If You have reserved a computer and someone is using it, You can go to him/her and say that You have reserved the computer and now is Your turn to use it.
It often happens that the person who had reserved the previous time uses the computer until the next person comes.
If You still have problems to access the computer You have reserved please approach the library staff.
You could try the site of the Finnish Genealogical Society at http://www.genealogia.fi/indexe.htm . You could also contact The Karstula Parish (usually the parish archives are the best source of information for genealogical studies), contact details at http://www.evl.fi/ (unfortunately only in Finnish). There is also the site of Karstula commune at http://www.karstula.fi/ (mostly in Finnish again). Hopefully these are of some help!
Finland is situated in northern Europe between the 60th and 70th parallels of latitude. A quarter of its total area lies north of the Arctic Circle. Finland's neighbouring countries are Sweden, Norway and Russia, which have land borders with Finland, and Estonia across the Gulf of Finland.
Finland is a rebublic. More information is to be found for example from the homepage of Parliament of Finland ( http://www.eduskunta.fi/ ).
In Virtual Finland ( http://virtual.finland.fi/ ) You'll find among others a short history about finnish parliamentarism ( http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/components.html )
Current political event worth mentioning is the municipal election in October this year.
Here are some more links that You might find…
You could visit these webadresses: http://www.alvaraalto.fi/alvar/buildings/index.htm
http://www.alvaraalto.fi/info/guide/index.htm
and http://www.alvaraalto.fi/viipuri/index.htm
and from http://www.alvaraalto.fi/museum/ you can find much more interesting info. - Naturally there are lots of books about Alvar Aalto, also in English.
Some of them you can find from our Lapin kirjasto
database, only write Aalto, Alvar to the subject heading in http://intro.rovaniemi.fi:8001/Intro?formid=form2&sesid=1105517099&ulan…
Maybe part of them are no more available in bookstores.
There are two university libraries which possess a copy of IBM and the Holocaust, Åbo Akademi and Tampere. Links to their websites are on this page http://www.libraries.fi/en-gb/libraries/university_polytechnic_librarie… . It seems that none of the public libraries have the book in their collections. Links to the websites of public libraries are here http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/ .
The central Finnish journal of business economics called "Talouselämä" traditionally publishes a list of 500 Finnish top companies. The web address of the journal is
http://www.talouselama.fi
The third link from the left on the main page, YRITYSTIETO, gives you the list, which is also available in English.
Contact information for the companies is not shown, so you should look for it in some company register, for instance
http://www.europages.net
It is very difficult to find literature concerning your question, but you can browse for example the Google with the following search terms: state regulations baltic sea area “sea transport”.
Here are a couple web-addresses which deal with the subject:
http://www.balticsea.net/
http://www.meriliitto.fi/?l=en&p=14
You can’t view marriage records - if you mean official records which are kept by local register offices (maistraatti = http://www.maistraatti.fi/en/index.html ). They work together with The Population Register Center, which holds information on all Finnish citizens: (http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi/vrk/home.nsf/pages/index_eng).
From the church (parishes) you get literary information about their members but you have to know the parish where the person is living.
To get information about an individual from these registers costs.
Some public libraries hold collections of old parish registers (mostly from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries). You can find old marriage information on these microfilms, too.
The Finnish grammar is available in the internet. On the following sites you’ll find it both in
English and in French:
http://www.uta.fi/~km56049/finnish/
http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi/
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnois
The following titles offer you the Finnish grammar in book form, one of them in French.
- Fred Karlsson: Finnish- an essential grammar, Routledge 1999, ISBN 0415207045
- Merja Karjalainen and Helena Sulkala: Finnish, Routledge 1992, ISBN 0415026431
- Limnell, Eija: Finnois express (Finlande) : guide de conversation, les premiers mots utiles, notions de grammaire, culture et civilisation, renseignements pratiques, Editions du Dauphin 2006
ISBN 2-7163-1323-7
I guess you'd have more useful info if you contact any American information service, but we could gather something for you, though the texts themselves are mostly American anyway. In the Finnish university libraries' database I could find a couple of books.
