2011 Vallila library's collection was about 26 000 items and there was 163 000 loans.
Book in finnish form the main part of the collection (21 000 items) but there are also books in swedish and english (about 2 000), dvds (700), cds (1800)
You don’t need to buy Kalevala: you can find it from Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7000. Kalevala is a very old book so it’s not copyrighted anymore. You can read and copy it as you like. You can download Kalevala in a format suitable for you. There is also the English version at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5186.
"Unfortunately it`s very difficult to to get a job in a library in Finland if you don`t know finnish, even if you have education as an librarian. If you are e.g native english speaker, there are of course some possibilities to work in certain organizations or communities without knowing finnish."
Source:
http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/ask_librarian/question.aspx?ID=9dc54a99-a…
Open vacancies:
Employment and Economic Development Office of Finland:
http://www.mol.fi/mol/en/index.jsp
People in remote areas get books by lending them in Bookbuses or Mobile libraries.
I got the question to here Rovaniemi, Northern Finland. But the same is in the remote places in Eastern Finland or Ostrobothnia.
There are bookbuses in 12 municipalicities from 21municipalities in Lapland and two bookbuses, which are common with many communities also in Sweden and Norway.
http://www.utsjoki.fi/media/Sivistystoimi/Kirjasto/BokbussRuteplan2012…
http://www.muonio.fi/fi/opiskelu-ja-vapaa-aika/bokbussen.html
“Collaboration with the neighbouring area also involves the activities of two mobile libraries: the Muonio mobile library runs in four municipalities in Finland, in Sweden and Norway and the Karasjoki mobile library in three…
You can book the piano room in Library 10 by phone or via Internet. The phone number is 09 3108 5000. The room can also be booked at https://varaus.lib.hel.fi/?cid=en-GB. Choose “Library 10” and click “Show available times”. Then check “Workspaces” and choose the number 41 (“Practice room Electric piano”). You need your library card number and pin code when booking the room.
Here are some books that might help you:
Books in Finnish University Libraries:
http://linda.linneanet.fi
Larsson, Göran: Islam and muslims in Sweden : integration or fragmentation? : a contextual study. (Berlin 2007)
Gustafsson Figueroa, Kerstin: För Guds skull : muslimer i Sverige (Stockholm 2007)
Otterbeck, Jonas: Islam, muslimer och den svenska skolan (Lund 2000)
Mellanöstern här [redaktör: Claes Wahlöö]. (Lund 2004)
Roald, Anne Sofie: Muslimer i nya samhällen : om individuella och kollektiva rättigheter (Göteborg 2009)
Andersson, Åsa: Där hemma, här borta : möten med Orienten i Sverige och Norge (Stockholm 2001)
Carlbom, Aje: The imagined versus the real other : multiculturalism and the representation of muslims in Sweden (Lund…
I couldn't find the books you asked for in any library in Finland but both books can be found in Stockholm, Sweden. "The diary of Selma Lagerlöf" is available in Stockholm City Library and you can make an interlibrary loan for that book. "Memories of My Childhood" can be found in Kungliga Biblioteket (National Library of Sweden) but it seems the book can be used only in the Reading Room. You can also send your question to a swedish "Ask a Librarian -service" Bibblan svarar: http://bibblansvarar.se/
http://www.kb.se/english/
https://biblioteket.stockholm.se/en/start
Do you mean latest library building built in Finland? I can´t name the latest but Helsinki University Library's City Centre Campus Library should be finished in the spring of 2012. The building will be named 'the Kaisa Building' after Kaisaniemi neighbourhood.
More information:
http://www.helsinki.fi/library/citycentre/about/library2012.html
Pictures:
http://twilightcola.blogspot.com/2012/03/kaisa-talo.html
A song called "Paimenen laulu" (or Paimenlaulu = A shepherd's song) was translated and published by composer P.J.Hannikainen at the beginning of 1900's. It is said to be composed by A. Klauwell (though it might as well be a folk tune).
The complete Finnish lyrics are available at Wikisource page http://fi.wikisource.org/wiki/Paimenen_laulu_(Hannikainen)
Sheet music can be found for example in the songbook "Suuri toivelaulukirja 10".
There are no Englis lyrics for this song, but a rough translation would go like this:
1. I am a young shepherd, happy as a bird. All day long I play on my birch bark horn. 2. When the cattle bells are ringin, and birds are singing too. I like to answer them on my birch bark horn. 3.
When the evening comes, I…
In Finland you can study information studies in many places depending on the level you want to reach.
You can do higher level studies at Univeristy of Tampere, Univeristy of Oulu and Åbo Academy University. At university you can do Master's degree or Bachelor's degree (lower academic degree) in information studies. It is also possible to do the Licentiate and the Doctoral Degree studies. There are also researchers at the branch.
If you have a Master´s degree your title or graduate profile can be e.g Information Management Specialist, Information Specialist, Librarian, Chief Librarian or Head of Information Services.
