Library of reference literature periodicals and offprints acquired since the establishment of the station in 1912 (1903 - 1910 at Vassijaure a few kilometres to the northwest of Abisko). Biological and earth sciences.

DESCRIPTION OF POLAR COLLECTION: Literature dealing with biological, geographical, ecological topics concerning the Tornetrask area, northern Lapland, Sweden, approximately 18° - 21°E.Long; 68° - 68°45'N.Lat. Library of reference literature in biological sciences and earth sciences. The library contains the accumulated literature and periodicals acquired since 1912.

Additional web address: THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/index.asp?br=ie&ver=4up

National library of Sweden since 1979. Theoretically comprehensive collections for northern Sweden in that it has received deposit copies of all publications printed in Sweden since 1661. Compiles the Swedish national bibliography.

Promotes research projects of various kinds.

DESCRIPTION OF POLAR COLLECTION: The library has a big collection of literature concerning the county of Norrbotten, part of their region Nordkalotten.

Languages: Swedish, Finnish and most of the big western languages.

Additional web address: http://www.ra.se/hla/omlands.htm

Established 1971. Integrated in 1976 with the library of School of Education (originally established 1907).

DESCRIPTION OF POLAR COLLECTION: The books on engineering/ cold climate technology are incorporated in the main collection. The collection of literature on the Arctic Regions of Fenno-Scandinavia is being organized.

Languages: Swedish, English, Finnish, Lappish, Norwegian

Description of collections: Lapps in Russia and in the Nordic Countries. Geographical material about Lapland.

DESCRIPTION OF POLAR COLLECTION: Collections on Lapps, Lappish language. Museum has an exhibition about Lapps.

Staff: 300

Description of Archive or Manuscript Collection: Archive for Norrbottens Museum. Material on culture in Norrbotten, Topographic and systematic.

LIBRARY ARCHIVES:The regional archives (Landsarkiven) were founded in the beginning of the 20th century, and are located in Uppsala, Vadstena, Visby, Lund, Göteborg, Härnösand and Östersund. The city archives in Stockholm keeps the records of Stockholm County, and the archives in Karlstad preserves the records of the county of Värmland.

Description of Archive or Manuscript Collection: The Institute, library included, was built in 1957. Some of the first books and journals were donated from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Sweden. Today the library comprises 550 metres of books, journals and data reports. There is also one archive for the library where we keep our own publication series and some old valuable books. The archive comprises 200 metres of the above mentioned KGI series, reprints and old books. One person 100% and another 50% is in charge of the library including the archives.

Union Lists in which holdings are reported: Bowker Serial Directories

DESCRIPTION OF POLAR COLLECTION: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Atmospheric Electricity and Meteorology, General and Experimental Physics, Electronics, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation, General Space Physics Geomagnetism and Aurora, Mathematics, Datahandling, Plasmaphysics, Rockets and Satellites, Theoretical Physics.

Main language is English. Some in Swedish. Small numbers in German, French and Russian

DESCRIPTION OF POLAR COLLECTION: Subjects: polar regions - Arctic and Antarctic bibliographies; Swedish polar research - all kinds of materials; history of polar research - books; present-day polar expeditions - periodicals, reports, doctoral theses, etc. Antarctic Treaty - meeting documents, exchange of information; handbooks; SCAR - periodicals; reports; CCAMLR-documents; scientific results of Swedish polar expeditions - many subjects; Geographic areas: Arctic and Antarctic

Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, English, German, Spanish, Russian

ACQUISITION POLICY: All bibliographies of interest; Everything connected with Swedish polar research; All polar research journals of interest for the staff and patrons; Monographs analyzing the most important problems of international politics, economics and environmental protection connected with polar regions

DESCRIPTION OF POLAR COLLECTION: Collections on mass balance, glacier hydrology, ice dynamics and glacier fluctuations. This field station, located at 67°55'N, 18°35'E, 1130 m asl, has only a reference library. The main library is in the department in Stockholm.

The Research Archives unit falls directly under the library committee within the organizational framework of the university library and has the following functions: Management: this function involves the responsibility for acquiring and developing archival material and for promoting contacts between researchers and disseminating research information. This includes, for example, following developments in the archival field and the same time taking into consideration the requirements of research and education for archival information.

Loans: The university's borrowing and lending out of material from different archives is handled by the Research Archives. The acquisition of record catalogues from the Swedish National Archives, the Regional Archives in Härnösand and Östersund, and from a number of other sources, greatly facilitates loan possibilities for researchers and students at the university.

Microfiche: There is a great demand for microfilmed material from regional as well as national archives in order to provide information for cultural, social and medical history research and teaching at the university. The Research Archives can produce and acquire material of this nature in collaboration with the National Archives' new unit SVAR (Swedish Archives Information) in Ramsele. In co-operation with SVAR, the Research Archives can also assist with the new microfilming of source materials and in the production of archival information in microfiche format. Equipment: a 16 mm microfilm camera, a photocopier (from microfiche to paper), a number of microfiche readers and computers for local register and on-line searchers in SVARS's data base.

Automatic data processing: In addition, the Research Archives can assist in arranging for computerized data from research projects and data bases in Sweden and abroad to be accessible at the university. This function is being developed in close collaboration with the Demographic Data Base in Umeå. Resources permitting, the research Archives can even offer individual researchers and students certain facilities for developing and using their own data files; above all, on the condition that the Research Archives may document and preserve such data files for future research and the advancement of knowledge. Equipment: personal computers and an optical scanner for importing printed or type-written text and images.

Manuscript collections and library work: The Research Archives' personnel also register and catalogue the university's manuscript collections and deal with the new acquisition and surveillance of archives, especially of persons with Norrlandic origins. This work includes, for example, the building up of collection of reference books and handbooks related in particular to regional and local history.

Was founded in 1928 as a regional library for Tornedalen, that is from Haparanda to Karesuando along the border to Finland. This is an area which is bilingual with Finnish as the mother tongue for quite a few people. This was even more the case in earlier days than it is today when the Swedish language is more and more taking over, The library is working as a public library for the community of Övertorneå, as a regional library for Tornedalen and as a research library for Nordkalotten - that is the northern part of Sweden, Norway and Finland.

DESCRIPTION OF POLAR COLLECTION: Economic and cultural material above 65 degrees latitude. Languages specifically Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian. The polar collection is based upon an old collection called "Svenssonska Samlingen" in Swedish, "The Svensson collection", which was a private collection includes a lot of curiosities. The collection also includes a press cutting collection.

ARCHIVES: ADDRESS:
Tornedalens Bibliotek Archives
Tornedalens Bibliotek,
Box 18
95094 Övertorneå,
Sweden
Description of Archive Manuscript Collection:
Economic and cultural subjects above 65 degree latitude.
Users Policy:
No loans.
Copying Facilities:
Free copying.

Umeå University Library consists of the Main Library (UB), the Research Archives, the Medical Library, the KBC Library and a few departmental libraries.

Additional web address: http://www.ub.umu.se/global/distansstudent.htm