Building guide

• 24/7 study room

• book locker

• self-service Print/copy device (room LIB-103) 

• Self Check-in device 

• cloakroom 

• lockers 

• café 

• Bindery 

• TalTech Museum 

The Library's main entrance is on the Ehitajate tee street. You can take the stairs or use the lift to get to the second floor. The lift in the foyer, between the cloakroom and the café, only moves between the first and second floor.  

• New books and new journals exhibition (new books stand on every Monday)

• sale of TalTech Publishing books

• circulation desk 

• orders from storage, reservations

• placing orders for instant coping and scanning services  

• Self Check-out device

• self-service scanner 

• self-service print/copy device (coloured device) 

• soundproof phone booth 

• Computer Lab (PC-s) 

• exhibition area 

Books and journals on open shelves:
philosophy, psychology, social sciences, politics, European Union, economy, finance, statistics, organizations and management, accounting, marketing, education, law. 

Newspapers to which the library has subscribed. 

Reference collection 
General reference works, lexicons, biographical lexicons (TE), general directories (TK), language and translation dictionaries (TS) telephone and address books (TK), and bibliographic indexes (TB).  

European Documentation Centre (EDC) collection. 

• circulation desk 

• Self Check-out device 

• self-service scanner

• self-service print/copy device 

• computers 

• individual and group study rooms 

• soundproof phone booth 

Books and journals on open shelves: 
nature, environment protection, mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, zoology, gene technology, medicine, agriculture, fiction

Textbooks for all subject fields – textbooks are only available for borrowing to TalTech students and lecturers.  

• circulation desk 

• self-service scanner

• computers

• individual and group study rooms 

• soundproof phone booth

Extra computers for databases: 

- computer for searching information about building 

- authorized workplace for accessing digital legal deposit copy 
 

Books and journals on open shelves: 
computer science, radio technics, electrotechnics, electrical engineering, electronics, technology of metals, metallurgy, mining engineering, civil engineering, transport, home economics, food technology, light industries, textile industries, timber and woodworking industries, polymers, precision mechanics, automatics, librarianship, information science 

• collection of specific technical documents 

• the collection of Paul Kogerman – Paul Nikolai Kogerman’s collection is composed of books that belonged to the professor. The 4th floor library shelves hold 11 magazines and 213 foreign books from years 1898 to 2004 for reading.  

Quiet Study Area  

No conversation and no phone use are permitted in Quiet Study area. Using the computer's built-in speakers is prohibited. Cell phones must be set to silent mode. All library employees are authorized to resolve any noise complaints. 

• self-service scanner 

• computers 

• group study rooms 

• soundproof phone booth 

• TalTech publishing

Antarctic collection - The donation by Mart Saarso includes items about the Antarctic, the Arctic and their research programs and expeditions and can only be found in TalTech library. The collection includes books about maritime affairs, marine navigation and research. Half of the 220 items are maps and nautical charts.

Map collection - all-around geographical and themed maps collection 

On the 5th floor there are rooms located for library administration, for Information services division (acquisition), for Bibliographic services division, for Development division and for TalTech Publishing division. 

Books and journals on open shelves: 
art, architecture, technical drawing, linguistics, sport, cinema, music, theatre, geography, history, literary studies, fiction, tourism reference book collection, general journals