The bundle made of straw is called 'lyhde' or 'olkilyhde' in Finnish. It is traditionally for feeding birds in winter. For example in this website you can see a picture of olkilyhde:
http://www.finlit.fi/tietopalvelu/juhlat/joulu/lyhde.htm
The animal shape is typically a billy coat and it is called 'olkipukki'. It is a traditional Finnish Christmas decoration and is still popular in many homes.
Some information about traditional Finnish christmas for example in this website:
http://www.dlc.fi/~marian1/gourmet/xmas_4.htm
Information about The Seurasaari Christmas Path (Joulupolku) in English you can see here:
http://www.joulupolku.net/english.html
http://finland.fi/Public/default.aspx?contentid=179853
Here are some books that might help you:
Books in Finnish University Libraries:
http://finna.fi
Larsson, Göran: Islam and muslims in Sweden : integration or fragmentation? : a contextual study. (Berlin 2007)
Gustafsson Figueroa, Kerstin: För Guds skull : muslimer i Sverige (Stockholm 2007)
Otterbeck, Jonas: Islam, muslimer och den svenska skolan (Lund 2000)
Mellanöstern här [redaktör: Claes Wahlöö]. (Lund 2004)
Roald, Anne Sofie: Muslimer i nya samhällen : om individuella och kollektiva rättigheter (Göteborg 2009)
Andersson, Åsa: Där hemma, här borta : möten med Orienten i Sverige och Norge (Stockholm 2001)
Carlbom, Aje: The imagined versus the real other : multiculturalism and the representation of muslims in Sweden (Lund 2003)
Books…
You can find statistics about Helsinki city library so:
http://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/en-GB/ > search statistics > Area selection > Municipality (Helsinki) > > Statistics selection > Loans or Personnel.
Or you can find them from Yearly reports:
http://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/en-GB/yearlyreports.aspx
We don’t have volunteers working in our libraries. Playing games by the library computers is usually allowable. Eating or drinking at the same time is not forbidden. It takes one to three days for a reserved book to go to an another Helmet library (Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa or Kauniainen city library).
Hi Fiona,
I'm afraid there is no written history of Jyväskylä City Library available in English. In our website there is a brief history written in Finnish: http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/kirjasto/erikoissivustot/historia
Maybe you can translate it and find the facts you need? There is also a comprehensive study about Jyväskylä City Library available: http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/instancedata/prime_product_julkaisu/jyvaskyla/e…
Please contact us for further information if needed.
If you are willing to volunteer as a reader to the kids, you have to contact directly the head of the library you are thinking of. You can find the contact information of all HelMet area libraries from here: http://www.helmet.fi/en-US
Even if you plan not to organize this WITH a library but just IN a library, you have to contact the head of the library.
Heikki Poroila
I recommend these web sites for you:
In English:
History of Finland
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/hist.html
This site is part of Virtual Finland, which is produced by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.
A Web History of Finland
by Pasi Kuoppamäki
http://ky.hkkk.fi/~k21206/finhist.html
In Finnish:
Suomi 80 : Itsenäistymisen vuodet 1917-1918
http://www.uta.fi/suomi80/
This site is maintained by Department of History at University of Tampere
Suomen historian kronologia
http://www.utu.fi/agricola/hist/kronologia/index.html
Vuoden 1918 sota
http://www.utu.fi/agricola/hist/aihe/sota/1918.html
These two sites above are part of the Project Agricola, which is
produced by Finnish universities, archives, societies, museums and…
Mikäli kysymyksesi tarkoittaa, että haluat tietää, mitkä ovat Suomen suurimmat kaupungit, on vastaus: 5 suurinta kaupunkia väkiluvun perusteella ovat: Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Vantaa, Turku. Voit lähemmin tarkastella asiaa nettiosoitteesta http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tk/tp/tasku/taskus_vaesto.html#suurimmat . Suomen tilastollinen vuosikirja on hyvä lähdeteos. Siinä on myös mm. kaupunkien ja kuntien pinta-alat. Suomen eri läänien tärkeimmät kaupungit ovat lääninhallituksen sivuilla osoitteessa http://www.intermin.fi/suom/laanit/ .
