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\section{New library and new collection policies}  Helsinki University Library was born in 2010 as a merger of all the faculty, department and other library units of the University of Helsinki. It is an independent institute at the university, with its own 24,3 M€ annual budget (2013), about 220 employees and almost two million annual visits. There were 81 shelf kilometers of printed collections held by four campus libraries. Electronic resources have been increasing rapidly and comprised 33,300 e-journal titles and 356,400 e-books (2013).  The new home for astronomy materials is Kumpula Campus Library, right at the heart of the largest science campus in Nordic Countries. The collections cover mathematics, statistics, computer science, chemistry, physics, geophysics, meteorology, astronomy, geosciences and geography. Several department libraries had been merged with the Campus library, which was opened in 2000. The observatory collections were the last to arrive to compete for the remaining shelf space. When 388 sleft metres of printed astronomy journals were brought in from the Observatory, most major physics journals had been e-only already for several years.   New library and There was soon a  new collection policies trend to increase efficiency and to reduce the cost of storing "passive" printed materials. It was decided that Kumpula Campus library would be completely renovated into a somewhat smaller unit. Some 40\% of printed collections were sent away -- mostly to the National Repository Library. The 388 shelf meters of astronomy journals melted down into 86 shelf meters in the process. All journals were stored in moving boxes for more than a year, from autumn 2013 on.