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What is the current situation of school libraries in Finland? Are there school libraries in all primary/secondary schools or is it up to each school or… 6 Surprisingly it seems there is no complete database of school libraries in Finland. Libraries.fi-site, which lists almost all libraries in Finland, when using the key word koulukirjasto, only gives three school libraries: in Lieto (Keskuskoulun ja lukion kirjasto) and Ilmarinen and Tarvasjoki (which both belong to the of City of Lieto). However, according to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021, there was a school library in 67 % of schools (Leino).Municipalities can decide independently whether to have libraries in schools or not. The law (Section 47 § Supportive activities) merely suggests that "library, club and other activities closely relating to education may be arranged In conjunction with basic…
I borrowed an instrument from library and broke a string while playing , I have replaced it and tuned it with a similar string. did i break any laws or what… 26 No, everything's fine. :)
I am conducting academic research and would like to request recent documents or statistical reports that evaluate the level and quality of education in Finland… 40 You find Statistics Finland’s education and research statistics here: https://stat.fi/en/topic/education-and-research.Vipunen is the Finnish Education Statistics Portal maintained by the Ministry and the Finnish National Agency for Education. It offers statistics on students, degrees, finances, etc: https://okm.fi/en/statistics. Here you have an overview of the key characteristics of the education system in Finland: Education at a Glance 2025: Finland (https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2025_1a3543e2-en/finland_d8f44a5b-en.html).Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC / Karvi) conducts national evaluations across all education levels: https://www.karvi.fi/en/publications.If you're interested in policy…
Is it possible to get this book sent to Jyväskylä library? https://finna.fi/Record/vaari.1732406?sid=5113433067 And would it cost anything for me? Thank you!… 51 Hello!And thank you for your question.Yes, you can reserve the book, and it will be sent here to Jyväskylä. You can do this yourself here: https://keski.finna.fi/Record/vaari.1732406?sid=5120287317&lng=en-gbOr send a reservation request to the library's interlibrary loan service: https://www.jyvaskyla.fi/en/library/using-library/interlibrary-loansLoans from the National repository library cost 4 euros per book. 
I would like to suggest a new acquisition for Helmet Libraries. The book is: False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and… 46 You can submit an acquisition request to the library via this link.Acquisition request | helmet.fi
What are hemp hearts in Finnish? 159 Hemp hearts are hulled hemp seeds. In Finnish they are called as "kuorittu hampunsiemen". 
I am looking for any and all materials about Antii Isotalo. He's a bit infamous in my family, as I have been told he is an ancestor. All I really know is from… 86 There are actually three famous Finns by the name of Antti Isotalo: the farmer and knife-fighter Antti Heikinpoika Isotalo or Isoo-Antti (1831 - 1911), his grandson Antti Isotalo (1895 - 1964), and the unrelated preacher Antti Matinpoika Isotalo (1824 - 1906). Since the first two have English Wikipedia pages, I assume you mean either of them.Unfortunately, there is not much information available in English about these men, apart from the Wikipedia pages. The blog Your Roots uses Antti Heikinpoika Isotalo as an example in demonstrating how to use Finnish genealogy records, so there is some information about him in this and this blog entry, as well as some of the subsequent ones.Finnish online resources include the National Biography of…
I see that helmet library tamil books collection is very limited. I would like to donate modern new tamil books written by modern writers like Jeyamohan,… 127 Thank you for your kind thought and offer! I suggest to contact Multilingual Library, which locates in Pasila Library, and offer donations there.You can contact Multilingual library directly via e-mail: monikielinen.kirjasto@hel.fiYou can find more information about Multilingual library here:https://www.libraries.fi/multilingual-library?language_content_entity=en https://helmet.finna.fi/OrganisationInfo/Home?lng=en-gb#84923
I am living in Germany and have just started to study Finish language. Is there a possibility to access e-books, especially picture books and books for younger… 81 The libraries' e-book service requires Finnish domicile. You can use paid e-book services, e.g. https://www.storytel.com/fi and https://www.bookbeat.com/fi.  The services usually have a free one-month trial
I want to recommend the library to purchase books. I heard about this service. But I do not know where I can do it. Could you help me? Thanks. 123 You can make make an acquisition request for an item Helmet Libraries collection are missing:https://helmet.finna.fi/Feedback/Form/AcquisitionRequest
90 täyttävä isovanhempani muistaa 50 -luvun lopun tai 60 -luvun alussa Seura-lehdessä olleen kirjoituskilpailu tai vastaava, jossa lukijat saattoivat lähettää… 127 Pasilan kirjastossa pitäisi olla varastossa vanhoja Seura-lehtiä. Niitä ei saa kotilainaksi, mutta niitä voi pyytää kirjaston henkilökunnalta luettavaksi lehtienlukualueelle. Täältä löytyvät Pasilan kirjaston yhteystiedot: https://helmet.finna.fi/OrganisationInfo/Home#84924Voisikohan haastattelu löytyä helpommin kysymällä suoraan Seura-lehden toimituksesta, täältä löytyvät yhteystiedot: https://seura.fi/toimituksen-yhteystiedot/Oletteko yrittäneet etsiä kappaletta Fenno - Suomen Äänitearkiston haulla? Kokeilkaa hakea Eila Pellisen nimellä, sillä tulee lista kappaleita, joita esittänyt ja niissä tarkemmat tiedot sanoittajista ja julkaisuvuosista, voisikohan etsimänne kappale löytyä sieltä? Tässä linkki hakuun: https://fenno.musiikkiarkisto.…
