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How looks the age distribution of the Ask A Librarian users? 3278 There is no study about the age distribution of our users, the only knowledge about it relies on a questionnaire we made last year. The people who answered our questionnaire, where under 18 years 14% 18-35 21% 36-45 12% 46-55 26% 56-65 21% over 65 6% This tells off course firstly about who answers questionnaires, but also something about our users. As you can see the age distribution is quite even, whe have people asking questions from every age group. The is a power-point about the questionnaire, but it is in Finnish. It can be found under this page, which tells about our national meeting day http://www.kirjastot.fi/Page/15c00449-390e-4489-ba31-b9f49ab0e267.aspx , questionnaire slides http://www.kirjastot.fi/File/33c525c4-72ee-4e...st%c3%…
Why optical fibre discks should be keep away from magnate? 2120 Permanent magnets and strong electromagnets may damage data that has been recorded on the computers diskettes and on the video cassettes, because the information is on these in a magnetic form. Source (in Finnish): http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/astel-ope/sahko/magneettinen_tiedon_tallennu… Fiber Optic Cables are immunity to electromagnetic disturbance and its signal transmission characteristics make it the ideal support for high-speed data transmission. There occurs no electromagnetic radiation. The light waves travel along the optical core which is made from silica, melted quartz or plastic. Sources: http://www.cablofil.com/content.aspx?page=123&section=60 http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7241954-description.html Find more about the…
Were can I find information about the russian Baron Vladimir von Clewesahl-Steinheil and his family? In the beginning of the 19th century he was in Finland,… 325 You can ask advice of National Archive of Finland. www.narc.fi
What is the definition of e-print? 1810 Wikipedia's article has a nice definition of e-print: "An eprint is a digital version of a research document (usually a journal article, but could also be a thesis, conference paper, book chapter, or a book) that is accessible online, whether from a local Institutional, or a central (subject- or discipline-based) Digital Repository." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eprint
Could you give me a list of relevant literature for seminar theme: Sociological aspects of suicide? 2111 The most famous classic about sociological aspects of suicide is Émile Durkheim's "Suicide: A Study in Sociology", which was originally published in 1897. The book is still relevant and many studies concerning suicide has Durkheim as the starting point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim Steve Taylor's "Sociology of Suicide" (Longman, 1988) and Anthony Gidden's "Sociology of Suicide: A Selection of Readings" (1971) might be also useful to you. But I think the most convenient way to start your study is by searching from the internet. We recommend Google Scholar, which has access to many scientific databases: http://scholar.google.com/ Good keywords for your search would be: 'suicide', 'sociology', 'social', 'sociological…
Who is the designer BJ Dahlquist ( or Dahlqvist) and when did he design furniture? 4202 Do you mean Bjarne Dahlqvist? He is Finnish inventor and entrepreneur, who has started the famous furniture factory BD Möbel: http://www.bdmobel.com/ We found no personal information about Bjarne Dahlqvist, but maybe you could ask directly from the company. Few months ago Finnish TV broadcasted a documentary about him. The documentary was called "Yrittaja Bjarne" and it was about him and his businesses in Estonia.
ARBA , Walford's , D.+B.Rare Book , D.+ B. Special Collection , World Cataloge , Publisher Directory. What are them? I need information about them. 11411 ARBA is American Reference Books Annual: http://www.arbaonline.com/ Walford's is a guide to different kind of reference material: http://www.abe.com.pl/html/english/details.php?id=1856040151 World Catalogue is the world's largest network of library content and services: http://www.worldcat.org/ Publisher Directory is a directory of information about publishers. D.+B. Rare Book and D.+B. Special Collection are unfamiliar to me, but I think they are book catalogues.
Could You be so kind to recommend to me the most popular Finnish children books (evergreens)? Books should be written by Finnish author and not necessarily… 972 I will base my answer on an enquiry carried out by Helsingin Sanomat in 2004 (www.helsinginsanomat.fi/extrat/erikoissivu/1076153242285). 2080 people answered to this enquiry by giving the titles of childrens books that were dearest to them. Some can well be defined as “evergreens”. Although the answers included books by foreign autors too, I will only list those by Finnish authors. The books on Moomins by Tove Jansson are cherished and enjoyed by young and adults. Jansson began writing the Moomin-books in 1945. She wrote 9 novels on the Moomins. Her production on the Moomins includes 9 novels, picture books and cartoons. Beside the Moomins, Jansson has plenty of other literary works. Her mother tongue was Swedish, thus her works were…
I would like to know about the program "Luku-Suomi", it ended in 2004, right? However, there are not many papers or reports about it in English. I need to… 3929 Luku-Suomi ("Reading Finland") project was in years 2001-2004. The municipal libraries took part in the project by doing different projects with schools. They did mainly book talks or something similar. For example in 2001 Helsinki City Library organized Reading October -event in which librarians did book talks in schools and libraries for children aged 7-10. Different libraries participated to the project in various ways. In addition to book talks, librarians worked closely with schools as consultants. I found a couple websites in English about Raading Finland: 1. http://www.oph.fi/attachment.asp?path=1;443;4160;4681;42165;51564 2. http://www.oph.fi/english/pageLast.asp?path=447,65535,77331,77333,77341
Please guide me to the best source on Finnish designers - (dates etc.) available on the Internet - Authority file ? 1039 A good source for finnish designers is http://www.finnishdesign.fi/home On the left of this page in blue: "About us", you can find more information. For example DESIGN MUSEUM has very good pages under this file. LINKS is also good to look at. Gallery has some older designers featured. On the whole these pages have a lot of information about Finnish design and designers.
