[4] The library was planned to be a three-story building and to include a sauna (which hasn't materialised as of 2021[update]) and a ground-floor movie theatre.

[5] In January 2015, the Helsinki City Council voted 75–8 to launch the building project.

[6] On 31 December 2016, it was announced that the new library would be named Oodi in Finnish and Ode in Swedish.

[7] The library was built in the Töölönlahti district next to Helsinki Music Centre and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and inaugurated on 5 December 2018 on the eve of the Finnish Independence Day.

[4][10] The National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) organizes regular archival film screenings at the Kino Regina cinema, located since 2019 in the Helsinki Central Library Oodi.