- Artist and identity in twentieth-century America / Matthew Baigell. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. (Includes chapters American art and national identity: the 1920s, and The beginnings of "The American wave" and the Depression.)
- Historicizing lifestyle : mediating taste, consumption and identity from the 1900s to 1970s / edited by David Bell, Joanne Hollows. Aldershot, England : Ashgate Burlington, VT , cop. 2006. (Includes chapter Depression and recovery : self-help…
Searching the online catalogue of Tampere university and using the search words ‘Scandinavian party system’ gives you one result:
- Berglund, Sten: The Scandinavian party system(s): a comparative study, Lund:Studentlitteratur,1978
Seaching in internet you'll have more relevant search results by using search maschines for scientific information only like the Scirus (http://www.scirus.com/ ) or Google Scolar (http://scholar.google.com/) and using the search words ‘Scandianvian party system’ or 'Finnish party system’ etc.
One article dealing with the Finnish political system you’ll find at the address
http://www.soc.utu.fi/en/studying/programmes/TheFinnishPoliticalSystem…
There are even more results for this search. You can try it.
Helpful…
You'll find the finnisch alphabet for english speakers at the Wikipedia site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_alphabet .
Online introductions to Finnish language are given for example in the following addresses:
http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/FinnishForForeigners/
http://venla.org/
Free language software downloads are found in the address http://www.byki.com/fls/FLS.html
English to Finnish/Finnish to English online dictionaries are available in the following addresses:
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/fin.html
http://www3.fincd.com/
Many HelMet-libraries have their own music department. You find the list here (sorry, but the information is only in Finnish) http://www.lib.hel.fi/fi-FI/musiikkiosastot
Libraries with music department have cd-players for listening music in library. Greatest and most diverse collection of music offers Library 10 http://www.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/kirjasto10
There are four fixed cd-players and also headphones to loan for music listening. Also other HelMet-libraries have smaller cd-collections and fixed or portable cd-players for library patrons. Some libraries have also cd-towers for music listening. Maybe the best way is to contact your library beforehand and ask about possibilities to listen music there.
We can say with all probability that the 25th December is not a real birthday
of Christ. This day was celebrated as a Christian feast first in the middle of
the 4th century. There are many theories about the reasons of the choice of the
25th December since the Bible does not provide any clear information in this
matter.
(a) historical theory of religion
The 25th December has some connection with feasts of other religions. The
Christians borrowed a feast from some neighbouring religion or they deliberately
wanted to supersede such one. In fact, the cult of Sun was in the beginning of
fourth century popular in the Roman empire and it has been suggested that the
25th December was celebrated as a birthday of Sun. In any case the time round…
Ask a Librarian is the joint digital reference service of Finnish libraries. It’s situated in the site Libraries.fi, which is the national library portal for all Finnish libraries (public, special, university libraries). Libraries.fi is produced by the Central Library for Public Libraries in Finland, which is Helsinki City Library and it’s financed by the Ministry of Education. The Ask a Librarian started in the year 1999. Answers are given in three languages: Finnish, Swedish and English. Ask a Librarian has a public archive, where answers are stored and can be used by other information seekers. The archive also exists in three languages, http://www.libraries.fi/ask_librarian/archive.aspx .
The question is sent in via a web form, the…
Hi!
We don't have any access to e-journals about music and musiology.
But we have access to Oxford Music Online, which includes for example Grove Music Online. More information:
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/about
Oxford Music Online isn't e-journal and you can used it only in library.
I found in Wikipedia that Alice in Wonderland has been translated in Russian in the year 1923. I'm sorry but I couldn't find any earlier translation. In Vaasa city library we have got only the book that has been published in the year 2007.
I found the finnish folk song "Taivas on sininen ja valkoinen" in two books (Suuri toivelaulukirja 1 and Kultaiset koululaulut vanhoilta ajoilta). In both books there is only two strophes. So It seems that song consits only those two strophes.
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…
