In Finland municipalities are not obligated to have school libraries. Most schools have a library although they may be outdated and have a rather modest collection. Many schools cooperate with the public library. Some municipalities have their own information literacy curriculum which schools and libraries have compiled together. Accordingly to the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education organizations like museums, sport facilities, art centra, public libraries are seen as learning environments.
For more reading on the subject:
Finnish National Agency for Education
http://www.oph.fi/english
Curricula and qualifications > General upper secondary education
link: National Core Curriculum for General Secondary Education Intended for…
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,…
Via the Internet site of Raisio, http://www.raisio.fi/ (shor information in German, http://www.raisio.fi/asp/system/empty.asp?P=439&VID=default&SID=8030312… ) you can find a link to the Raisio City Library, and to it's collections, http://rinfo.raisio.fi/Intro?formid=find1 .
I found there following books in finnish
history (Raisio + historia):
Raisio juhli 700 vuottaan historiallisissa merkeissä : suojoesta nykyaikaiseksi kaupungiksi
Raisio : Raisio-Seura, 1993
(HUOMAUTUKSET S. 3: Rahaisesta Raisiosta No 15/1993 Kotiseutukokoelmassa. Moniste.)
Kivikoski, Ella, Raision historia 1. / Ella Kivikoski ; Oja, Aulis ; Mäntylä, R.A.
Raisio : Raison historiatoimikunta (1960)
Mäntylä, R.A.
Raision historia 2.
Raisio : Raision…
It is quite complicated to have a list of this kind of magazines. We can suggest few of them accoding the internet lists as follows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology#Journals
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&hybrid=&query=%22educational…
http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/
The best way to start your research is to visit the United Nations Statistics Division site at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm . It provides a lot of useful information, statistical databases and links to national statistical sources.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) ( http://www.unece.org/stats/data.htm ) provides statistics on European and North American countries.
You can also contact the Library of Parliament, the official depository for the publications of the UN ( http://www.eduskunta.fi/kirjasto/Welcome-eng.html ) or the United Nations University, WIDER ( http://www.wider.unu.edu ) in Helsinki. Their library focuses on developing countries, but they also provide the official statistics of the UN.
There are some articles about Hella Wuolijoki in English. I found these:
Lounela, Pekka: Hella Wuolijoki : a woman of contrasts. In journal Books from Finland. 1979 p. 120-183
Tarkka, Pekka: Open wide gates. In journal Books from Finland. 1991: 4: 226-227.
Hawkins, Hildi (transl.): Hella Wuolijoki : a versatile talent : 1886-1954. In journal Books from Finland. 1986: 2, p. 90-95
Koski, Pirkko: Hella Wuolijoki, 1886-1954. In Modern drama by women 1880s-1930s : an international anthology. London, Routledge 1996
Koski, Pirkko: Introduction. Portraits of courage : plays by Finnish women. Helsinki, Helsinki university press, 1997
There is also a monograph concerning films based on Wuolijoki's plays:
Koivunen, Anu: Performative histories,…
I asked colleagues, but we invented, what could be wrong.
Would you go to your nearest library beads to investigate the matter?
Take your library card and photo identification with you.
Olemme tarkistaneet hakuteoksesta Kuvataiteilijat 1991 kaikki P-kirjaimella alkavat sukunimet: ei yhtään taiteilijaa, jonka ristimänimi olisi Armas. Sen sijaan R-kirjaimella alkavista löytyi yksi Armas: Kaarlo Armas Raunio, syntynyt 20.4.1911 Helsingissä. Hänellä on ollut näyttely USA:ssa vuonna 1972, paikkakunta Lakeover Bedford Hill. Tämä ehdotuksemme on tietenkin arvailua, mutta jos Raunio ei sovi kokonaisuuteen, niin kysykää uudelleen. - Possibly the artist you are searching is Armas Raunio, b. 20.4.1911 Helsinki.
Different types of vocational training can be attended after completing the basic education (comprehensive school) whereas the polytechnic schools belong to the upper secondary education options which are attended after the higher school. There is a good diagram about the finnish school system at the following address:
http://www.cop.fi/eng/welcometocop/edusystem_large.html
You can read more about the finnish education system in English at various Internet sites. Use Google and the search terms “finnish school system” or “finnish education system”.
The nearest public library is Helsinki city library and the Töölö branch library, at Topeliuksenkatu 6, 00250 Helsinki.
Check our website at
http://www.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/toolo/yhteystiedot/
for contact information and public transport.
You will also find opening hours there.
Family name Liimakka is an unusual name in Finland. According to the name service (Nimipalvelu) of The Digital and Population Data Services Agency service there is or has been only 79 people named Liimakka in Finland:
https://verkkopalvelu.vrk.fi/nimipalvelu/default.asp?L=3
Unfortunately we didn't find the origin of the name.
