Director's preface Kai Ekholm EDITORIAL Anita Lehikoinen Higher education institutions´ libraries in flux The Finnish educational and research sector is currently experiencing one of its most dramatic transformations in years, even decades. read more » IN BRIEF Finland´s cultural portal opens its doors Reenpää collection and room Facts and statistics International cooperation The National Library of Finland Bulletin 2008 The National Library of Finland Jarmo Saarti The structural development of Finland´s higher education institution libraries as a part of the universities´ renewal Finnish tertiary education appears to be nearing one of its most significant turning points since the construction of the widespread university network that began in the 1960s, as well as the subsequent creation of the polytechnics that took place in the 1990. read more » Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen National Library IT architecture for libraries - challenges for the future read more » Esa-Pekka Keskitalo Representative and diversified The archiving of Internet materials at the National Library of Finland read more » Tiina Ison National Library of Finland in Mass Digitisation Mode Ready or Not: Automatic Book Scanner Flying in through the Window Panu Rajala The flag, goblet and the cruel gun How Waltari gathered the materials for his eastern novels Esa-Pekka Keskitalo The dark Middle Ages is ending HIGHLIGHTS Archiving of cultural material expanding Digitization´s quiet revolution The Literature Bank MEMORNET network Open-access online repository ONIX Center Classical philology Sibelius manuscript to the National Library of Finland Badge of honor for Hannu Niemi Visits EXHIBITIONS Inkeri Pitkäranta Books as a Passion; book collectors from the 1600s to the present day Brother Giovanni Hillari Johannes Viherjuuri (1889-1949) Pioneer of Finnish satire magazines, comic books and magazines´ leisure pages. Not for the Revenue Men! From Moonshine to Koskenkorva.

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