| I am looking for information about a specific activity within the Nordic Countries social security system. Some of these countries send their senior citizen to… |
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5.4.2011 |
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In Finland there are certain links of our social security system for the seniors:
1.Finland
http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/081101151020EH?OpenDocum…
http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/081101151613EH?OpenDocum…
(english)
http://www.kunnat.net/sv/sakkunnigtjanster/social-halsovard/social%20se…
http://www.statskontoret.fi/public/default.aspx?nodeid=16205
http://www.omaishoitajat.fi/omaishoitajien-tuetut-lomat-ray
(not in english, sw, fin)
2. Nordic countries
http://nososco-eng.nom-nos.dk/
(of Nordic countries, publications in electronic form)
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| Is there any library where I can rent ice skates? |
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11.2.2019 |
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You can borrow skates in some libraries in Helsinki and Espoo. You find those libraries if you make in Helmet a search by the word luistimet and the refine the search result by format object.
In Helsinki there are skates in Pukinmäki, Herttoniemi, Jakomäki, Tapulikaupunki and Vuosaari Libraries. It is not possible to reserve the skates, so You can check the availability in Helmet.
https://haku.helmet.fi/iii/encore/search/C__Sluistimet__Ff%3Afacetmediatype%3Aq%3Aq%3AObject%3A%3A__Orightresult__U__X0?lang=eng&suite=cobalt |
| I am looking for some information about the bookstore of anni Liljefors in Abo/Turku round 1900.Did she have a business relation with Forlag Hans A.Hanson in… |
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28.4.2009 |
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The only thing we were able to find out about the bookstore of Anni Liljefors was the name and the phone number of the bookstore in the telephone directory of the year 1905. It sold at least school books (Skolbokshandeln / Koulukirjakauppa). So we can verify that the bookstore existed but no other information was found.
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| I am researching the 1934 wedding in Port Germein , South Australia, of Barbara Strachey, an English woman, to Olaf Hultin, said to be the son of the Professor… |
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4.3.2011 |
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I am sorry to say that we could not find any direct answers to your question. Probably the wedding was not as enormous publicity event in Finland as in Australia.
Some information of the father of Olaf Hultin, Arvid Hultin, we found rather easily - for instance, he was not a professor at classics, but a librarian in the University Library of Helsinki (or National Library of Finland, as it is nowadays called) and in addition a researcher of literature. It might be possible that the National Library might have some archives of their former employees and there might be more information on his descendants. The contact information of the National Library can be found here:
http://www.nationallibrary.fi/infoe/contacts.html
Furthermore, if the… |
| Im starting a bar job soon and i need to learn about drinks. mainly about irsh whiskeys and differences between them. Does the library have books on them in… |
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7.8.2008 |
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Here are some books about whisky in English found in HelMet Web Library : Banks, Iain: Raw spirit: in search of the perfect dram (2003); McIvor, Doug: Scotch whisky: top single malts (1999); Wisniewski, Ian: The classic whisky handbook: an essential companion to the world’s finest whiskies (1998); Arthur, Helen : The single malt whisky companion: a connoisseur’s guide (1997) and Shaw, Carol P.: Whisky (1996). You can check the availability of the books in online catalogue www.helmet.fi. Good luck in your new job.
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| I would like to know if you have some document (reports, statisticals, proceedings, etc.) about your Ask a Librarian. |
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16.7.2007 |
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Some basic information about Ask a Librarian is published on our site, http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/ask_librarian/about/ and in the Libraries.fi Library Branch-channel, Articles, papers, presentations, travel reports under the heading Libraries.fi, http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/library_branch/articles/ . There are also answers about the service in the archive, http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/ask_librarian/archive.aspx search with keyword Ask a Librarian.
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| Is it possible to know the plot of the following novels by Auni Nuolivaara: "Paimen, piika ja emäntä", “Isäntä ja emäntä” and “Päivä ja ehtoo” ? |
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3.1.2007 |
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Auni Nuolivaaras trilogy Paimen, piika ja emäntä (1936), Isäntä ja emäntä (1937) and Päivä ja ehtoo (1938) tells the story of Katri. Katri lives in Finnish countryside in the 19th century. She is a shepherd girl who became a mistress of a big house.
None of Nuolivaaras books have been translated in English.
