It has been quite hard to define what kind of material You actually need. Reading research is a vast area and the links provided here may or may not be useful.
First, the links to the Internet where You should have a free access from any Internet account:
"The finnish success in PISA and some reasons behind it
PISA 2000"
Authors and Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä
http://www.jyu.fi/ktl/pisa/publication1.pdf
"Literacy Skills for the World of Tomorrow: Further Results from PISA 2000 - Publications 2000"
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/document/21/0,2340,en_32252351_32236159_336886…
"Summary of “Finland Reads” studies from 1989, 1995, and 2003"
Drafted by Yrjö Repo from the reports of Taloustutkimus Oy
http://www.skyry.…
You could contact the Big Apple Library directly. Email address is kirjasto.omena@espoo.fi
Reservations can also be made at https://varaamo.hel.fi/
Good luck for Your project!
Here are some suggestions for Sámi or Sámi language books that are translated in English:
Beyond the wolf line : an anthology of Sami poetry (1996) is a collection anthology of several Sámi writers.
Roađđi / Rosa Boreal / Boreal Rose : Contemporary Sámi Poetry (2016) is a multi-author collection of contemporary Sámi poetry. It includes poetry in Sámi, English and Spanish.
Trekways of the Wind (1994) and Greetings from Lappland (1983) are anthologies by the most famous Finnish-Sámi poet Nils-Aslak Valkeapää.
The White Stone (2011) by Kirste (or Kirsti) Paltto is a children’s book about loneliness.
In between worlds (2016) is a fantasy novel by Norwegian-Sapmi author and artist Máret Ánne Sara.
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There are several services that offer penpals in Finland. You could try for instance http://www.penpals.com/
http://www.euro26.org/
http://www.iys.fi/ind2.htm
You can find more useful links by Google http://www.google.com/ by entering search term "penpals".
If you want to reach specially people who are interested in Finnish genealogy you could try the mailing lists of the Genealogical Society of Finland http://www.genealogia.fi/postlist/indexe.htm
Right know employment situation in Finland is not very good. There are many librarians and information specialists who are unemployed. That is why it is not so easy to find a job here. But always You can try. I give you links with contact information to some business school libraries.
Business school libraries in Helsinki:
• Aalto university is the biggest one, but they can’t employ new people this year http://lib.aalto.fi/en/
• Haaga Helia university of applied sciences : http://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/library/about-library/contact-information-…
• Hanken school of economics library : https://www.hanken.fi/en/about-hanken/organisation/library/welcome-hank…
The Finnish National Board of Education is responsible for recognition and…
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.
I'm sorry for answering you so late. Helmet chat comes into view just when it's open. In this summer the opening hours are mon-thur 12-17 and fri 12-16:
https://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Events_and_tips/News_flash/Library_services_in_the_summer(211445)
That artice was published in the following journal:
Eidema : an international journal of adaptive strategies of
field biologists / University of Helsinki, Department of
Zoology
So probably the Helsinki University Library can help you. Their website with contact information can be found at http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/english/index.htm.
In Finland there are two kinds of viilis:the short and the long one, which is more "stretching". For the short viili You can make the starter. Look at: http://www.home-media.com/camdenews/recipe.htm and http://www.futurefoods.com/ --->information sheet --->Ferments.
But for the long viili it is more difficult. You could ask for more information from Valio. The Internet adress is: http://www.valio.fi/index.shtml
Unfortunately no Helmet library has an air quality monitor for loan at the moment. Although you can find such a tool in the Helmet catalogue, there seems to be no working equipment left now. Hopefully in the future again?
In the Helmet search you can browse all objects and tools for loan at the Helmet libraries, from sport equipment to drill machines, by using * (star) as a search term and then restricting your search to objects only: https://haku.helmet.fi/iii/encore/search/C__S%28*%29%20f%3Aq__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=cobalt
Sviatoslav Richter's concerts in Finland have been arranged by Fazer Artists' Management Inc. Please contact them by e-mail, they have the information you need in their archives.
The address is info@fazerartists.fi
You can obtain a library card and PIN code from any Helmet library by providing your address and presenting a valid photographic proof of identity with your personal identity code approved by the library. You need to have an address in Finland to get a library card.
helmet.fi. Library card and loans.
The Finnish grammar is available in the internet. On the following sites you’ll find it both in
English and in French:
http://www.uta.fi/~km56049/finnish/
http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi/
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnois
The following titles offer you the Finnish grammar in book form, one of them in French.
- Fred Karlsson: Finnish- an essential grammar, Routledge 1999, ISBN 0415207045
- Merja Karjalainen and Helena Sulkala: Finnish, Routledge 1992, ISBN 0415026431
- Limnell, Eija: Finnois express (Finlande) : guide de conversation, les premiers mots utiles, notions de grammaire, culture et civilisation, renseignements pratiques, Editions du Dauphin 2006
ISBN 2-7163-1323-7
You can see the statistics about lending and library use on Libraries.fi website: https://www.libraries.fi/statistics?language_content_entity=en
In 2017, 77% of >10 year old Finns read at least one book in a 6 month period. More statistics about that in the Statistics Finland website (in finnish): http://www.stat.fi/til/vpa/2017/03/vpa_2017_03_2019-04-25_kat_001_fi.html
Yle has written an article in english about the above statistics: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/more_people_read_in_finland__but_fewer_books_per_year/10755536
Book sales in 2017 was 549 million euros. Source: Statistics Finland https://www.stat.fi/til/jvie/2017/jvie_2017_2018-11-23_tie_001_en.html
The Culture and Media Division of the Ministry of Education in Finland maintains the data in the Finnish Public Libraries Statistics Database. The address is
http://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/Default.aspx?langId=en
Additional library statistics are to be found on the Statistics Finland webbsite under the address
http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/index_en.html
First click on Finland in figures and then on Culture and the media, and finally on Public libraries. Good luck with your work!
We have checked all the Finnish universal and regional library databases, but unfortunately we have not been able to locate any audiovisual material related to teamwork. It is possible to request material from libraries outside Finland. Ask your home library for help.
