The FIIA library is a specialised facility which supports the Institute's research activities and whose collections are at the disposal of anybody interested in international relations and foreign policy.

The library contains over 21 300 volumes. It subscribes to or receives on an exchange basis some 250 periodicals and newspapers. Older annual volumes of periodicals are kept in the Institute's archives.

The collections focus on the topics of Finnish foreign policy, international politics, changes within Europe, Finland's neighbouring regions, and disarmament.

Books, but not periodicals, can be borrowed. The borrowing period for books is four weeks. Interlibrary loans are confined to sending article copies only.

The library does not maintain regular opening hours. Customers are advised, instead, to always make an appointment before their arrival. Contact: tel.: +358 20 6111 708 (Jouko Rajakiili, librarian), or e-mail: jouko.rajakiili(at)upi-fiia.fi.

The library's book collections are catalogued electronically into a PrettyLib library system. An article database for incoming periodicals has been in operation since autumn 1995. This article database, for the years 1995-2005, is available as a part of the EINIRAS EDN database at the following address: http://einiras.coe.int