In Finland registering for a public library card and borrowing materials from public libraries is free of charge. This is stated in the Library Act and Library Decree.
You can find more information about the Finnish library system here: http://www.minedu.fi/minedu/culture/library/public_libraries.html. Some of the information is also in French.
Here are some useful addresses and sources of information:
Institute of Migration in Finland (Siirtolaisuusinstituutti - Finland)
Address: Linnankatu 61, 20100 Turku, Finland
Phone: 02-2840 440
Fax: 02-2333 460
Regional Centre of Ostrobothnia
Keikulinkuja 1
61100 Peräseinäjoki, Finland
Phone: 06-4181 275
Fax: 06-4181 279
Homepage http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/index_e.php Institute has a service called The Emigrant Register for genealogists and the descendants of Finnish emigrants.
The Genealogical Society of Finland (Suomen Sukututkimusseura)
Address: Liisankatu 16 A
FI-00170 Helsinki
Finland
Telephone +358-9-278 1188
Fax +358-9-278 1199
E-mail samfundet@genealogia.fi…
Helsinki City Library Interlending Department delivers loans to libraries abroad. In order to send material we need an interlibrary request from your local library. Please visit your nearest library and ask about the possibility to make the request. The payment depends on the type of the material. Our email-adress is ill@hel.fi
Helsinki City Library / Interlibrary loans
Box 4100 00099 THE CITY OF HELSINKI
Phone +358 9 310 85433 Fax +358 9 310 85434
The peace treatment was signed in the Government Banquet Hall in Helsinki. For further information, see http://www.valtioneuvosto.fi/vn/liston/base.lsp?r=1827&k=en .
Here are a few links where you can find information about history of Finland:
http://www.finland.fi
http://virtual.finland.fi/History/
http://www.makupalat.fi/historis.htm
Pamela A. Almon's "Mass Transportation Operators' Beliefs About Visual Impairment" in Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness; Jan2001, Vol. 95 Issue 1, p. 5, investigated 171 mass transit operators'beliefs about blindness and the factors that may influence their beliefs.
Jason and Sheri Wells-Jensen and Gabrielle Belknap have studied how casual exposure to braille (a form of writing for the visually impaired) affects sighted people's attitudes towards blindness. The article is published in Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness; Mar2005, Vol. 99 Issue 3, p133-140.
The title of this article speaks for itself: "In the Darkness There Can Be Light: A Family's Adaptation to a Child's Blindness" by Alissa A. Ulster and Beverley J.…
I`m afraid there is no digital language course online offered by Helsinki City Library at the moment. I couldn`t find any information about that either. Helsinki City Library offers e.g. e-books for customers to borrow https://www2.helmet.fi/ebook/?LANG=en
In some swedish libraries it`s possible to download music and audio books onto mp3-players. Maybe in the near future it`s possible to offer language courses also.
The National Library of Finland has an excellent collection of maps. More detail and contact information can be found on their website: http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/english/services/collections/mapcoll.htm
The Helsinki City Library has one book in its collections that is specifically about the parrish of Kuortane. The book was published in 1932 and also includes a map. Information regarding interlibrary loans can be found here: http://www.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/kaukopalvelu/
Here are a couple very informative web-pages on xylitol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol
http://www.xylitol.org/
http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/xylitol_natural_sweetener.html
There isn't any decent translator programs (Finnish to English, English to Finnish) that function on the public domain basis and are free for users.
You can try the following service:
http://www.sunda.fi/online_demo.html
The service is only a demo version and it accepts sentences, which has 60 or less characters.
There is also an international site, which isn't working at the moment http://christianreunion.org/transurl.htm
Wikipedia's article has a nice definition of e-print:
"An eprint is a digital version of a research document (usually a journal article, but could also be a thesis, conference paper, book chapter, or a book) that is accessible online, whether from a local Institutional, or a central (subject- or discipline-based) Digital Repository."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eprint
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.
There are a few of books by Cesar Vallejo availlable in Helmet-libraries i.e. in Helsinki Metropolitan Area libraries.
The titles and availability you'll find here:
"Obra poética completa" is availble in Kirjasto Omena in Espoo
"Poemas en prosa ; Poemas humanos ; España, aparta de mí este cáliz" is in Töölö Library in Helsinki.
"Poemas humanos" is on shelf both in Itäkeskus Library in Helsinki and Sello Library in Espoo.
"El tungsteno ; Paco Yunque" is on shelf both in Rikhardinkatu Library in Helsinki and Tikkurila Library in Vantaa.
An English translation "Spain, take this chalice from me" and other poems" belongs to the collection of Sello Library, but is checked out at the moment.
http://www.helmet.fi
Library of Congress is no doubt the best source of information concerning your iquiry.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/digiref/
Here are some useful addresses Institute of Migration in Finland (Siirtolaisuusinstituutti - Finland) http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/index_e.php
Institute has a service called The Emigrant Register for genealogists and the descendants of Finnish emigrants.
The Genealogical Society of Finland (Suomen Sukututkimusseura) http://www.genealogia.fi/index.php?lang=en
The parish records are the main information sources for genealogists in Finland. You will probably find something of interest on the HisKi- Church Records database on the Genealogical Society's webbsite, http://www.genealogia.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1… . The best way to begin is probably to contact the Genealogical Society of Finland, http://www.…
Unfortunately, your question is so special, that you should obviously contact one or several special libraries. The libraries that come to mind in first order are the Library of Parliament and the Library of the Helsinki School of Economics. Both libraries are open to all users.
You speak of ”budgetary institutions” in general. That field is very large – it seems to me that this term includes all kinds of institutions, financed by various states and by various international organizations. However, if you really should write on such a general level, there is a useful looking report in the Internet, published by the World Band in 2007. Here is the address:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/PSGLP/Resources/BudgetingandBudgetar…
If you…
In Finland there are certain links of our social security system for the seniors:
1.Finland
http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/081101151020EH?OpenDocum…
http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/081101151613EH?OpenDocum…
(english)
http://www.kunnat.net/sv/sakkunnigtjanster/social-halsovard/social%20se…
http://www.statskontoret.fi/public/default.aspx?nodeid=16205
http://www.omaishoitajat.fi/omaishoitajien-tuetut-lomat-ray
(not in english, sw, fin)
2. Nordic countries
http://nososco-eng.nom-nos.dk/
(of Nordic countries, publications in electronic form)
Unfortunately I did not find Baiki in the collections of the Helsinki University Library. However, the journal can be found in the Oulu University Library, the Lapland University Library and the Library of Rovaniemi. The only way to get these articles is through the interlibrary loans system. The request form is here:
https://www.webropolsurveys.com/Answer/SurveyParticipation.aspx?SDID=Fi…
Here's some pictures from Library 10: http://www.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/kirjasto10/kuvia/
Maybe the same pictures?
You can contact to Library 10 and ask more, here is contact information: http://www.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/kirjasto10/yhteystiedot/
Yes, Ruoholahti Children's Library is open to everyone. The most of the collection is for children and the library is closed during school holidays. But otherwise it is like any other Helsinki city library. Wellcome!
http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Libraries_and_services/Ruoholahti_Childrens_…