You can also study information studies at polytechnic schools in Oulu, Turku and Seinäjoki. At polytechnic you can do…
Here are some links that might help you:
Finland. Health Care Systems in Transition:
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/80693/E74071.pdf
Terveydenhuolto Suomessa: http://www.stm.fi/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=28707&name=DLFE-…
Finland and WHO:
http://www.stm.fi/en/ministry/international_cooperation/who
http://www.stm.fi/stm/kansainvaliset_asiat/who
http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/tervesuomi/item/ktl:15672
http://www.helsinki.fi/kirjasto/terkko/who/
Books about health care system in Helmet Web Library:
Alkio, Mikko: Terveyden kustannuksella : miksi terveydenhuoltojärjestelmä on uudistettava? (WSOY 2011)
Quite a new book about finnish health care system
http://www.helmet.fi/record=b1993260~S9*fin
You should contact The National Archives (Arkistolaitos) and there the Provincial Archives of Vaasa. You will find the contact information here:
http://www.arkisto.fi/en/arkistolaitos/maakunta-arkistot/vaasan-maakunt…
God sources of information to the genealogist also here:
http://www.arkisto.fi/en/palvelut/sukututkijoille/
At the website of KT Kuntatyönantajat (KT Local government employers) you can find the statistics of avarage salary of municipal employers. They are unhappily only in Finnish. The avarage salary of the librarian in 2010 was 2202 euros.
You can find statistics from the website so:
http://www.kuntatyonantajat.fi/fi/Sivut/default.aspx > tilastot > tilastot palkoista > KVTES:n kes-kimääräiset palkat ja niiden desiilit, lokakuu 2010 > KVTES palkkatilastoliite 2010.
In the year 2010 12 017 books were published in Finland. 2 432 of them were translations into Finnish and 112 into Swedish. In 2008 815 childrens books were published. At this moment it is not possible to have newer information about childrens books because of the updating the statistics of Suomen kustannusyhdistys (the Finnish Book Publishers Association):
http://www.kustantajat.fi/en/
Sources of information:
- Tilastokeskus (Statistics Finland, http://www.stat.fi/)
http://www.stat.fi/tup/suoluk/suoluk_kulttuuri.html#kirjallisuus
- Kansalliskirjasto (The National Library of Finland, http://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/index.html)
http://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/julkaisuala/tilastot.html
- Suomen tilastollinen vuosikirja (Statistical…
Helmet libraries do have the following books in english:
Baugh, Gail: The fashion designer's textile directory : the creative use of fabrics in design (London 2011)
http://www.helmet.fi/record=b1994546~S9*fin
New textile design (Köln 2010)
http://www.helmet.fi/record=b1984804~S9*fin
Dawber, Martin: New fashion print (London 2008)
http://www.helmet.fi/record=b1879918~S9*fin
Colchester, Chloë: Textiles today : a global survey of trends and traditions (London 2007)
http://www.helmet.fi/record=b1853786~S9*fin
Gillow, John: African textiles : colour and creativity across a continent (London 2009)
http://www.helmet.fi/record=b1920069~S9*fin
Fogg, Marnie: Print in fashion : design and development in textile fashion (London 2006)
http://www.…
In Erno Paasilinna's book, the name of Pekurinen's executioner is Otto Asiainen. Corporal Asiainen was a 21-year-old carpenter from Lestijärvi. He agreed to shoot Pekurinen after the first candidates to carry out the task, sergeant Joonas Kivelä and private Kaarlo Kinnunen had declined captain Pentti Valkonen's request.
The user regulations may vary from one library to another, but at least here in HelMet libraries (Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries) it is not necessary to have a Finnish social security number to get a library card. You only have to have an address in Finland and present a valid ID card or passport. If you do not have a Finnish social security number, your library card will only be valid for six months at a time. After that period, you have to visit the library to renew the validity of the library card.
Check the user regulations at http://www.helmet.fi/search~S9/ -> Help -> User regulations.
The nearest libraries to your area are Nöykkiö and Entresse libraries. You can go to either one and ask the librarian to make a reservation of the book 'Suomen mestari 1' for you. You can also make a reservation through internet www.helmet.fi, but if you have not used it before, you could ask the librarian to show you how to use it.
Here are the opening hours and address of these two libraries:
Nöykkiö
Opening hours Mon, Tue, Thu 14-20, Wed, Fri 9-16, Sat 10-16
Address Oxfotintie 4
Mailing address PL 3613, 02070 ESPOON KAUPUNKI
Telephone 09 8165 7734
E-mail Kirjasto.Noykkio@espoo.fi
Homepage Nöykkiön kirjasto
Entresse
Opening hours Mon-Fri 8.30-20, Sat 10-16, Sun 12-18
Address Siltakatu 11
Mailing address PL 3605, 02070 ESPOON KAUPUNKI…
There is a pure practical reason for that.
Since 2004 we use new standardized letters and numbers in Finland. In the new system the numbers 1 and 7 are very easily mixed up. That is what happens often in the election of the parlament.
There are eight candidates, and to avoid any confusion the presidential candidates bear no number one.
Sources:
http://www03.edu.fi/oppimateriaalit/kirjainuudistus/numerot_ja_muut_mer…
http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/artikkeli/Arvaa+mitk%C3%A4+n%C3%A4ist%C3%A4…
