| Dear Wonderful Librarian: I am an English-speaking student studying Finnish, and I was wondering if you could direct me to a list of books suitable for a… |
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3.11.2008 |
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I presume that you are writing from Minnesota. If so, how do you intend to acquire these books? We have an interlibrary loans department here in the Helsinki City Library. You can go to your local library and asked them are they willing to make these interlibrary loan requests from Finland. Postal costs can be inhibitive but if you are willing to make that investment, we are more than willing to send you these books. We have no ready list of these books, but books that would fall within the scope you described are called “selkokirjat” in Finnish, in other words, books with somewhat simplified syntax and vocabulary. You can go to our bibliographic database and by using the advanced search and write in the search field selkokirjat, then… |
| I'm a student from Korea in Library of Information Science major. Now, I'm doing the research of CDRS, especially the status of CDRS of OECD countries, so I… |
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28.10.2008 |
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In Finland we have a national Collaborative Digital Reference Service, which is the (1.) Ask a Librarian, situated in Libraries.fi, (10.) http://www.libraries.fi/ask_librarian . It functions in (9.) three languages, Finnish, Swedish and English, of which the two first are official languages in our country. Our (2.)software is a product specially made for our use upon a programme basis named Meteor. It is planned and produced in Finland by Sininen Meteoriitti, Blue Meteorite, http://www.meteoriitti.com/, in cooperation with an other Finnish firm Connexor, which is specialised in semantic web tools. (3.-4.-5.-6.-7.) Our service in an email-service, the questioner sends his question on a webform and gets the answer in to his email within… |
| "Semantic Relation And Its Application to Information Science". Please give some reference or the links on that for my Seminar. |
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23.10.2008 |
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You might find the following references useful.
Daconta, Michael C.: The Semantic Web : a guide to the future of XML, Web services, and knowledge management (Indianapolis (Ind.) : Wiley , cop. 2003)
Hurford, James R. The origins of meaning (New York : Oxford University Press , cop. 2007)
Information modelling and knowledge bases XIX (Amsterdam : IOS Press , cop. 2008)
Semantic Web services : theory, tools, and applications (Hershey : Information Science Reference , cop. 2007)
Stuckenschmidt, Heiner: Information sharing on the semantic web (Berlin : Springer , cop. 2005)
Here's also a master's thesis from The department of information studies, University of Tampere:
Pursiainen, Tanja´: Modelling the frontier : cross-cultural ontology… |
| Could you please kindly advice where we could find the relevant documents of public library services standard and guidelines of public library assessment,… |
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17.10.2008 |
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The following web-site contains a wealth of information concerning the Finnish library system:
http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/
The article titled Public libraries in Finland / Ministry of Education is of special importance in terms of the guidelines set for the libraries. You should also check the following web-site: http://www.libraries.fi/info
I hope that the abovementioned web-sites will provide the information you are looking for.
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| I'm interested in learning about the classification system used in your library |
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13.10.2008 |
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You do not specify the library whose classification system you would like to know about. Do you mean the classification systems in Finnish libraries in general?
There are several classification systems used in different libraries in Finland. First of all, to get a general idea about the Finnish library system, please have a look at http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/ , where you will find access to basically every library in Finland, along with their web OPACs (open public access catalogues).
