Professor Ulla-Maija Kulonen has written some information about the etymology of finnish words.
Her material is available on-line.
http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=25830
Verbs saapua and saavuttaa are derived from the verb saada.
They are native words.
Saapas is a loan word from Russian.
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Many libraries have etymological dictionary:
Suomen sanojen alkuperä : etymologinen sanakirja. 1 - 3. -Helsinki : Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, 1992 - 2000.
Finland adopted a new Constitution in March 2000. Like its predecessor, the new Constitution states that Finnish and Swedish are the national languages of Finland. According to the Constitution, the public authorities are required to provide for the cultural and societal needs of the Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking populations of the country on an equal basis. In practice, this means that various social services, education and information must be provided in both languages. The law also ensures bilingual government in Finland. This means that all legislation and other important documents must be available in both Finnish and Swedish.
http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26218
http://www.om.fi/20802.htm
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I suggest you study books on mathematics. For example the next ones deal with the subjects you mentioned.
Stoer, Josef: Introduction to numerical analysis, New York : Springer-Verlag, 1980
Advances in numerical analysis
Volume 1 : Nonlinear partial differential equations and dynamical systems / edited by Will Light
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1991
Pap, Endre: Partial differential equations through examples and exercises, Dordrecht : Boston : Kluwer Academic , cop. 1997
Gustafson, Karl E.: Introduction to partial differential equations and Hilbert space methods, Mineola : Dover, 1999
DiBenedetto, Emmanuele: Partial differential equations
You can also search these terms in the Internet.
Wikipedia e.g. gives these results:
http://en.…
The appeal of the Cinderella fairy tale for the Finnish children seems to be the same as for most children in around the world. Like most classical fairy tales, the universal theme of the initial rejection of the main protagonist and her eventual victory over her adversaries captivates children all over the world.
Lake Victoria Special Arts Foundation is asking net partners to foundation. The quality of art education have been improving and art activities have increased (art exhibitions and so on) among people with learning disabilities during last years.
Kettuki Art Centre is Finland’s nationwide art centre for people with learning disabilities. It began its operations in May 2006.
Tasks of the Kettuki Art Centre:
-organizing art exhibitions
-compiling a databank
-providing information on projects and activities in the field
-acquiring and maintaining its own art collection
-maintaining a network
-training and consulting
-producing publications and education material
-providing expertise and serving as an interest group
-cooperation with the art…
Yes, we have several books about modern slavery in English. The books listed below are available in Helsinki, Vantaa or Espoo City Libraries:
-Cox, Caroline: "This immoral trade - slavery in the 21st century" (Monarch, 2006)
-Bales, Kevin: "Disposable people - new slavery in the global economy" (University of California Press, 2000)
-Ali, Miriam: "Without mercy - a woman's struggle against modern slavery" (1995)
-"The slavery reader" edited by Gad Heuman and James Walvin (Routledge, 2003)
-Bales, Kevin: "New Slavery : a refence handbook (ABC-Clio, 2000)
You can search the books from our catalogue by using Helmet search: http://www.helmet.fi/search~S9/X
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.
The problem is due to compatibility between Firefox and Citrix system which the public computers use. So that is why Firefox is currently removed from public computers in Helsinki. The problem is not yet solved and unfortunately it is still not known when Firefox will be back in public computers.
Your comments have been forwarded to the IT unit of Helsinki City Library.
Thanks for your feedback.
The stripes work as camouflage making zebras indistinguishable to other animals, and on the other hand they also actually help zebras recognize one another. See:
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/question454.htm
How the stripes have developed is a question of evolution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
It is quite complicated to have a list of this kind of magazines. We can suggest few of them accoding the internet lists as follows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology#Journals
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&hybrid=&query=%22educational…
http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/
The best way to find different translations for Finland and Finnish is to use Google translator:
http://translate.google.com/
Finland is in Finnish Suomi
Finnish is suomalainen
You can use these terms as the source.
I'm afraid I don't quite understand your question. What exactly do you mean by "academic resources" and "regulations"? If you mean the library collections of the Finnish university libraries and the right to use them, so basically they are open for everybody and it is also possible to request interlibrary loans from their collections, even to be sent abroad.
If you are staying in Finland, there are many libraries worth visiting. Depending on your special interests, I would recommend e.g. the following:
http://www.nationallibrary.fi/index.html
http://www.aralis.fi/en/taik.html
http://lib.tkk.fi/en/
http://helecon.lib.hse.fi/EN/
http://www.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/
You will find the contact information of all Finnish libraries at http://www.…
You can find information on this service at http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/ask_librarian/keywordquestions.aspx?WordI… It's the archive of this service and there are answers to several similar questions than yours.
Information on your second question:
Ifla Digital reference guidelines http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s36/pubs/drg03.htm
Overview on services in 2009
http://www.teachinglibrarian.org/weblog/2009/12/digital-reference-servi…
Virtual reference best practices : tailoring services to your library by M. Kathleen Kern.
Chicago : American Library Association, 2009.
The virtual reference handbook : interview and information delivery techniques for the chat and e-mail environments / Diane K. Kovacs.
London : Facet, 2007.
At Google Books…
Hello and welcome to Espoo! All Espoo libraries have children's sections. The bigger libraries have bigger areas, smaller libraries smaller areas for children. You could try the Sello library or the Entresse library. Perhaps your choice also depends on where you live and which is the nearest library to your home. All Espoo libraries welcome children to their premises.
You can book Library 10 Group Room in the same place where you can reserve computers. Max. time for reservation is 4 hours.
Go to Helmet mainpage and choose "Book a computer" http://www.helmet.fi/en-US
There you can find text “Book a computer or a workspace”
https://varaus.lib.hel.fi/default.aspx?cid=en-GB
Choose a library > Library 10. Select a page item “Show information”, so you can see that number 40 is Group Room and max. time for reservation is 4 hours.
At Library 10 website click workspaces so you can see Group Room 40 and make reservation.
You can bring the DVD to the library, if they have a place for donations and voluntary recycling of materials (many libraries in Helsinki do have). Unfortunately the library itself is not allowed to receive movies as donations, since we have to get a license and pay for it for copyright reasons.
Best wishes
Heikki Poroila
