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 nutshell, 70 per cent of the personnel should have an education suitable for the library. That’s why it’s quite hard to get a job at the library without that education, at least in Helsinki and other big cities.
In addition, most of the libraries require that librarians speak Finnish, as it’s needed for customer service.
See also Facts about Finnish libraries at http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/library-branch/basic-information-about-fi….
The newspaper European Voice is not part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries (Helmet) collections. We have in use PressDisplay, which offers over 2,000 newspapers online, unfortunately European Voice is not included in the service.
You can book Library 10 Group Room in the same place where you can reserve computers. Max. time for reservation is 4 hours.
Go to Helmet mainpage and choose "Book a computer" http://www.helmet.fi/en-US
There you can find text “Book a computer or a workspace”
https://varaus.lib.hel.fi/default.aspx?cid=en-GB
Choose a library > Library 10. Select a page item “Show information”, so you can see that number 40 is Group Room and max. time for reservation is 4 hours.
At Library 10 website click workspaces so you can see Group Room 40 and make reservation.
Since I don't know which library you are going to, I can't give you a specific answer. Many public libraries will let you take photographs, but to be on the safe side, ask the staff when you get there if photographing is alright.
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!
You could give those books to Pasila Library in Helsinki. In Pasila Library, we have Multilingual Library with books in many languages not usually found in Finnish libraries. Without seeing the titles, I can’t say if those books were suitable for your collection.
For more information about Pasila Library, please see at http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Libraries_and_services/Pasila_Library.
Of course, it’s possible to sell those books to second-hand bookshops, but this may take much time. Many of them aren’t very interested in that kind of books. Second-hand bookshops in Finland can be found at http://www.tie.to/antikvariaatit/ and http://www.antikka.net.
Provided you have given us your email address, you can access the password recovery function:
https://luettelo.helmet.fi/pinreset~S9
In the case we do not have your email address, we shall change your PIN code at the service desk of any Helmet library. Please bring your ID with you.
http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Info/FAQ/FAQ__Troubleshooting(987)
There are some video cameras in Helmet libraries you can borrow. Here you can find the libraries:
http://haku.helmet.fi/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2021724__Svideokamerat__Ff…
Also from Finnish borrowing service Kuinoma you can rent and borrow goods for a cheap price from the private market. You find Kuinoma and cameras here:
http://www.kuinoma.fi/search/node/kamera
Here are some information about Kuinoma in English:
https://blogs.aalto.fi/systemsthinking/2012/12/17/mita-kuinoma/
The opening hours of the Tapiola library during the summer are from 8 am to 8 pm. As 3D printing in libraries is still on experimental stage, there are no fees. If you wish to know more about the service, you can call Tapiola library, number is 050 4289392.
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…
In Espoo, the Citizen Service Office is located in the Sello library and in some places it is quite near to a library, but libraries don't sell travel cards.
You can search for local travel card sales points in HSL pages
https://www.hsl.fi/en
If you mean long distance tickets, those can be found from Matkahuolto's pages
http://www.matkahuolto.fi/en
Hi! You can either pay the book in any of the HelMet-libraries or replace the book with a same book.
From our user regulations:
"Compensating for items and paying the fees
You will have to compensate for lost or damaged material by paying a price which is charged according to the item’s value registered in the library’s database. If you wish to substitute a similar item for the material lost or damaged, you will have to settle each case separately with the library."
http://www.helmet.fi/Preview/en-US/Info/Using_the_library/Fees(37613)
Yes, it is possible in Tikkurila kirjasto (music & media). If you want to reserve practicing time for yourself, please call 09 8392 3583.
Unfortunately this possibility is now mentioned only on the Finnish page http://www.helmet.fi/fi-FI/Kirjastot_ja_palvelut/Tikkurilan_kirjasto/Pa… but we will make the same entries in the English version as soon as possible.
Heikki Poroila
HelMet-musiikkivarasto
There are many Java manuals, and it’s hard to tell which of them is the best one. Here you have some new manuals that can be found in the HelMet and Helka collections:
Absolute Java / Walter Savitch (Pearson, 2010)
Java : how to program / Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel (Prentice Hall, cop. 2012)
Java and mac OS X / T Gene Davis (for Mac; Wiley Publishing, 2010)
Java for everyone : late objects / Cay Horstmann (John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
Java for programmers / Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel (Prentice Hall, 2009)
Java programming : from problem analysis to program design / D. S. Malik (Course technology, 2010)
Here you are a few websites about this serious problem and the main causes of it:
http://www.globalwaterforum.org/2012/07/30/indias-groundwater-crisis/co…
http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=356
http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/wbp/global-water-crisis/606#
Louis XIV was called the Sun King (“le Roi-Soleil” in French). He was born in 1638 and died in 1715. For more information, please see the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France.
In registration alias usually means some kind of nickname or alternative name. It can also mean something else, like in Yahoo email provider you can have an extension of your Yahoo account. Yahoo's alias masks your account's primary ID.
Yahoo! help: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/create-alias-sln3240.html
You can get a new pin code here: https://luettelo.helmet.fi/pinreset~S9. Just write down your library card number, and you will get the new code to your email.
If this doesn’t work, you can go to the library and show us your ID card or passport to get a new code.
From the website below you can find information about the only book boat in Finland. It is a library boat of Parainen (or Pargas in Swedish) in the Åboland archipelago in Western Finland:
http://slq.nu/?article=no-man-is-an-island-when-there-is-a-book-boat-se…
There is also a little video about this book boat in Kirjastokaista (Library channel):
http://www.kirjastokaista.fi/fi/bokbaten-vastabolands-skargardsbibliote…
First of all: if one cannot speak Finnish moderately well, there are quite few jobs at the library available. The customers have the right to get service on their own language.
There are some duties, where the fluent Finnish is not so necessary - like putting the returned books back to shelves and other technical jobs -, but the main question is, if the library really needs that kind of help. I would say, that many public libraries do not necessarily want volunteered people, unless they have some kind of experience with the library material or with customer services.
But in the end everything depends on the local circumstances and the thoughts of the chief librarian. You just got to visit one of them to know, if working in the library…