Roughly, one could say that the public libraries here use the Finnish Public Libraries Classification System (PLC) and the scientific and university libraries use the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC). This would nevertheless give an oversimplified… |
| Can you tell me when were the first public libraries appeared in Finland? And where they were built? Thank you. |
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13.9.2008 |
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Public libraries in Finland celebrated their bicentennial in 1994. The founding meeting of the Vaasa Reading Society in the Province of Ostrobothnia on the west coast of Finland took place on the 2nd of August 1794. Although the reading Society was originally meant for its members and partners, other people were also allowed to borrow books for payment. The Reading Society in Vaasa was thus both a "proprietary" and "subscription" library. (Ilkka Mäkinen: Reading Societies in Finland, in Yleiset kirjastot Suomessa. Vaasa 1994, p.104)
The library of the Vaasa Reading Society can be considered to be the beginning of public libraries in Finland. The first public library in Helsinki was founded in 1819, and in Viipuri a public library was… |
| Salut je suis etudient en psychologie en algeria jai besoine d abtenaire une lettre daccielle pour visiter la bebliothaique a l objactive de finalisie la these… |
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11.9.2008 |
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Veuiller prender contact avec l*université d*Helsinki, Bureau de Personelle international, aux
http://www.helsinki.fi/intstaff/
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| I read about the libraries at finland, and I like to tell you that I like to contact the libraries at finland, may you tell me how can i begin with you? I like… |
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10.9.2008 |
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There are hundreds of libraries in Finland, both public libraries and university or special libraries.
The best place to start when looking for information on Finnish libraries is quite likely the web address http://www.libraries.fi/ . The web site is available in English language also.
"Libraries.fi provides access to Finnish Library Net Services under one user interface. The portal serves as a starting point especially for users seeking information about libraries, culture and information services. The services are meant to be every-day tools for library workers, but they are also available for anyone co-operating with or interested in library matters."
From the subpage http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/libraries/ you can find many links to… |
| Sirs, I am writing you from Serbia and I wonder if you can please help me to find out what are the models of traditional publishing? What types of publishing… |
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3.9.2008 |
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Hello,
I´m sorry but i don´t think the Helsinki City Library either can help so very much from distance in searching after specific textbooks according to the general standpoint in your question. But i think the link below can be to some help for further reserach:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publisher
Best regards.
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| Terve, I am doing a survey of Savo Finnish books in Finnish libraries. For how long do you keep the loan records of your books? Kiitoksia paljon. |
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28.8.2008 |
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Do you mean to inquire for how long do Finnish libraries have information on borrowers of a book after the book has been returned? In Helsinki region, we do not keep such loan records at all. Instead, the customer can him/herself see his/her own personal borrowing history in his own record in our database Helmet (http://www.helmet.fi/). For that you must have pin code on your HelMet card.
If, instead, you mean lending statistics of a book: we keep count permanently and the cumulating loan issue number increases (hopefully) or at least stays (not so hopefully) up to the book is discarded.
With “Savo Finnish books”, do you mean books written in Savo dialect? In that case you may be interested in the list of fiction books in Savo dialect in… |
| Could you tell me in which library I can find books on psychology in English? |
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22.8.2008 |
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Below kindly find a listing on books on psychology in the Helmet libraries. When you click on the title you will see where to find the http://www.helmet.fi/search*fin?/dpsykologia/dpsykologia/1%2C2%2C747%2C… in question.
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| I asked 3 musical friends the following and I share the answer I received from one of the friends: I was thrilled to get my 'Finnish Fix' at FinnFest 2008… |
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20.8.2008 |
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As the musician you asked said, the Finnish birchbark flute is a recorder, or a fipple flute, not a transverse (cross, German) flute.
Here you can see a very good picture of a birchbark flute: http://www.laulumies.com/laulelma_ala4.html (scroll down, the right picture is third down). Rauno Nieminen has made the birchbark flute in the picture. He has a small company where he builds acoustic instruments. Here are his contact information: http://raunonieminen.com/sivusto/index.php?sivu=yhtied (his net pages are, unfortunately, only in Finnish, but no doubt you can e-mail in English)(in his e-mail address "etunimi.sukunimi" means "first name.last name", that is, you put rauno in the place of "etunimi" and nieminen in the place of "sukunimi… |
| Do you have audiobooks in the library? To learn languages, Spanish and Finnish? |
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8.8.2008 |
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You find plenty of finnish and spanish audiobooks in HelMet-libraries. You can do advanced search in http://www.helmet.fi/ with finnish keyword ÄÄNIKIRJAT. Then you choose CD as material type and the language you want.
I hope you find interesting and amusing audiobooks wich help you to learn new languages.