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| I am a japanese student. I bought the book "suomea suomeksi" to study suomi. If it is possible , I want to join a suomi class where they use this textbook. If… |
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18.5.2011 |
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Adult Education Centre in Jyväskylä (in the City Library building, Vapaudenkatu 39-41) has Finnish for foreigners courses. I am not sure if they have courses in the summertime, but they will have next autumn (enrolment in August). Last semester they used a book called Hyvin menee, but the book for the next semester has not been decided.
Adult Education Centre: http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/kansalaisopisto/inenglish
University Language Centre has also Finnish courses for students: https://kielikeskus.jyu.fi/opetus/suomi-toisena-ja-vieraana-kielena/en/…
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| I am an American (in New Orleans, Louisiana) considering moving out of the country and Finland is one of my top choices. What degree in Finland is required to… |
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18.11.2014 |
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There are requirements based on the Finnish Library decree. You can find that at http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/library-branch/basic-information-about-fi…, Section 4. In nuthell, 70 per cent of the personnel should have an education suitable for library. 45 per cent should have “a university degree comprising or supplemented with higher education studies in library and information sciences of a minimum extent of 60 ECTS points” or “a polytechnic degree comprising or supplemented with higher education studies in library and information sciences of a minimum extent of 60 ECTS points”.
According to KVTES (a collective agreement; http://flash.kuntatyonantajat.fi/kvtes-2014-2016/html/), a basic salary for a librarian in municipal libraries is… |
| I need to know which businesses distribute kids' DVDs to stores and public libraries in Finland, and which businesses have PayTV for kids programming in… |
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8.6.2009 |
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I assume that the enquirer is not asking for retail shops where private persons purchase their dvd’s.
Public libraries buy their dvd’s mostly from the following importers and wholesalers:
- BTJ Finland Oy, http://www.btj.fi/ (in Finnish and in Swedish; e-mail asiakaspalvelu(at)btj.fi )
- Oy Tibo-Trading Ab, http://www.tibo.net/?l=en
- Oy Kielipalvelu, e-mail tilaukset(at)kielipalvelu.com
- AV-palvelu, http://www.avpalvelut.fi/ (in Finnish, e-mail avpalvelut(at)avpalvelut.fi),
- Kaleva Telemarketing, e-mail kaleva(at)kotiposti.net
- Futurefilm, http://www.futurefilm.fi/index.php (in Finnish, e-mail tilaukset(at)futurefilm.fi
As to dvd stores, you can ask some of them about their importers:
- Anttila, http://www.anttila.fi/in_brief.html
-… |
| I am looking for information about Finland, climate, agriculture, import or exports. |
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13.1.2004 |
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You will find good information
about the climate in Finland from the Finnish Meteorological Institute:
http://www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/en/index.html
about the agriculture from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry: http://www.mmm.fi/english/
about the trade from the Ministry of Trade and Industry: http://www.ktm.fi/index.phtml?menu_id=1&lang=3
and accurate statistical information from numerous subjects from the website of Statistics Finland: http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/index_en.html
More information about Finland You will find for example from http://www.finland.fi/
There is collection of information available in English on Finland's public sector organizations and public services. Most of the information is from the online services… |
| I have some books at my place that I would like to get rid of, is it possible for me to give those books to the Helsinki HELMET library? |
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25.5.2009 |
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Helsinki City Library accepts book donations with pleasure. You could ask your nearest library if they can take books to their collection. Library staff evaluate the donation and decide to take books to collection or not. Library staff pick and choose material according to what kind of material is lacking from collection. Worn out books libraries don't accept.
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| I am learning a Finnish song set to the text of Mita kaikatat kivonen from the Kanteletar. It is a beautiful Finnish piece composed by a Finnish composer… |
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9.9.2013 |
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This poem is about problems in getting married, but the the text is quite impossible to translate in English or in any other language as well. The poem's language is very archaic Finnish and hard to understand even for most of the Finns nowadays.
Heikki Poroila
Vantaa City Library, Finland
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| Where do i find the traditional dance in Finland? |
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26.9.2005 |
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You can find information about the finnish folk dancing e.g. in the pages Folk dancing of Virtual Finland,
http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=27060 .
You might study following books
Old Finnish folk dances / edited by Sari Heikkilä ; [illustration by Timo Hukkanen]. Helsinki : Suomalaisen kansantanssin ystävät, 1988.
Collan, Anni, Dances of Finland / Anni Collan and Yngvar Heikel ; [illustrated by Valerie Prentis]. London : Max Parrish & Company, 1950.
