You can find very much information from the website of Finnish National Board of Education (Opetushalitus):
http://www.oph.fi/english/services/recognition
Information about qualification requirements in libraries you can find here, but unfortunately just in Finnish and Swedish:
http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Kirjastot/kirjastoalan_koulutus/?lang=fi
Sounds like you have to replace the book. Each book has its own price and ranges from around 9 € to 450 €.
Usually the price is around 25€. You can also replace the book with another similar one.
Do you mean the competition "A motto for Europe", which was arranged by French journal Ouest France? Finland's suggestion was "Perheenä Eurooppa - kotina maailma". In English: Our family is Europe - our home is the world. Finland as a country has no official motto. Sometimes we use three words beginning with S :"Sisu, Sauna and Sibelius" . Sisu is hard to translate, it is something like courage and perseverance, sauna is the Finnish bath and Sibelius is the famous Finnish composer. But this saying is informal!
I found some full-text articles of son preference in the EBSCO article database. I'll email them to you each separately. In the union catalog of the Finnish university libraries LINDA there were following references:
Thomson, Elizabeth: Gender and the value of children. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988
Stattin, Håkan: The short- and the long-term implications for parent-child relations of parents' prenatal preferences for their... Stockholm : University of Stockholm, 1989
Stattin, Håkan: Delinquency as related to parents' preferences for their child's gender : a research. Stockholm : University of Stockholm, 1989
And some article references from the medical database Medscape:
Marleau JD, Berthiaume M, Saucier JF,…
Very little information about the clock could be found in books or in the internet. In the book Högström Hilkka: Helsingin rautatieasema - Helsinki railway station (ISBN 951-53-0533-0) is the following chapter:
"The Siemens-Schuckert electrical company installed the German clockwork for the Helsinki Railway Station tower. Originally the weights had to be cranked up daily by hand. The dial was made by a Finnish workshop (Oy Arvo Urho). In the 1930's, an electric rewinding apparatus was installed, and in 1980 the clock was coupled with a quart-controlled central mechanism.
...Over the years, travellers have liked to bet on the tower's dimensions. Its height from street level is 48.5 metres. The diameter of the dial is 3.3 metres; the…
The height of the central tower of Tuomiokirkko is 71 meters.
The church is called also Suurkirkko or Nikolain kirkko.
You can find the height of the tower in Internet at page http://de.travel.yahoo.com/t/wc/finland/helsinki/churches/suurkirkko.ht…
It seems like Eevaneule-magazine has been published only from 1971 to 1986. In the Helsinki City Library storage we have years 1977 - 1982. They are original paper magazines, there is no on-line version available. You can contact the publisher A-lehdet, http://www.a-lehdet.fi/ in order to find out more about the magazine and its history (e-mail: info@a-lehdet.fi ).
You can search HelMet libraries video casette collection by choosing keyword search http://www.helmet.fi/search/X for keyword you can put Agatha Christie and change all types of material to video casette. By clicking the title of the video you get the location infomation and the original title. Most of the video collection are spoken in original language, only the subtitles are in finish.
Unfortunally HelMet libraries collection don't have "And there were none" by Agatha Cristie. But there are several other films made from her books. You should find "And there were none" videocasette in any video rental company.
Unfortunately we did not find the plans and instructions for building the Kiva 2 (K2)-kayak. The magazine Joka Poika is not listed in our databases, so we could not find it either.
But when we searched the internet for information about this subject, we found the following two links, which might be useful to you. We hope that they help you to find what you're looking for:
http://www.kayakforum.com/KayakBuilding/index.shtml
http://koti.nettilinja.fi/~welho/eng/index.html
Hink pinks are riddles. The answers to the riddles are words that rhyme with each other and contain the same amount of syllables. Hink pinks have 1 syllable answers. A hinky pinky has 2 syllable answers. A hinkity pinkty has 3 syllable answers.
From these links you can find more information about hink pinks. http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=59…
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4455/hinks.html
You are not allowed to have more than 20 reservations at a time.
For more information on using the library and user regulations:
http://www.helmet.fi/screens/help.html
There is no special library dedicated to Tove Jansson, but in Tampere You can study Tove Jansson's Moomin works in a special museum called The Tampere Art Museum - Moomin Valley. The Museum is situated in the Tampere main library and it has a collection of Tove Jansson drawings and miniature works. More info on page
http://www.tampere.fi/muumi/english/index.htm.
The Exhibition even has a small database (in finnish) of the contents of Moomin books.
The Finnish Institute for Children's Literature -
Documentation and Information Centre for Finnish Children's Literature collects the works of finnish children's authors and also the studies and reference works. This Institute is also here in Tampere (http://www.tampere.fi/kirjasto/sni/sneinfo.…
Find out about a name by looking it up in books or atlases on surnames. The name Juola points either to Ostrobothnia or to the far east, to Ruokolahti. Juolan talo, the Juola house, was known in the 16th century in Kalajoki. The name seems to have been Juvala or Juvola at first, which means that the patron of the house was called Johannes(=Juva).
To find out more about a name you should go to the Genealogical Society of Finland's website. The adress is www.genealogia.fi. Find the articles under the heading Personal Names. Then give the HisKi -church records database a try. Here's a way to go:
1)click on search program
2)choose All
3)choose Christened
4)write the name where the Father's last name is asked for
5)click on Submit
You can also…
Please note public library statistics on the following link
http://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/Default.aspx?&langId=en
Statistics concerning research libraries will be found at the following link.
http://yhteistilasto.lib.helsinki.fi/organization.do?action=list&organi…
Early this year 2005 there was 114 cities and 432 municipalities in Finland.
First some facts about the Ask a librarian, http://www.libraries.fi/ask_librarian/ . It is the joint online reference inquiry service of the Finnish libraries. This means that the questions are answered in many libraries in the whole country. There is a list containing the participating libraries in our service, http://www.libraries.fi/ask_librarian/libraries/ . We provide service in three languages: finnish, swedish and english. There is also a more simple question form for children in finnish and swedish.
1) The most often asked questions.
I’m afraid there is no fresh study about the contence of the questions. There is one student who is planning to make a study about the reference questions sent to our service, but I’m afraid that she…
Yes you can if the material you need doesn't exist in libraries in the metropolitan area. The form for interlibrary loans you find here http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=3459 . Interlibrary loan inside Finland or from Nordic countries costs 4 €.
