The library is the faculty library of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Helsinki. The basic collection was donated by the Finnish Veterinary Association in 1945 to the College of Veterinary Medicine, which in 1995 became a faculty of the University of Helsinki. The specific fields of the Veterinary Medicine Library are veterinary medicine and food hygiene.
Literature covering related sciences is acquired on request.
The holdings consist of approximately 65.000 volumes and about 600 journals and periodicals. Foreign PhD theses are received on exchange. Electronic fulltext journals are available through Electronic publications on this homepage. Encyclopedia Britannica Online is also available. The Barnard classification has been used for contents description.