You could also contact The Finnish Dance Information Centre, http://www.danceinfo.fi/english/ and Finnish folklore association, http://www.kansantanssinyst.fi/ fur further information.
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| Could you refer me to a place that would give information on family in Jurva,Vassalaami,Finland? |
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17.4.2003 |
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Star with www.genealogy.org, a finnish genealogy site where you can find practically every tool for searching, even search in the church records yourself. One of the most useful sites is:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/rg/guide/Finland1.asp
that can help you to get started. There you can also find the contact information of eg provincial archives that you directly can contact and ask questions.
The Finnish Institute if Migration (http://www.utu.fi/erill/instmigr/index_e.htm) has a searchable database as well.
This was just briefly - but feel free to ask us more if you think we can help you!
Leena Salminen
Vaasan City Library Regional Library
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| Can I have a list music CDs in Helsinki main (or other in other libraries as well) which are related with Cuban (Cuba) music? In which library and where in… |
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2.12.2002 |
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You will find our bibliographic database at http://www.libplussa.fi/#en .
Go to the "Basic search" . Choose "Subject heading or class" and type "Kuuba" as search word. In the menu "Display All kinds of items" choose "Only CDs". Search.
(Unfortunately you have to use subject headings in Finnish, because our bibliographic records are in Finnish. If you choose title search you can also type Cuba# in English - note the truncation mark - but in that case you will get less references and not all of them are necessarily relevant.)
In the database you will also see the availability of the CDs in different libraries. The largest music collections in general are at Pasila Music Station, Töölö, Itäkeskus and Kallio libraries.
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| Writing this message I'd like to ask is there any possibility to make EVS in Finnish libraries for a Turkish MLIS student who is working as a school librarian… |
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3.4.2015 |
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In Finnish libraries, there are only few volunteers, and it’s usually necessary that they can speak Finnish. I don’t know if there have been any EVS volunteers in Finnish libraries, but you are free to try by contacting libraries. Each library has its own volunteering policy, so you should send email those libraries you are interested in. You can find contact information for Finnish libraries at http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/libraries/.
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| I have 1 book which is overdue and have to return back to Library 10 in Helsinki. Unfortunately I wont visit Helsinki on this month and would like to return it… |
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27.6.2008 |
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You may return the library book by mail, the address to Library 10 is:
Kirjasto 10
Elielinaukio 2 G
P.O. Box 4200
If the book happens to get lost in the mail, it will be your responsibility to compensate for it by paying the compensation charge ordered by the owner of the book, the city library in question.
Books can also be renewed three times either at our www.helmet.fi homepage or by telephone. To renew items through the Net you need a PIN code that you can only acquire by visiting a city library in the Helsinki region. The Library 10 telephone number is 09-31085000. Renewals cannot be made if you have unpaid library fees that exceed 5€.
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| Can you tell me when were the first public libraries appeared in Finland? And where they were built? Thank you. |
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13.9.2008 |
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Public libraries in Finland celebrated their bicentennial in 1994. The founding meeting of the Vaasa Reading Society in the Province of Ostrobothnia on the west coast of Finland took place on the 2nd of August 1794. Although the reading Society was originally meant for its members and partners, other people were also allowed to borrow books for payment. The Reading Society in Vaasa was thus both a "proprietary" and "subscription" library. (Ilkka Mäkinen: Reading Societies in Finland, in Yleiset kirjastot Suomessa. Vaasa 1994, p.104)
The library of the Vaasa Reading Society can be considered to be the beginning of public libraries in Finland. The first public library in Helsinki was founded in 1819, and in Viipuri a public library was… |
| I'm a librarian and here our field called "Library and Information Sciences" I wanna know what do you call the field especially in universities of Finland… |
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7.9.2012 |
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At the moment you can be qualified as an librarian in Finland both in some universities and in some unversities of applied sciences.
In the University of Tampere the programme is called Information Studies and Interactive Media:
http://www.uta.fi/sis/en/iti/index.html
In the University of Oulu the programme is called Information Studies:
http://www.oulu.fi/education/education-programmes/informaatiotutkimukse…
In Seinäjoki, Turku and Oulu Universities of Applied Sciences the programme is called Programme in Library and Information Services:
http://www.seamk.fi/In_English/Studies/Degree_programmes_in_Finnish.iw3
http://www.oamk.fi/koulutus_ja_hakeminen/nuoret_suomenkielinen/kulttuur…
http://www.turkuamk.fi/public/default.aspx?nodeid=17001… |
