels like just a distant dream, one can take comfort and connect with other people in literature, writing and especially poetry.

A podcast, where the services and content offered by the library are opened in a listener-friendly way.