We do have both Russian and English book and you can have a library card since you have an address in Finland.
You can obtain a library card and borrowing rights by presenting a photo-enhanced ID-card or passport.
For more information:
http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=2316
http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=2288
See also our list of libraries
http://www.lib.hel.fi/page.asp?_item_id=2286
I have found a few short mentions about the sami beliefs or stories about the loss of the first tooth as a child.
Schefferus, also in English: The history of Lapland (orig.
1674), chapter 26: Of their childbearing. He refers to Samuel Rheen and in the book:
En kortt relation om lapparnes lefwarne och sedher,... (Uppsala 1897) Rheen writes about that belief at least on page 9 in chapter: Om barnssens Vpfostrande och vptuchtellsse and on page 14 in the chapter: Huru the inbördes ärfwa hwar...
The child gets a reindeer of his own from the person who first sees the first tooth.
T.I Itkonen writes about the thing in Suomen lappalaiset
part 2, p. 394. He tells the same story about the gift to
the child: The father of the child gives the child a…
Taivalkoski in the north-east of Finland is a small community with only some 6000 inhabitants.
Many of the names in Taivalkoski are of Lappish origin. For instance Jurmu, the name of your ancestor, is a Lappish word for a deep basin in a river.
For finding out about your ancestors please contact the Genealogical Society of Finland at http://www.genealogia.fi/indexe.htm
Professor Jouko Vahtola at the University of Oulu has written about the history of Pudasjärvi, Taivalkoski and Jokijärvi. His e-mail address is jouko.vahtola@oulu.fi
Parts of Kalle Päätalo's autobiographical novel series about Iijoki and Koillismaa are probably translated and they might be possible for you to get a hold on. You can contact the library of Taivalkoski…
Please, contact directly Mrs Kristiina Suominen Lempäälä City Library. She will give You firsthand information.
(email kristiina.suominen@lempaala.fi)
Library information:
http://www.lempaala.fi/opetus_ja_vapaa-aika/kirjasto/paakirjasto/
Do you mean to inquire for how long do Finnish libraries have information on borrowers of a book after the book has been returned? In Helsinki region, we do not keep such loan records at all. Instead, the customer can him/herself see his/her own personal borrowing history in his own record in our database Helmet (http://www.helmet.fi/). For that you must have pin code on your HelMet card.
If, instead, you mean lending statistics of a book: we keep count permanently and the cumulating loan issue number increases (hopefully) or at least stays (not so hopefully) up to the book is discarded.
With “Savo Finnish books”, do you mean books written in Savo dialect? In that case you may be interested in the list of fiction books in Savo dialect in…
The great famine of Ireland took place in 1845-1849, and it is said that about a million people died of hunger during those years. In the early 1840's around a third of Irish people depended on the potato as their main source of food, and thus the destruction of the potato harvest because of potato blight in 1845 launched a catastrophe.
More information about the famine:
http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/index.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.shtml
Potato blight is a potato disease caused by a fungus. Its origins are in America, from where it spread to Europe by a shipment of seed potatoes destined for Belgian farmers in 1845. Potato blight first affects the leaves and later the actual…
The best collection in Finland is The Slavonic Library/The National Library of Finland. About its services
http://www.nationallibrary.fi/services/kokoelmat/slaavilainenkirjasto.h…
In Kyyti-Library database search a line under Borrowing possible, Ordered and Due date means that the item is not free to be checked out. The reason can be the following: the item is either on the way to the customer or back to the library, or it is being handled by the library staff, or it is lost (and not yet withdrawn from the collection), or it is registered in the special local collection. Ask your library if you want to know the case of the item you are interested in.
Please contact e.g.. the following companies:
Elokuvakirjasto, Tibo-Trading Oy, Kirjastomedia pr BTJ Kirjastopalvelu. They distribute DVD discs to the Finnish libraries.
Answers to both guestions.
