Laina is a Finnish forename for women. Its name day, 8th February, has been in the Finnish Almanac since 1908 and the name has been most popular in the yearly 1900’s. Today it is somewhat a rare alternative for a child’s name. In recent years, only 85 persons have had it. However, for Finnish public... Continue Reading →
We are very happy to announce a new sistership in the Program: Edinburgh City Libraries (Scotland) is now connected with Iisalmi City Library (Finland). They’ve connected via Skype to discuss the activities they’ll be developing in cooperation. With this new sistership, NAPLE Sister Libraries has reached 47 COUPLES OF SISTER LIBRARIES amongst all the participants!... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago we achieved 100 public libraries in the program. to commemorate it, we asked all the libraries in the program to send us a video that'll show their thoughts about the program, their personal experience or a message to encourage others to join in and get involved. We recieved these 6... Continue Reading →
It is quite common for cities in Finland to have a culture festival event to mark the end of the summer season. The most famous is “Taiteiden yö” in Helsinki but the city of Iisalmi also has a similar event called “Ihmeiden ilta” (the Evening of Wonders), arranged annually in the last Saturday of August.... Continue Reading →
Iisalmi City Library arranged the second annual ”Säisän säikeet” literary event in the 16th of December 2017. The event is named after author Eino Säisä (1935–1988) who is one of the most respected modern literary figures coming from the Iisalmi area. His main work includes the six volume “Kukkivat roudan maat” (rough translation: The Blooming... Continue Reading →
Iisalmi City Library has been implementing a project with local youth services. The aims of this project are developing the co-operation between the library and youth services, survey what kind of activities young people wish from the library and involve young people to take part in the activities arranged by parties of the project. The... Continue Reading →
Our colleague Aleksandra Zawalska-Hawel, dierctor of the Municipal Public Library in Piekary Slaskie in Poland, has sent us this great news, concerning a cooperation project involving some of their NAPLE Sister Libraries and other partners too. The author and coordinator of the project “LIBRARY. I LOVE IT!” is the Municipal Public Library in Piekary Slaskie. The project starts... Continue Reading →
Today we have beautiful new pictures fromthe adults and children department of Iisalmi City Library in Finland!
Today we are presenting a new Section: Interviews with Sister Libraries. We will be regularly interviewing the librarians that make possible that this programme is working, the professionals responsible for the programme in our sister libraries. We will learn more about their libraries, their cooperation projects, what got them into joining NAPLE Sister Libraries and... Continue Reading →
A little while ago we wrote on the Project Sister Libraries in Action for Youth of the Municipal Public Library of Piekary Slaskie (Poland). Today we we give you more information facilitated by its director, Aleksandra Zawalska-Hawel. Out of this visit they got their two most recent sister libraries! For four days, from 11 to 14 September... Continue Reading →
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