Dear Sir
We very much regret that we can't send the copy of the musical work by Erik Fordell because we only have the original one. The Finnish law of copyright forbids us as authorities to make any copy.
We are a public library and we do not have expetise concerning welding. However, below are a couple web-pages which deal with the issue. You should contact some technical school, which teaches welding techniques.
http://www.newagepublishers.com/samplechapter/001469.pdf
http://www.key-to-steel.com/default.aspx?ID=CheckArticle&LN=RU&NM=75
http://www.engineershandbook.com/Tables/welding%20processes.htm
The encyclopedia britannica says that most bears sleep in the winter time a long period. I found a finnish Intersite about bears which describes winter sleep as follows: The winter sleep durates about a half a year, bears enter their winter locations between september-november and awaken between march and may. These are the conditions in Finland and much depends off course in how could/warm the wheather is.
Unfortunately we don’t have specific information about Winter war’s volunteer troops, for example name lists of soldiers. But we recommend to contact Finnish National Archives (www.narc.fi). The straight e-mail address is kansallisarkisto.sornainen [at] narc.fi (Former Military Archives). In these archives they have quite a detailed lists and statistics about Finnish war history and troops. We believe that they can help and give more advice in this matter.
You will find lots of good web pages about the origin of the English language simply by using the search terms "english language history" in any internet search engine. E.g. here is one thorough article on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_language
If you would like to get more personalized answers to your question, I would suggest for you to turn to some "Ask a librarian" service in any English-speaking country. We Finns might not be the best possible specialists of the English language.
In Helsinki there are several libraries that have a special children’s department, for example Pasila, Kallio, Töölö, Rikhardinkatu, Itäkeskus and Vuosaari libraries. Children’s departments have a large collection of fairytales and picture books in several languages as well as some toys and puzzles. Also smaller libraries without children’s department have books for children. More information you can find on Helsinki City Library’s web page www.lib.hel.fi (choose In English to get the English page).
You can borrow books and different items. You can read, do your homework or listen to music or audio books. You can use the computers to surf the net or to play games. There are also board games and toys in some libraries. The library is a very good place to meet your friends, too.
Helsinki City Library Bookster
http://www.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/children/spending_time/
In summer time there is mobile library called "Kesädösä", where you can borrow among others outdoor sports equipment. http://nk.hel.fi/kesastadi/?sivu=kesatp-kesadosa
Book review services:
For excample Tampere City Library
Send your Poem to Library
Send a Book Review to Library
http://www.tampere.fi/kirjasto/kissa/english.htm
Exhibition space or gallery for your poems, drawings...
I'll send your question to mister Vakkari, hope you can reach him even thougt it's summer. If you are interested in any questions and answers in Ask a Librarian, you can read them in our public archive, http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/ask_librarian/archive/ (newest answers http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/ask_librarian/newest/ ). I presume that Prof. Vakkari has studied the finnish archive, and that he can send you the material, but the texts will be in Finnish language. The Finnish archive is here http://www2.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/kysy/arkisto/ , the link to swedish material here, http://www2.biblioteken.fi/sv-FI/fraga_bibliotekarien/arkivet/ .
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
Here are some books about world religions. I hope they will be of use to you.
- World religions : a historical approach / S. A. Nigosian (2008)
- World religions : the illustrated guide / general editor: Michael D. Coogan (2003)
- Britannica encyclopedia of world religions / [consulting editor Wendy Doniger] (2006)
There is also a packege of information on the website of BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/
Here you have a link to a list of all fiction books in French in HelMet libraries around the capital region:
http://luettelo.helmet.fi/search/X?SEARCH=**&searchscope=4&m=1&l=fre&b=…
So, as you see there are quite a few libraries that harbour at least some kind of a collection of books in French.
If you would like to restrict the search to a given library, go to this page: http://luettelo.helmet.fi/search~S9/X . Type two asterisks (**) in the search field. Instead of Entire collection, choose Fiction. For material type, choose book and for language, French. Then choose the library you want and click Go!
There is a list of institutions giving information and library services education at the Kirjastot.fi web site http://www.kirjastot.fi/kirjastoala/opiskelu/
Most of the degree programs take students at the annual application period but some giving information and library services apprenticeship training have continuous application. Apprentice should have or find the apprenticeship-employer by herself. A list of Finnish public libraries and there contact details are at the site http://hakemisto.kirjastot.fi/en/# and other libraries http://www.libraries.fi/en-GB/libraries/ In Joensuu there are, besides the Joensuu regional library , University of Eastern Finland Library http://www.uef.fi/en/kirjasto/etusivu, Medical Library of the North...
In registration alias usually means some kind of nickname or alternative name. It can also mean something else, like in Yahoo email provider you can have an extension of your Yahoo account. Yahoo's alias masks your account's primary ID.
Yahoo! help: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/create-alias-sln3240.html
The newspaper European Voice is not part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries (Helmet) collections. We have in use PressDisplay, which offers over 2,000 newspapers online, unfortunately European Voice is not included in the service.
Here below is the website of The Viking Ship Museum in Norway (Oslo):
http://www.khm.uio.no/english/
There is also a viking ship museum in Danmark (Roskilde):
http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/
You can find books published by this museum here:
http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/about-us/publications/books-publish…
Here is also some books about viking ships:
- The Viking Ship / Gareth Williams
- The Viking Longship / Jørn Olav Løset
- The age of the Vikings / Anders Winroth
Maybe there is something useful for you also in these websites:
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/norse_ships…
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/viking-ships.html
There are some large print editions of books. You can check their availability in Helmet by using search words such as "large print" or isotekst*.
Here are the search results:
http://haku.helmet.fi/iii/encore/search/C__S%28isotekst*%29%20f%3A1__Or…
http://haku.helmet.fi/iii/encore/search/C__S%28%22large%20print%22%29__…
There only seems to be one magazine in large print in Helmet libraries:
http://haku.helmet.fi/iii/encore/search/C__S%28isotekst*%29%20c%3A1__Or…
If you are also looking for materials the contents of which are aimed at elderly readers, there are books like that too. One typical example this kind of books are the handbooks of using computers and the internet, written especially for senior citizens, e.g. the following:
http://...
In Finland stock options are taxed as taxable income. In termines sales you are not allowed to assume the price of the option when you bought it. However, you are allowed to deduct the price at which you bought the option plus your expenses in buying and selling. You will find the English web pages of the Finnish Tax Administration at http://www.vero.fi/english/index.html
I asked the results from the Sports Museum of Finland (Suomen urheilumuseo: https://www.urheilumuseo.fi/Kieliversiot/The-Sports-Museum-of-Finland ). They have the archive of Suomen hiihtoliitto: http://www.hiihtoliitto.fi/en/. Unfortunately they don't have the results of the year 1967. Here are their contact information if you want to ask more: urheilumuseo(at)urheilumuseo.fi
If you have the 4-digit PIN code plus your own library card, you can make a reservation directly via this link http://luettelo.helmet.fi/record=b2360187~S9*fin (there are already two reservations waiting for Munkkiniemi library to get their copy, so anyway you have to wait). If you do not yet have the PIN code, you have to visit some of the HelMet libraries and get one. You can make a reservation in library anytime.
Heikki Poroila