Elokuvakirjasto.
http://elokuvakirjasto.fi/s/yhteystiedot
Oy Kirjastomedia - Biblioteksmedia Ab (på svenska)
IBLIOTEKSMEDIA förmedlar och distribuerar DVD-filmer och VHS-filmer till bibliotek, skolor samt läromedelscentraler.
http://internetsivu.yritysopas.com/kirjastomediabiblioteksmedia/
BTJ Kirjastopalveluu
http://www.btj.fi/english/
Tibo-Trading Oy
http://www.tibo.net/?l=en&p=pages%2Fstaff
A song called "Paimenen laulu" (or Paimenlaulu = A shepherd's song) was translated and published by composer P.J.Hannikainen at the beginning of 1900's. It is said to be composed by A. Klauwell (though it might as well be a folk tune).
The complete Finnish lyrics are available at Wikisource page http://fi.wikisource.org/wiki/Paimenen_laulu_(Hannikainen)
Sheet music can be found for example in the songbook "Suuri toivelaulukirja 10".
There are no Englis lyrics for this song, but a rough translation would go like this:
1. I am a young shepherd, happy as a bird. All day long I play on my birch bark horn. 2. When the cattle bells are ringin, and birds are singing too. I like to answer them on my birch bark horn. 3.
When the evening comes, I…
There is an English story hour on Wednesdays at 3 pm - 4.30 pm in the Sello Library in children's section. It is open for children of any age and must come with parent or guardian.
Here is the address:
Sello Library
Leppävaarankatu 9
02600 Espoo (Leppävaara)
We have a public library statistics -database, http://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/en-GB/ but it does’nt include statistics about Internet access in libraries anymore. We had figures on our pages in the early 2000’s, but nowadays we do’nt give those figures anymore, because all public libraries have Internet access (this fact is stated ex.g. on the site of the Ministry of Education and Culture). We can somewhat safely conclude that atleast almost all if not all public libraries provide internet access and computers for their customers.
Ministry of Education and Culture
http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Kirjastot/?lang=en
The question about WiFi-connections is more difficult. We do'nt have a listing made by libraries. On a service available in the Net…
Hello,
thank you for the interest in our service. You can reserve the workstations through staff. If you need any help or advice, do not hesitate to ask.
For more information:
http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Libraries_and_services/Entresse_Library/What…
The Senior Surf Day has held in Finland for some years as a part of the senior citizens week. In that day the elderly people got to know the information technology (computers, smartphone, tablet computers and the services of internet) in many libraries and service centres all over the Finland.
More than a hundred events was organized in 2013. In some places there was over a hundred participants and in some places just some.
The event is organized by The Central Union for the Welfare of the Aged (Vanhustyön keskusliitto).
You can see the libraries and and service centres from the website of the Central Union for the Welfare of the Aged. Unfortunately the print is just in Finnish or Swedish:
http://www.vtkl.fi/fin/seniorsurf/
We have a major project in this area, which was started a few years ago and which has already gained an audience among readers. It is a site called Kirjasampo, http://www.kirjasampo.fi . It is produced by public libraries. Kirjasampo includes information about fiction authors and their books, recencions on literature, new and older, and also advice how to find the books you are interested in at our public libraries. It is also possible for readers to write own reading recommendations in Kirjasampo. The books have been described with keywords and thus it it possible to search books about special themes and topics. Kirjasampo gathers also finnish literature blogs, http://www.kirjasampo.fi/fi/kirjablogit/uusimmat .
Unfortunately the site…
I found an Internet site, that contains some knowledge about the history of the Enonvesi-region and it's villages, http://www.enonkylat.fi/historiikki/. As far as I understand, part of the area has belonged to the cultural region of Häme from early on, the fiscal authorities and the nearest church have been in Häme. That could probably be the explanation to the fact that thist part, called Paadenmaa, still belongs to Päijät-Häme and not to South-Savonia.
There is a contactform on the pages of Enonkylät ry, they could possibly give you more accurate information, http://www.enonkylat.fi/?f=1.
In this case I would recommend You to ask about the standard at Helsinki University Library, Main Library, entrance Unioninkatu 26, Telephone Service 358-9-191 23196, Information Retrieval, tel. 09-191 22740, e-mail HYK-tietopalvelu@helsinki.fi , opening hours Mon - Fri 9 - 20, Sat 9 - 16. You can also get information on this task of Finnish Standards Association SFS, http://www.sfs.fi/english.html , Information Service, e-mail: info@sfs.fi
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/ .
