About Library Channel
General info
Library Channel (Kirjastokaista) is a part of Libraries.fi (Kirjastot.fi), which is a gateway to all library services in Finland. In Library Channel you will find videos about books, authors and libraries as well as its services. Library Channel participates in advancing reading, promoting and marketing the library’s services and current themes with its videos. In addition, Library Channel acts as an educational channel, e.g. for library professionals and students.
You can share and embed our videos to different sites or blogs and show them in an event or as a part of a lesson in Finland or abroad. The videos don’t have a limited release time, you are able to watch and listen to them without any limitations. Library Channel produces all its programs under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA).
Technical info
Librarychannel.fi-site has been created using WordPress. Library Channel uses Vimeo to upload its videos and SoundCloud to upload its audio, from where they’re imported to the librarychannel.fi-site. So you can also watch Library Channel’s videos on Vimeo and listen to audio on SoundCloud. Library Channel also has a YouTube channel where you’ll find a small, selected collection of its videos.
Library Channel live-streams events as multi-camera productions and uses Vimeo as its broadcasting platform. You can follow the broadcasts on the Library Channel Live page. All the videos are available in SD, HD and mobile formats and can be viewed on all modern devices and browsers.
Crew
Library Channel crew
Riitta Taarasti: Producer, Editor
Mikko Helander: Video Production
Joonas Nevalainen: Video Production
Contact Information
Library Channel’s extended crew
Anna-Maria Malm, Biblioteken.fi: Translator and Assistant Editor for productions in Swedish
Harri Oksanen, Libraries.fi: Graphic Designer
Background
Everything started with the Kirjastokanava project, which began together with Kuntakanava (currently Kunta.TV) on 1 October 2009. The first user interface was published on 12 November 2009, and the first videos were mainly interviews of authors and presentations of newly published books. Interviews were made by editors Seppo Toivonen, Karo Hämäläinen and Riitta Taarasti.
Due to the release of Library Channel, the audio and video productions of different libraries have been centralized to a single website, where all programs are easily found, utilized and shared. Librarychannel.fi’s features are constantly being developed alongside its video production.
Library Channel is produced with funds granted to Libraries.fi by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Accessibility Statement
Welcome to the accessibility statement of the National Development Services of Helsinki City Library. This website is subject to the Act on the Provision of Digital Services, which requires that all public sector online services in Finland are accessible.
This accessibility statement applies to the website kirjastokaista.fi. It was drawn up on 23 April 2020 and updated on 2 January 2025. The accessibility of this digital service has been assessed by Annanpura Oy (16 April 2019).
Accessibility status of the digital service
Meets critical A & AA requirements.
Inaccessible content in the digital service (according to WCAG criteria)
The website does not yet fully meet the requirements
Understandable: Insufficient language settings in video and audio players
Inaccessible content and its shortcomings:
The site contains embedded video and audio files. The third-party players used to play them are not fully accessible in all respects, for example some button alt-texts may be in English only. In the audio player, the track name inherits the player’s lang=en attribute, causing the track name to be pronounced in English regardless of its actual language.
Accessibility requirements not met:
3.1.2 Language of Parts
Not covered by legislation
Video or audio recordings published before 23 September 2020:
Videos released before 23 September 2020 are mostly without subtitles.
Did you notice any accessibility deficiency in our digital service? Please let us know and we will do our best to rectify it
You can leave accessibility feedback via Libraries.fi’s shared feedback form, located outside this website: please use this online form for accessibility feedback.
You can also send your feedback by e-mail to toimitus@kirjastot.fi.
Supervisory authority
If you notice accessibility issues on the website, first give feedback to the website administrator. Receiving a response may take 14 days. If you are not satisfied with the response, or you receive no response within two weeks, you can provide feedback to the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom’s Digital Accessibility Supervision Unit. Traficom’s accessibility requirements website (saavutettavuusvaatimukset.fi) explains how you can lodge a complaint and how the matter will be processed.
Contact information of the supervisory authority:
Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom
Digital Accessibility Supervision
http://www.saavutettavuusvaatimukset.fi
saavutettavuus@traficom.fi
Telephone +358 29 534 5000 (exchange)
