Monthly Archives: August 2012
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Meet Finnish Authors in IFLA 2012, Helsinki 15.8.2012: Meet Seita Parkkola, her intense and ambitious prose takes young readers into the vivid battle between good and evil. Read more: FILI, Finnish […]
Meet Finnish Authors in IFLA 2012, Helsinki 14.8.2012: Meet Matti Rönkä, an author and TV-journalist, whose interesting and topical crime novels are in a league of their own.
Meet Finnish Authors in IFLA 2012, Helsinki 13.8.2012: Meet Monika Fagerholm, award winning Finnish-Swedish author, whose works capture and present moments, moods and mysteries. Read more: FILI, Finnish Litterature Exchange Author: […]
Meet Finnish Authors in IFLA 2012, Helsinki 14.8.2012: Meet Leena Lehtolainen, the bestselling female crime author in Finland. Crime respects no gender roles. Read more: FILI, Finnish Litterature Exchange Author: Leena […]
Meet Finnish Authors in IFLA 2012, Helsinki 15.8.2012: Meet Johanna Sinisalo, award winning science fiction and fantasy writer – breaker of genre barriers. Read more: FILI, Finnish Litterature Exchange Author: Johanna […]
Meet Finnish Authors in IFLA 2012, Helsinki 13.8.2012: Meet Tove Appelgren, a Finnish-Swedish author and theater director whose children’s books depict ordinary family life with a humorous twist. Read more: […]
The Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group’s mission is the promotion, development and support of library and information services for the benefit of women, and society as a whole. […]
: English Live-stream recording of IFLA 2012 session on 16th of August 2012. Strong libraries = strong societies: democratizing access to knowledge through libraries President-Elect’s Planning Session Opening Buhle Mbambo-Thata IFLA GB […]
: English Live-stream recording of IFLA 2012 session on 15th of August 2012. We excuse the changing sound levels in the first minutes of the broadcast. Sound will stabilize in about 4 […]
: English Live-stream recording of IFLA 2012 session on 15th of August 2012. SESSION I 13:00 – This is how you are being controlled today! Chair: Kai Ekholm Guests: Loida Garcia Febo, […]
: English Rolf Hapel, director of citizens’ services and libraries in Aarhus, tells about Danish Digital Library powered by TING, about Open Source and joined efforts in public libraries. The vision of […]
Christine Mackenzie, member of the IFLA Trend report steering committee, tells about Trend report. The report shall be launched in 2013. It shall provide a base for the library sector […]
: English Live-stream recording of IFLA 2012 session: Towards knotworking: Designing a new concept of work in an academic library 14 August 2012 8:30 – 9:30. Yrjö Engeström Professor, Director of the […]
: English Live-stream recording of IFLA 2012 session on 14th of August 2012. Libraries today and tomorrow: a force for change in our transforming societies? President’s Theme Session 14 August 2012 09:30 […]
: English Live-stream recording of IFLA 2012 session on 13th of August 2012. Welcome to Finland and the IFLA WLIC 2012 Helsinki MAIJA BERNDTSON Chair of the 2012 Finnish National Committee Highlights […]
An alternative approach for the presentation of projects or new work is available to IFLA conference participants In Helsinki. An area on the conference premises has been designated for the […]
: English Live-stream recording of IFLA 2012 session on 12th of August. Introduction and welcome KAI EKHOLM Chair of FAIFE The Internet is dead! SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN Department of Media Studies, University of […]
: English Live-stream recording of IFLA 2012 Opening session on 12th of August. Read more: IFLA conference 2012 in Helsinki, Finland
: English Finnish libraries will be introducing themselves at the conference – not just in the lecture halls in IFLA conference 2012 in Helsinki. The route from the convention centre entrance to […]
Börje the Reading Assistance Dog, Hunt the Mole game, open data applications and a mobile library shared and operated across country borders in Lapland are some examples of the topics […]
: Swedish / Subtitle cc: English In the community of Larsmo library statistics have been on the rise for a long time. No wonder, because even the fish read. Find out what lies behind this amazing […]
Cycling for libraries is a politically and economically independent international unconference for librarian and librarylovers, and a bicycle tour. Cycling for libraries supports grassroots networking, and internationalism, physical and mental […]
: Swedish / Subtitle cc: English In Jakobstad the city library organizes co-operation between the school and the library. This way, the library can have an impact outside its walls as well. Monica Borg-Sunabacka, barn- och […]
: Finnish / Subtitle cc: English The video tells about a bookmobile that drives around not only in Lapland but also in Norway and Sweden. The video includes interviews with the bookmobile driver and customers. The […]
: English Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.®) is a fun, effective and inexpensive way to improve children’s reading skills through the assistance of registered therapy animal teams as literacy mentors. Animals can be […]
: Finnish / Subtitle cc: English In this video you’ll see examples of different kinds of services libraries provide outside of libraries. The video also focuses on the importance of collaboration. Kirjasto ei suinkaan toimi pelkästään […]
: Finnish / Subtitle cc: English In the video there are many people from different age groups and different occupations who tell about their favourite genres in literature and their favourite books. They also tell us why reading […]
: Swedish / Subtitle cc: English Goodnight stories from inmates dads is a collaboration between Vaasa City Library and Vaasa Prison helping imprisoned parents to keep in touch with their children at home through storytelling. A […]
: Swedish / Subtitle cc: English Tritonia library serves research, education and studies at the University of Vaasa, Vamk University of Applied Sciences, Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa and Jakobstad and Novia University of Applied Sciences […]
Arbis, the Swedish Adult Education Centre of Helsinki, is one of the largest municipally owned adult education centres in Finland. They have their own little library which has it’s own […]