What´s going on

Kulttuurikeskus Ninho contributes to the Spanish language collection in the public libraries in Finland and motivates the community and new readers.

Multilingual Library in Pasila, Helsinki, is awarded the Rooster Award for its literacy promotion work. The recognition will be awarded by the Finnish Reading Association, FinRA, on International Literacy Day, 8 September, and presented at Pasila Library on Friday, 9 September.

Helmet libraries will start charging customers a fee of €1 for reservations that have not been picked up or cancelled by the last pick-up date. Reserving materials will continue to be free of charge.
The uncollected reservation fee will be introduced 1 June 2021.

Multilingual Library´s new video is available in six languages: Finnish, Swedish, English, Arabic, Somali and Persian/Farsi. The introductory video is spoken and subtitled in these languages.

Multilingual Library brochure is available electronically and in print in 22 languages.

Quite a few customers and libraries have asked us for tip lists of literature in rare languages for different customer groups. Here is the first one.

Unnikrishnan Kurup (right) and Sanitha Manoj (left) visited the Multilingual Library to chat about the Malayalam literature we acquired for the Malayalam community in Finland.

Have you already found the Multilingual Library´s FaceBook -pages? Go and like our pages, add comments and share the link.

Information about Helmet Library in Somali.

Information about Helmet Library in Arabic.

Information about Helmet Library in Persian.

In this column Mohamed Abdulkareem writes about his thoughts as a refugee in Finland.