Concerning your request about books about Finland, I here found you some books consisting, history, finnish society and architectual sights.
Finland : a cultural guide / Pirkko-Liisa Louhenjoki-Schulman, Kaius Hedenström [Kantele] : Aava Books, 2005 (Vammala : Vammalan kirjap.) ISBN 952-5490-00-9
Finland / Roger Connah/ London : Reaktion Books, 2005
ISBN 1-86189-250-0
Art in Finland from the Middle Ages to the present day / [Bengt von Bonsdorff .. et al.] ; [translation: Hildi Hawkins, Jüri Kokkonen [Helsinki] : Schildt, 2000
ISBN 951-50-1116-7
Towards a networked Finland : the Information Society Council's report to the Finnish government : february 2005 / [English translation by Hanna Liikala] [Helsinki] : The Prime Minister's Office,…
Search engine or search service is a software that searches the Internet for information. Database is an organized collection of information (data) of one or more specific areas (The New Penguin English Dictionary, London 2000).
More about the search engine and the database you can read in the english Wikipedia, a free Internet encyclopedia. The addresses of the sites are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database .
Please, use this database:
A translation database is kept by the Finnish Literature Society library and the Finnish Literature Information Centre. The database contains details of translations of Finnish (Finnish, Sámi and Finland-Swedish) literature, folk poetry, children's literature and general non-fiction since 1812.
http://dbgw.finlit.fi/engkaan.php
There is a recent abridged edition of the UDC,
Universal Decimal Classification : Abridged Edition
London : British Standards Institution , 2003
(Published document ; PD 1000:2003)
Guides to UDC:
McIlwaine, I. C., Guide to the use of UDC : an introductory guide to the use and application of the Universal Decimal Classification. The Hague : International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID), 1993. (FID occasional paper 5). (New edition 2000)
The UDC : essays for a new decade / edited by Alan Gilchrist and David Strachan
London : Aslib , 1990
On the Internet, you can find information about UDC in the site UDC consortium, here http://www.udcc.org/outline/outline.htm
Here is the site of Aldata –group http://www.aldata-solution.com/. It is one of the leading Finnish companies that sells smart card solutions to business. For instance our library has a smart card solution from them.
On this page you’ll find their customers in different countries on retail and wholesale branch:
http://www.aldata-solution.com/com/Customers/Retail%20and%20Wholesale/
They'll probably will tell you more about their finnish customers by e-mail if you contact them.
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.
I'll give you two internet addresses where you'll find information on construction industry in Finland. On those sites you can also contact directly associations in question. The first one is Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries http://www.rtk.fi/english/index.htm and the second is Finnish Association of Construction Product Industries http://www.rttry.fi/ .
You will find a lot of information of living in Finland in the book of Victoria Pybus Live & work in Scandinavia (1995). A useful site is the Guide for moving to Finland of the Finnish Labour Administration http://www.mol.fi/migration/muuttaja.html If you are interested in general information of the Finnish society and way of living you'll find it e.g. in Virtual Finland http://virtual.finland.fi/ of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. For statistical information of Finland there is the Finland in Figures on the site of the Statistics Finland http://www.stat.fi/tk/tp/tasku/suomilukuina.html (in Finnish) or http://www.stat.fi/tk/tp/tasku/suomilukuina_en.html (in English) Links to sites for basic information for foreigners and…
