Monthly Archives: August 2012

Live-stream recording of IFLA 2012 Opening session on 12th of August. Read more: IFLA conference 2012 in Helsinki, Finland

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 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 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 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: […]

New website on Finnish libraries published

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]