In Helsinki City Library, we use Sierra by Innovative Interfaces (https://www.iii.com/products/sierra). It’s a commercial software. You can find more about the library systems used in Finland at http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi/kirjastoala/kirjastojarjestelmat#.V1Wlz015I5t. Especially Koha (http://www.koha.org) is interesting as it is an open source software.
Our E-book systems have been integrated to Sierra, but they use different commercial sites. They are OverDrive (https://www.overdrive.com/) and Ellibs (http://www.ellibs.com).
Suurkaupunkialueen kirjastojärjestelmästä löytyy ainakin seuraavanlaisia kirjoja: Nielsen, Jakob: Designing Web usability, 2000; Pedley, Paul: Intranets and push technology - creating an information-sharing environment, 1999; Keen, Peter K. W.: The business Internet and Intranets - a manager's guide to key terms and concepts, 1998; Matthews, Martin S.: FrontPage 98 - the complete reference, 1998; Intranet resource kit (ed. by Prakash Ambegaonkar), 1997; Bremner, Lynn M.: Intranet bible, 1997; Thomas, Stephen A.: Building your Intranet with Windows NT 4.0. 1997; Bannan, Joan:Intranet document management - a guide for Webmasters and content providers, 1997; Official Microsoft Intranet solutions - using Microsoft Office 97 and…
You can get a library card if you have an address in Finland. Without Finnish personal identity number your card is valid for twelve months at a time.
To receive your card take a valid photo ID with you when you visit a library. Libraries in Helmet-area accept the following ID cards:
I.D. cards from EU countries
passports
Finnish driving licences
Finnish SII cards with photos, for those under 18 years also without photos
resident cards issued by any reception centre in Finland
residence permit card issued by the Finnish Immigration Service.
The parish records are the main information sources for genealogists in Finland. Our church legislation resticts however the free use of information concerning events from the 20th century, so
it can be difficult to find information about a person who was born so recently as your mother must have been.
You will probably anyway find something of interest on the HisKi- Church Records database on the Genealogical Society's webbsite, if your search concerns ancestors born more than a hundred years ago. The adress is http://www.genealogia.fi/index.php?lang=en
Please don't hesitate to turn to the Genealogical Society for help. You can also send a request to the Population Register Centre in Helsinki. Their adress is:
http://www.…
”Rajan lapsi” and ”Rajan kansa” under the title Etuvartiokansa (Suomen rajaseutujen asukkaille omistettu) by Arvi Kivimaa (1904 - 1984) were first published in anthology ”Sotatalvi : runovalikoima” (1940, Otava). You find the poems also in the collection of selected poems by Arvi Kivimaa: ”Airut : valittuja runoja vuosilta 1925-44” (Otava 1947) and ”Arvi Kivimaan kauneimmat runot : tekijän toimittama valikoima (Otava, 1958).All these are available in the HelMet-libraries.
http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/1134
https://www.finna.fi/
Sotatalvi : runovalikoima (Otava, 1940)
http://www.helmet.fi/fi-FI
Heikki Klemetti, a finnish composer, was born in Kuortane February 14th 1876. His father was Herman Klemetti and mother Eva Lovisa Vettberg. He married Armi Hämäläinen (born April 12th 1885) in 1908, she was a daughter of Lauri Hämäläinen and Emma Fredrika Kekoni. Heikki Klemetti died in Helsinki August 26th 1953.
More information about Heikki Klemetti can be found on the following web-site of Finnish Music Information Centre
http://www.fimic.fi/contemporary/composers/klemetti+heikki
There are articles about Klemetti in finnish, I didn't find any in english.
You can find information about Finnish Family History Research on http://members.aol.com/DSSaari/
There are a lot of stories about Santa Claus´ history. It's known that there lived the bishop Nicolaus at the 300 century in Turkey who liked children and then Nicolaus´day 6.12. was the celebration day when kids got presents.
Joulupukki/Santa Claus as an old man with grey and long beard began his journey to Finland´s homes during 19th century. Finland´s radio declared Korvatunturi as the home of our Joulupukki in the year 1927. He lives there even today with his family although he himself also spends a lot of time here in Rovaniemi at the Santa Claus village:
http://www.santaclausvillage.info/eng/main.htm
In the old times (pagan times) Santa Claus was a different character from todays´s. He/she was more like an animal, a buck and called…
The book where you can find this poem is written by Valerie Stalder. Legends and folktales of Lappland. London/Oxford, Mowbrays, 1972 ISBN 0-264-64582-0
(6. What the months say to each other in Lappland, s. 29-32)
Hope this helps you. The tale about the months is written in many books in Sami language. The very first time it was published by J. K. Qvigstad in: Lappiske eventyr og sagn, 1929.
