A complete list of all the libraries in Finland can be found under the following link:
http://www.libraries.fi/
The webpage includes both public and research libraries.
Here are a few books where you can find general information about Finland:
- Facts about Finland (several editions)
- Finland. A cultural guide, ed. Pirkko-Liisa Louhenjoki-Schulman – Kaius Hedenström. 2003 Keuruu. Landscapes of Finland. Heikkilä, Tapio- Timonen, Risto. Keuruu 2003. Finland.
- The Northern Experience, New Europe, and the Next Millennium. Helsinki 1999.
- De Vries, André, Live and work in Scandinavia: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Oxford 2002.
There are also a few interesting Internet-sites available http://www.finland.fi/ and http://www.virtualfinland.fi/ .
Statistics Finland publishes Cultural Statistics yearbook. The newest version is from 2001. Please look at the following link: http://tilastokeskus.fi/tk…
In reference to your inquiry concerning the Helsinki city library and its organisation, I hope that the following provides sufficient answers to your questions.
- Who writes the site's contents? The librarians of each department?
Editor-in-chief writes most of the contents with the help of some other librarians.
- Who brings the site up to date, technically speaking? Is there a unique webmaster or do several employees act as webmasters?
The main webmaster from the Online Library Unit is in charge of the overall technical administration of the Helsinki City Library’s web site, but some libraries also have their own assisting webmasters.
- Is there an editorial committee which decides on the outline of the website?
Yes, we have an editorial…
You can find lists of Finnish libraries (public libraries, research libraries, special libraries) in the http://www.libraries.fi -site. Information about libraries can be found in the Libraries-channel.
Libraries.fi contains also other information about Finnish libraries and the library system in Finland.
Your question is quite difficult 'cause there are a lot of barbeque sauce creators in Minnesota.
One of the most famous is John Michaels who was the National Beef Cook-Off winner in the year 1988.
Hello!
In Helsinki you can send a fax eg in Töölö library, Topeliuksenkatu 6, tel. 09-31085025. You can send a fax only in Finland region.
Also in following libraries: Herttoniemi, Itäkeskus, Jakomäki, Kannelmäki, Kontula, Käpylä, Laajasalo, Malmi, Munkkiniemi, Oulunkylä, Puistola, Pukinmäki, Rikhardinkatu, Suutarila, Tapanila, Tapulikaupunki, Töölö, Vallila and Viikki.
If you want send a fax to abroad, you can do that in Tikkurila library (main library in Vantaa), Stockmann department store or Elisa shops.
Mr Einari Marvia and Mr Matti Vainio have written/edited the book about the history of Helsinki Philharmonic:
"Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri 1882-1982" (WSOY 1993, ISBN 951-0-18312-1).
I browsed briefly through the book but I couldn't find any mentioning of a person by the name of Garagusi there, I'm afraid. My advice for You is to try to contact the administration of the orchestra directly. They propably have some more detailed archives/files of their own and can possibly help You to locate the longed-for Garagusi there, if he should have visited the orchestra as a guest conductor, for example. The homepages of Helsinki Philharmonic are located at:
http://www.hel.fi/filharmonia/english/index.htm
There are three universities, where it is possible to study information science in Finland. These are Tampere University http://www.uta.fi/english/index.html, Oulu University, http://www.oulu.fi/english/index.html and the swedish speaking Åbo Akademi, http://www.abo.fi/aa/engelska/. The two finnish ones have electronic dissertations on their library pages, Oulu university library
http://www.kirjasto.oulu.fi/english/julkaisutoiminta/elektroniset/ and Tampere University Library, http://acta.uta.fi/english/ search by department (Information studies). I did'nt find electronic dissertations on the pages of Åbo Akademi library and did'nt get any hits in their database Alma. Maby it would be best to contact the library directly http://www.abo.fi/…
Finnish Ask a librarian- service has an open archive. You can find it on the page www.libraries.fi, on the top on the right there is a link to Ask a librarian-service and right under that Archive. There are links to several online services from the page www.libraries.fi (Finnish version www.kirjastot.fi > Kirjastoala (on the top on the right) > Verkkotietopalvelu (on the bottom on the left) > Kirjastojen verkkotietopalveluita (or direct address http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/kirjastoala/verkkotietopalvelu/ )You can also find several European libraries from this address http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org. You can search for online-services from each library’s own page. It is possible to find several Ask a librarian-services around…
Here are some, hopefully useful, websites for you:
http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/library_branch
http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Kirjastot/?lang=en
http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=27044
Here is one possible page with information in English (and several other languages) http://www.infopankki.fi. Choose English version, then choose Culture and Leisure, then you get a list of libraries and other cultural organizations. On the page http://www.kulttuuri.net you can also find information about different Finnish cultural organizations. A list of cultural centres in Helsinki is on page http://www.kulttuuri.hel.fi/index_en.html. One more page with information in English http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/?lang=en, choose Culture. Http://www.kirjastot.fi is the page of Finnish libraries, also in English.
Journalistic and media studies are offered in several universities in Finland. A good starting point to get an overview of media studies in Finland is the University network for communication sciences, http://viesverk.uta.fi//index.php?lang=en .
Tampere University also has journalistic and media studies in their Department of Journalism and
Mass Communication, http://www.uta.fi/jour/index1.html . In Tampere University there is also The Journalism Research and Development Centre http://www.uta.fi/jourtutkimus/basics.html .
Research concerning ethnic minorities and media, for example, is also done in the faculty of humanities in Jyväskylä University, Department of language, within the subject of discourse studies, http://www.jyu.fi/hum/…
A good source for finnish designers is http://www.finnishdesign.fi/home
On the left of this page in blue: "About us", you can find more information. For example DESIGN MUSEUM has very good pages under this file.
LINKS is also good to look at. Gallery has some older designers featured.
On the whole these pages have a lot of information about Finnish design and designers.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 105 persons between 1901-2008. The countries who have most Nobel Prize in Literature laureates are:
1. France (13)
2. United States (12)
3. United Kingdom (9)
4. Germany (8)
5. Italy (6)
Sweden (6)
7. Poland (5)
Spain (5)
9. Ireland (4)
10.Denmark (3)
10.Norway (3)
12.Japan (2)
Greece (2)
Chile (2)
South Africa (2)
Switzerland (2)
21 countries have one Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
More detailed information:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lan_nob_pri_in_lit_mos_awa_cou_lau-li…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/
Internet is full of information about library toolbars. Library Success' website has a long list of links to different kind of library toolbars:
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Web_Browser_Extensions#Toolba…
Ask a Librarian provides answers in three languages: Finnish, Swedish and English. Ques-tions in other languages can only be answered if there happens to be a person available who is capable of giving professional service in that language. About Ask a Librarian see also,
http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/ask_librarian/about/ .
You might find help in the National Library of Estonia, information about services here
http://www.nlib.ee/32825
We could not check Your customer record because You didn't give Your name. You wrote in English so we could suggest that the obvious reason is that You are not staying permanenntly in Finland? The usual politics is that the library card can be used six months by those not living permanently in Finland. However, You can came to any Helmet library with Your library card and ID and then we can re-activate Your card for another six months. (If this is not the case, please call any Helmet library so that we can check Your customer record.)
