Inside the caverns, a four-storey concrete structure will be erected to house the books. Lifts and staircases will connect the storage caverns with the library building. The ground level part of the 1954 storage extension will be pulled down. The inner courtyard will be altered. Until now the project has been delayed for economic reasons.
Most faculties have their own libraries.
Within the faculties there are separate departmental libraries. The National Library of Health Science, the Agricultural Library and the Forestry Library also serve as national libraries in their fields. These libraries will also have new buildings. The library building for Health Science is under construction on the Meilahti campus area near the hospitals. The work will be completed at the end of 1997.