I am looking for the e-book version of the sole commentary with the following bibliographic details: Bibliographic information Title: Guide to the Finnish… 145 Unfortunately, the book is not available for the public use. You have to buy a license to read it. For example, in our library one can read the book inside parliament's own network, because we have bought the license to use it. Only options are commercial e-book bookshops, like: https://www.kauppakamarikauppa.fi/collections/juridiikka-kirjat/products/opas-keskuskauppakamarin-valimiesmenettelysaantoihin-guide-to-the-finnish-arbitration-ruleshttps://lakitieto.edita.fi/verkkokauppa/rikos-ja-prosessioikeus/rikos-ja-prosessioikeus-kirjat/guide-to-the-finnish-arbitration-rules/ 
Is it possible to donate books in Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian and Ukrainian to Pasila Library? 450 It is possible to offer books that are in good condition as donations to Helmet libraries. However, there are two things to keep in mind here:First, the books aren't donated directly to any particular library — rather, the books "float" between all the libraries of the organization, so even if a book is initially received by, say, Pasila library, the book might well end up in the shelves of various other libraries in the area.Second, the library only accepts the books it judges there would be sufficient demand for, so the library might be somewhat picky when it comes to book donations — the main reason for this is is the fact that the library has to remove thousands of books every year from its collections in order to make room for new…
I would like to view the number of book borrowers in “each” public library of Helsinki for the year 2019 87 The public libraries of Finland release each year public data about all kinds of things at https://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/.The data can be sorted so that you can see the data of all the Helsinki libraries collectively, but unfortunately you can't see data of each individual library (e.g. Pasila library, Oodi library, etc...). If you are interested in the data relating to the number of borrowers and loans of the public libraries of Helsinki collectively in 2019, you can find it here: https://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/?orgs=400&years=2019&stats=104%2C110%2C111#resultsAs of now, the data relating to each specific library has to be extracted from our library system manually, and if you are interested in such data, you can try contacting…
I'm looking for a regional variation of the lullaby, "Tii tii tikanpoika..."sung in the area around Sysma where my grandmother was born in 1879. I learned it… 106 In 2022 somebody asked a question, regarding the same song. Here is the answer: I am looking for the Finnish lyrics to a lullaby about a bad shepherd boy who stole a child's turnip. Thank you! | Ask a Librarian (libraries.fi) 
I’m a foreigner, I would like to visit a library here in Finland. And the thing is if I use a space or a table and have my own art materials with me to do some… 117 Hello,starting point is that all services in public libraries are free of charge. Still here in Finland there are little differences how libraries run their space etc. reservation policy. This is due every city, county or region have more or less their own library networks and therefore their individual ways to organize services.  I suggest you to contact the library where you want to work at and ask about their services and space etc.. Give a call or contact service desk for some libraries don't have space to be reserved. In some libraries card is needed and in some it´s not, I´d guess depending nature of necessity and type of the space.  For a library card photo identity card is needed.Since you addressed your question here in…
I saw the Stormskerry Maja film yesterday and wonder if any of Anni Blomqvist's books are available in english ? 347 Unfortunately, none of Anni Blomqvist's novels have been translated into English.
I am a FI-EN translator and I'm looking for a Finnish idiom dictionary, a Finnish equivalent of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms. Do you know whether such a… 160 There is no monolingual dictionary of Finnish idioms as comprehensive as The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms available. The only similar book would be Naulan kantaan : nykysuomen idiomisanakirja (Otava, 1993). Though not quite what you are looking for, the phrasal dictionary Suurella sydämellä ihan sikana : suomen kielen kuvaileva fraasisanakirja (Gummerus, 2008) covers many Finnish idioms.You might also find the following bilingual dictionaries useful: Suomi-englanti idiomi- ja fraasisanakirja (Art House, 2007)Bird in the hand is worth kymmenen oksalla : 50 Finnish/English idioms in English and Finnish (WSOY, 2002)Parempi pyy pivossa kuin two in the bush : 50 Finnish idioms in English and Finnish = 50 englantilaista idiomia suomeksi…
My family has few books that would like to donate, give them further. Does the main library from Jyväskylä accepts book donations? 75 I'm sorry, but Jyväskylä City Library no longer accepts book donations. The main library has a special shelf for customers, where you can bring unnecessary books and take the ones you want from the shelf. You can only bring a few books to the shelf because there is limited space. The book exchange shelf is on the 1st floor of the main library next to the elevator.
We are collecting library usage statistics from different cities and hope you could help us with following question: As of the… 71 The Finnish Public Libraries Statistics can be read online, https://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/index.php?lang=en Here is the table created with choices Helsinki City Library, Collections, 2023, https://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/?orgs=400&years=2023&stats=183#results