The University Library is located at the centre of our campus. The Library is open to students, members of staff and to the public. Learning center, which is the University centre for support and development concerning flexible learning, is also located here.
The Library's mission is to be a competence centre for providing information and for teaching involving IKT-techonology and IKT-teaching methods.
The goal of the Library's instruction in information retrieval is to develop students' information competence. The Library unit Learning Center supports netbased learning and increases users' digital competence.
The Library engages in systematic work with environmental issues and the University of Gävle is environmentally certified according to ISO 14001.
The Library was completed in the year 2005 and has the form of an amphitheatre.
The Library was designed by the architectural firm Tirsén & Aili Arkitekter from Luleå. Construction client was Akademiska Hus Uppsala, and the Library was completed in 2005.
The Library's exterior
The Library has the form of an amphitheatre. Its roof is covered with Sedum plants from the Crassulaceae family. The area of the Library itself is 3 861 square metres and the total area of the building is 5 155 m2.
The Library is located in the middle of the University campus and is named building 23.
The Library's interior
The building offers a range of inspiring and varied indoor environments for different activities from the open, spatial media hall to the low and quiet reading room.
The collections are available on three floors,
On the lower ground floor (floor one), you will find the storage facility with older materials, public print material and older journals.
On the ground floor (floor two), you will find all reading list material, books, journals and the Library counter.
On the first floor (floor 3), there are books, group study rooms, computer work spaces and individual study booths.
On the fourth level, there are group study rooms and individual study booths.