Can you provide me with a good source to begin researching my family who came from Etelavartsala, Kustavi. Thank you for any assistance you can provide. 200 For an English speaking person there are two informative web sources of Finnish genealogy: The Swedish-Finn Historical Society, based in Seattle, has all-English web pages. There you can for example discuss your case in The Finlander Forum, which has specific threads for genealogy, relatives search etc. Please be sure to check also the links provided in the pages. http://sfhs.eget.net/portal/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 One of the links leads to the English pages of The Genealogical Society of Finland. Among other things the society maintains HisKi, a complementing database of old church records. HisKi contains lists of christenings, marriages, burials and moves. It is also possible to register to a mailing list where people…
Can I get a book on the social services? I want to know what is all about and to know more about it? 731 I searched from Helsinki metropolitan area's library database Helmet, http://www.helmet.fi/ . I found the following about social services in English: 1. Richards, Judy: "The complete A-Z health & social care handbook" (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999) 2. Niemelä, Heikki: "Social security in Finland" (Helsinki, Social Insurance Institution, 2006) 3. "The third sector in Finland : review to research of the Finnish third sector" editors: Martti Siisiäinen, Petri Kinnunen, Elina Hietanen (Finnish Federation for Social Welfare and Health, 2000) 4. "What are we doing there? : experiences and lessons learned from development cooperation in health care and social welfare (1990-2005)" editors: Ursula Aaltonen and Simo Mannila (National Research…
What are some medicine plants in the Daintree Rainforest? 2169 Here you can read about the flora in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia: http://www.daintreerainforest.com/flora.html. They say on this site, that the Daintree rainforest is home to one of the highest populations of primitive flowering plants in the world. These ancient plant families may hold secrets to a number of unanswered questions regarding the origins of the flowering plants - plants on which the human race depends for food and medicines. In the Daintree Rainforest many of the plants are deadly poisonous. Medicine plants are often poisonous if wrongly used. There are also plants that are harmful when touched.
As an American tourist I will be in the Pulkkila area in June, and need to find sleeping accomodations there or nearby for my wife and myself. Please name… 1071 There are some summer accomodations available in the Siikalatva area to which Pulkkila also belongs. The page in the address http://www.metsainfo.fi/index.php?page=_ravintolat&type=6&lang=fi shows you the area of Siikalatva on the map. The nearest city is Oulu. The Names and addresses of the summer hotels and cottages in Piippola are as follows: Piippolan vaarin kesähotelli Piippolan käsi- ja taideteollisuusoppilaitos Keskustie 29 92620 Piippola Puh: (08) 8119 111 Haapavesi Hotelli Haapakannel Vanhatie 47 p. 08 - 452 370, fax 08 - 450 520 Rantsila Taukoranta Ky Nelostie 1500 p. 08 - 253 790 Lamun Loma Niemelänkuja 2 A 92920 Ahokylä Seppo Piippo Gsm. 040-5045 605 Juhani Mahosenaho Gsm. 050-3486 994, 040-5483197 email: seppo.piippo.@…
Does Eddie Cooley`s song Fever have finnish lyrics? I mean, has anyone translate this song lyrics into finnish language? If somebody has, where can i find this… 826 Kari Tuomisaari has written the Finnish lyrics to the song. The Finnish version is called "Kuume". The most famous interpretation of the song is Laila Kinnunen's version from 1959. Many artists have recorded the song afterwards.
Names and Email addresses of sleeping accomodations in Piippola? 974 Thank you for you inquiry. We are happy to help you. Piippola is a small place and they have only one place to stay overnight. The place is called Shell matkahuolto. Their phonenumber is +358-8-8120211. Email-address: shell.piippola@co.inet.fi Address: Piippolan Shell, Kestilantie 1, 92620 Piippola, Finland
Do you have some book dealing with modern slavery? 535 Yes, we have several books about modern slavery in English. The books listed below are available in Helsinki, Vantaa or Espoo City Libraries: -Cox, Caroline: "This immoral trade - slavery in the 21st century" (Monarch, 2006) -Bales, Kevin: "Disposable people - new slavery in the global economy" (University of California Press, 2000) -Ali, Miriam: "Without mercy - a woman's struggle against modern slavery" (1995) -"The slavery reader" edited by Gad Heuman and James Walvin (Routledge, 2003) -Bales, Kevin: "New Slavery : a refence handbook (ABC-Clio, 2000) You can search the books from our catalogue by using Helmet search: http://www.helmet.fi/search~S9/X
Would you please be so kind as to let me know what the official abbreviations are for Finnish months? For example is the letter k required and then a period,… 673 Abreviations for months in Finnish are tammik., helmik., maalisk. and so on with k and dot. K is the first consonant of the second part of a compound and dot is for the omitted part of a compound. Source: Nykysuomen sanakirja, osa 5, Lyhenteet, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Porvoo, 1989, p. 299.
Cual es la flor autentica de groenlandia 3052 El origen de las flores de Groenlandia es generalmente Europa, pero la flor nacional de Groenlandia, Niviarsiaq (Chamaenerion latifolium), origenates de America del Norte. La flora de Groenlandia es del mismo tipo que la flora en la zona arctica. http://www.greenland.com/content/english/tourist/nature_climate/flora_o… http://www.arctic-adventure.dk/img/photos/niviarsiaq_200.jpg http://www.kayak-north.com/Niviarsiaq%20august_small.JPG
A catalan friend taught me about the existence of this catalan government webpage (I'm sending you here the link to the english webpage dealing with it) http:/… 781 There isn't any decent translator programs (Finnish to English, English to Finnish) that function on the public domain basis and are free for users. You can try the following service: http://www.sunda.fi/online_demo.html The service is only a demo version and it accepts sentences, which has 60 or less characters. There is also an international site, which isn't working at the moment http://christianreunion.org/transurl.htm