You will find The Times in the following branches of the Helsinki City Library: Itäkeskus library, the main library and Rikhardinkatu library. Of these libraries, Itäkeskus keeps the periodical one month and both the main library and Rikhardinkatu library three months. You can request yourself more than 3 months older copies at Rikhardinkatu library. You can search any periodical or newspaper in the Helsinki City Library from the Lib-Press periodicals database at http://libpress.lib.hel.fi/new/search/ also in English.
According to the site The history of eating utensils, the forks were introduced by the Greeks, atleast to the western history of eating utensils. See,
http://research.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil/forks.htm
These following books could give you more information:
Petroski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Giblin, James Cross. From Hand to Mouth: Or, How We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, and Chopsticks & the Table Manners To Go With Them. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1987.
I searched from Helsinki City Libary's database and found only one book on overtone singing. The book is called "Overtone singing: physics and metaphysics of harmonics in east and west" and it is written by Marc C. van Tongeren:
http://www.helmet.fi/record=b1630992~S3*fin
Wikipedia has a very fine article about overtone singing. The article has an excellent list of external references. Many of these refenrences have audio clips.
Overtone singing links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing
http://www.overtone.cc/songs
http://www.overtonesinging.com/
http://www.harmonicovertones.com/
I didn´t find any books by Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov in Finnish. I tried to search in Libraries.fi where is Frank Multisearch for all the finnish libraries. Also I searched in Google without success.
Jaakko Sarvela´s book Jaakko Ilkan suku printed in Ilmajoki by the Ilmajoki seura in 1979, 2.nd ed.in 1987 (ISBN: 951-99207-2-2) can be found in several libraries in Finland. I suggest you contact your local library and ask them to help you through the interlibrary lending system.
You can try to find information about your ancestors via the webpages of the Genealogical Society of Finland, http://www.genealogia.fi/indexe.htm .
The National Board of Antiquities Library is specializing in local history, http://www.nba.fi/LIBRARY/Infoeng.htm .
Institute of Migration (http://www.utu.fi/erill/instmigr/index_e.htm .) has a service for genealogists and the descendants of Finnish Emigrants which is called The Emigrant Register. Sources include…
Hi Sulaymon,
Yes, there is a scanner on the 3th floor in the main library (Vapaudenkatu 39-41). If you want to reserve it, the number is 014 266 4123. Welcome to scan!
If you search the PIKI-database with the keyword Ranskan vallankumous, you will find all kinds of material on the subject, http://kirjasto.tampere.fi:8000/ . Unfortunately, it seams that there are no videos in English about the topic. I found one video about the French revolution in Finnish in Tampere city library, an animation of the series Olipa kerran ihminen...: aikojemme seikkailut = Il etait une fois... l'homme, osa 8: Ranskan vallankumous 1997. There is also anohter videocassette in finnish, Vapauden bulevardit / toimittaja Erkki Toivanen, YLE Tallennepalvelu, 1995. Since the video does'nt include the Tampere city library collection, you should contact the library e.g. by email and ask if it is possible to borrow it from another…
Glad to hear that you are interested in librarywork.
You can apply for unpaid internship.
You can contact the regional library service manager.
Entresse Library: Mikko Kaunisto 046 8773566
Iso Omenan Library: Juha Lilja 043 826 8746
Tapiola Library: Olli Louhimo 046 8772679 and
Sello Library:Anu Miettinen 046 877 3414
You can provide information about working on Finland from the website of Ministry of Employment and the Economy (Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö):
http://www.mol.fi/mol/en/02_working/05_foreigners/index.jsp
Hello!
You can find information about bookboats via Internet. In Finland there is only one bookboat (in Parainen commune). Here are some links about bookboatservices in Norway (N.B. e-mail address in last one):
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla66/papers/141-175e.htm
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/publib/mobile/newnorwa.htm
http://www.hordaland-f.kommune.no/fylkesbibl/Epos/information_in_englis…
Bookboats can be found also in some other countries around the world:
http://www.bookboat.com/unusual_lib/bookboat_lib.htm
Purpose of Helsinki City Library
The Helsinki City Library provides a fundamental civic service available to everyone. As a part of the worldwide network of libraries, we offer customers unrestricted access to sources of culture and information.
On an interactive basis, we develop the library services Helsinki residents need so that they can be
active members of society and enjoy life more fully.
On an interactive basis, we develop the library services Helsinki residents need so that they can be
active members of society and enjoy life more fully.
The Helsinki City Library acts as the Central Library for public libraries. We also serve as a multilingual library. Library network consists of the main library, 30 branch libraries, a number of…
In 2015, according to the Ministry of Education and Culture, there was a public library in every municipality (301), and most of them also had branch libraries (450) and bookmobiles (140) (2015). http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Kirjastot/tilastot/?lang=en
However, in a long term, number of public libraries has decreased since 1960 from 4 007 libraries to 765 in 2015.
http://tilastokeskus.fi/ajk/tiedotteet/2015/uutinen_018_2015-06-10.html
Number of research libraries and special libraries can be found from the Research Library Statistics Database. Number of libraries depends on the level the numbers are calculated: administrative unit, main library and branch libraries are separated in statistics.
Concerning university libraries, there are 18…
Publiclibraries.fi have collected email search engines http://www.kirjastot.fi/showhierarchy.asp?hid=1310#HENKILOT One of the email search engines in Finland is this
https://emailhaku.soneraplaza.fi/servlet/leas?systemName=SoneraPlaza&ma… Unfortunally this service is only in finish. It might be that in these services you have to search by persons name and it doesn't allow you to search by age.
You can localize materials in Finnish libraries using Frank Multisearch (see the link below). You can find library books and other materials from almost all the Finnish libraries that are open and also from several different databases simultaneously.
http://monihaku.kirjastot.fi/en/
You can find information about finnish public libraries in this link: http://www.libraries.fi/
(Information about Finnish Public Libraries).
You probably know already the facts about public libraries in the U.S., but here are a couple of links about those too:
http://www.publiclibraries.com/
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Libraries_and_You/Facts_about…
In Helsinki city library we have children’s web pages. In these pages Bookster (The official web creature of the Helsinki City Library) will show children for example how to use the library. You find pages in English here:
http://www.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/children
I searched the material in databases called Manda and Linda. Here are some results:
- Holstila, Marja
Lasten tietokirjallisuus ajanmukaiseksi : kehittämishanke (2001)
- Tuominen, Kirsti
Children, libraries and information technology : results of user need
analyses (1997)
- Lapset ja aikuiset kirjastonkäyttäjinä Keski-Suomen läänin kunnissa v.1987 /[ julk.] Keski-Suomen lääninhallitus. Kouluosasto (1988)
- Meidän luokka kirjastossa / [työryhmä: Raisa Alameri-Sajama ... et al.] (1996)
- Lastenkirjastotoiminta Hämeen läänin yleisissä kirjastoissa vuonna 1988 (1988)
- Eskelinen, Raili
Yleinen kirjasto lasten lukemisharrastusten ohjaajana (1973)
You can ask these books in your library. If they are not available there, you can make…
you can ask rooms for example from regional libraries of Espoo.
if you do not charge participants, the rooms are usually free of charge.
kirjasto.entresse@espoo.fi,
kirjasto.omena@espoo.fi,
kirjasto.sello@espoo.fi and
kirjasto.tapiola@espoo.fi
Yes, You can. You can return the material borrowed from Helmet libraires to any HelMet library during its opening hours.
http://www.helmet.fi/Preview/en-US/Info/Using_the_library/HelMet_librar…
http://www.helmet.fi/Preview/en-US
