Services for early childhood education

On this page you can find the services offered by the library for early childhood education.

Printable brochure: Library services for early childhood education 2024-2025

Services offered to early childhood education groups

The library's children and youth department offers the following services to early childhood education groups:

•  First time for pre-schoolers / library visit in fall or spring / 1 h
  • A playful introduction to library services
• Story time for the kindergarten group / 1 time / operating year
• Book package / 2 packages / group / operating year

Story time

Kindergarten groups can order a story time from the children and youth department. Story times are held one / group / year of operation. Groups can also hold a self-paced story times in the library's Story Room by reserving the space in advance from the children's and youth department.

Book packages

The children's and youth department collects, borrows and delivers, upon request, materials from the children's department to the early childhood education groups in Riihimäki according to the group's wishes.

The loan period for books is three months, for music recordings and audiobooks one month. Borrowing requires that the group has so-called community card for Riihimäki city library. More detailed information about acquiring a community card can be obtained from the library. A maximum of 2 packages per operating year will be collected and delivered to the same group.

The city's contracted courier transports the book packages to units owned by the city of Riihimäki. The return transport must be ordered by the daycare/preschool itself from the dispatcher via text message. The sender's phone number comes with the bags. Private entities can pick up the package from the children's and youth department's counseling service.

Self-service visits for borrowing

Groups can visit the library independently on weekdays from 9 am. Customer service starts at 11 a.m., but the staff of the children's and youth department serve early childhood education groups even before that.