Architecture Information Centre Finland informed me that there is only a very limited amount of the catalogue printed and they are primarily meant for the exhibition's use in Venice. They try to pass some on to the libraries that are involved in it, but at least for now you can't unfortunately buy the catalogue anywhere.
http://archinfo.fi/en/
If You want to get interlibrary loan from Finland You must to go Your local library and ask them to send Your Interlibrary loan request to Helsinki City Library. Mail address is: kaukopalvelu@helsinki.fi. You should ask from library fees for interlibrary loans. In Finland fees from other countries is something from 14€ to 25 € / loan.
I'm not quite sure, what your question was. If you are looking for a library strategy, we have a guideline for public libraries (the previous one was called strategy), https://www.kirjastot.fi/sites/default/files/content/yleisten-kirjastoj…, which contains the stress points in our library activities. If you are looking for Helsinki City Library strategy, it was updated 2015, but since the city organization has changed the library is a part of the city strategy, Helsinki City Strategy, https://www.hel.fi/helsinki/en/administration/strategy/strategy/city-st…. The former one stated that vision for the library was to enrich the thoughts and ideas of, to offer knowledge, skills and stories and that way to create a new…
The mobile library in Helsinki had 91322 visitors in 2019 according to newly computed statistics. For detailed information please contact the Mobile library.
https://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Libraries_and_services/Mobile_Library_Helsi…
Nationwide library statistics can be found at https://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/yearlyreports.php
The name Mänttä is also an old place name, which is nowadays a town in Finland. The place name Mänttä comes from an old house which Tuomas Niilonpoika Mäntsä (1570–1618) founded in Keuruskoski in the wilderness of Sääksmäki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4ntt%C3%A4
I found two different theories about the name's meaning. One theory is that the word is derived from old Swedish word "mäntare", which means person who process leather or does tanning. So it is possible that the first person with that name was a professional tanner. Other theory is that it might derive from German name Menze.
Tuomas Niilonpoika Mäntsä (Mänttä)'s family has their own society, which might interest you also:
https://mantsa.yhdistysavain.fi/
References…
Hello
It looks like Humalistonkatu has the numbers 1-13 in Karjaa, which would mean that the address has changed. Unfortunately the Address service by the Digital and Population Data Services Agency is only available from Finland. I would suggest free address search services, like fonecta.fi.
You could try on of these
From start to Finnish : a short course in Finnish, White, Leila. [Helsinki] : Finn lectura, [2012]
Complete Finnish, Leney, Terttu. London : Hodder Education, 2010
Mitä kuuluu? : suomen kielen kuuntelu- ja ääntämisharjoituksia, Latomaa, Sirkku. Helsinki : Finn Lectura, 2003
Finnish courses -books
Webmaterial
Easyfinnish
Yle Finnish
More webmaterial in Makupalat.fi
Good morning! There is Multilingual Library in Helsinki. Multilingual collection contains library material for adults, young people and children in more than 80 rarer languages. Here is the link to the library: https://www.libraries.fi/multilingual-library You can browse the collection yourself and choose the books you want. Then you can send the list of those books as a request for interlibary service . Email address of interlibrary service is kaukopalvelu@jyvaskyla.fi
It is a small library service point.
The link is an article translated into Russian from the Finnish Wikipedia about institutional libraries, that is laitoskirjastoista.
The Helsinki City Library has a few institutional libraries, the books of which are mainly intended for use by the institution's customers, but others can also borrow from them.
The second link tells about two institutional libraries in Helsinki.
https://tinyurl.com/laitoskirjasto
https://tinyurl.com/potilaskirjastot
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
Jyväskylä library has the following books that might be of use to you:
1) First Finnish (by Leena Horton), includes a text book and an exercise book)
2) Finski jazyk dlja natsinajustsih: kurs intensivnogo samoobutsenija (by Pavel Razinov)
3) Survival course in Finnish for foreigners (by Eeva Piirainen)
4) Finnish for foreigners (by Maija-Mielikki Aaltio)
In addition to books, in Jyväskylä there are excellent language courses. You can get more information by telephoning to the following number: 626 597 (Jyväskylä folk institute)
If you live somewhere else in Finland, try contacting the local folk institute (that's kansalaisopisto in Finnish).