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| Im starting a bar job soon and i need to learn about drinks. mainly about irsh whiskeys and differences between them. Does the library have books on them in… |
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7.8.2008 |
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Here are some books about whisky in English found in HelMet Web Library : Banks, Iain: Raw spirit: in search of the perfect dram (2003); McIvor, Doug: Scotch whisky: top single malts (1999); Wisniewski, Ian: The classic whisky handbook: an essential companion to the world’s finest whiskies (1998); Arthur, Helen : The single malt whisky companion: a connoisseur’s guide (1997) and Shaw, Carol P.: Whisky (1996). You can check the availability of the books in online catalogue www.helmet.fi. Good luck in your new job.
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| I am from Argentina.I am looking for information about environmental education.I am a teacher. I know you have books about it. |
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4.8.2008 |
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Hi!
I found you some books about enviromental ecucation. You can find more information about them in librarycatalogues Helmet (Helsinki metropolian area library) and Helka (Universtiy of Helsinki).
These you can find in Helmet http://www.helmet.fi
1. Good practices in Northern watercourses : community development, river restoration and environmental education / Varpu Savolainen (ed.)
2. Education for democracy as a part of education for sustainable development : 4th International Journal of Teacher Education and Training Conference : post-conference book / Juhani
Hytönen (ed.)
3. Water in our life and environment : Socrates/Comenius 1.1 school project 2004-2007 / [editors: Eija Liisa Sokka-Meaney, Eila Kuokkanen]
4. Teacher education for… |
| I used to borrow a book called la drole d'equipe by richard deroussy de sales. How can I get it? now that it is no longer for borrowing. |
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29.7.2008 |
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The item is not available in HelMet libraries anymore, but Lappeenranta and Kuopio public libraries have it furthermore in their collections. Because the item is not found in any library of Helsinki metropolitan area, it is possible to make a distant loan request in our internet service http://www.lib.hel.fi/forms/kaukopalvelupyynto.asp
If you need a book not available in Helsinki, you can browse library collections in whole Finland by using Frank-database. You find it here http://monihaku.kirjastot.fi/frank/ or by writing keyword Frank-monihaku to Google as well. On the first page you see all alternative search categories.
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| I'm interested in learning finnish language, do you have a free downloadable finnish alphabet? or dictionary? thank you. sean |
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22.7.2008 |
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You'll find the finnisch alphabet for english speakers at the Wikipedia site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_alphabet .
Online introductions to Finnish language are given for example in the following addresses:
http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/FinnishForForeigners/
http://venla.org/
Free language software downloads are found in the address http://www.byki.com/fls/FLS.html
English to Finnish/Finnish to English online dictionaries are available in the following addresses:
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/fin.html
http://www3.fincd.com/
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| Do you have the book "Cultural Shock Finland" from Deborah Swallow? Kiitos! |
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21.7.2008 |
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The name of the book is "Culture shock! Finland", and yes, we do have it in HelMet libraries. Please check the current availability here:
http://www.helmet.fi/search~S9/t?SEARCH=culture+shock+finland&searchsco…
Welcome to visit any HelMet libray!
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| I am looking for birth records in Tampere, Finland. |
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14.7.2008 |
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You can contact the parish register / record office of the Tampere Lutheran Church via e-mail: keskusrekisteri.tampere@evl.fi
English web-page of the Tampere Lutheran Church:
http://www.tampereenseurakunnat.fi/english
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| Do you have a persian books?? thanks.... |
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30.6.2008 |
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At least in the bigger public libraries of Helsinki metropolitan area there are many books in Persian language. If your local library doesn't have many books in Persian, you can ask the librarian over there if they could order some books from other libraries for you.
You can browse the Persian language books in Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa public libraries by choosing the advanced search here: http://helmet.fi/search~S9/X and selecting the Persian language from the language menu. If you want to browse all the available Persian books without restricting your search in any other way, you can replace query words by typing only two asterisks ** in the search field.
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