National Library of Finland: Gaining a perspective on war through digitised warfront newspapers. “Warfront papers were newspapers for soldiers on the front. The National Library has, in cooperation with the library of the National Defence University, digitised a total of 144 warfront papers from 1939–1945 and made them available.”
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National Library of Finland: New resources in the National Library search service
National Library of Finland: New resources in the National Library search service. “As of June, the National Library of Finland search service can help you find manuscript and archival material as well as ephemera. As the library collections contain several kilometres of such resources, their comprehensive cataloguing is expected to take years. The bibliographic information available through the search service will increase gradually as the daily work of describing and cataloguing resources progresses.”
National Library of Finland: Käärijä’s Eurovision journey captured in the Finnish Web Archive
National Library of Finland: Käärijä’s Eurovision journey captured in the Finnish Web Archive . “Käärijä came to international attention when he represented Finland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in second place. The National Library of Finland has now collected online materials on the country’s most talked-about phenomenon of the spring 2023.”
National Library of Finland: The new website of the Jean Sibelius Works project
National Library of Finland: The new website of the Jean Sibelius Works project. “The renewed trilingual website of the complete critical edition of Jean Sibelius’s works (JSW) contains information about this large-scale collaborative project involving the National Library, the Sibelius Society, and the German publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel, its activities and publications.”
National Library of Finland: Dozens of online forums collected for the Finnish Web Archive
National Library of Finland: Dozens of online forums collected for the Finnish Web Archive. “Online forums and message boards have long been significant venues for special-interest discussion and debate. They have also played an important role in the emergence of Finnish online culture. The National Library of Finland has now collected 55 Finnish online forums as a part of national cultural heritage.”
PetaPixel: Helsinki Has a Website of 65,000 Free Photos Anyone Can Use
New-to-me, from PetaPixel: Helsinki Has a Website of 65,000 Free Photos Anyone Can Use. “The collection has been around since 2017 and is operated by Helsinki City Museum, which has free admission and is the world’s only museum focused on Helsinki’s history and heritage. The museum has a vast collection of roughly 1 million photographs, of which a sizable portion has been digitized and put online for the world to view (and more are being added on a regular basis).”