Publications

The Library of Parliament and its staff are active in publishing articles and other publications, and presenting lectures. The library has a publication series. Some publications are in electronic form.

On this web page there is a list of articles, presentations, speeches and other publications of the library published in English.

Karhula, Päivikki. A cattle hotshot – citizens on a shadow of the ubiquitous society. Published in Finnish: Paratiisi vai panoptikon – näkökulmia ubiikkiyhteiskuntaan. Eduskunnan kirjaston julkaisusarja 10. Päivikki Karhula (ed.). 2008. 192 p. (PDF-format)
Other articles of Paratiisi vai panoptikon in English

Karhula, Päivikki, New semantic order is well on the way. Signum 2008: 5

Tuominen, Kimmo. How Social is Social Media? Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly 41 (2008): 2, p. 12-13 (Title in printed format: "Community – – Too (Little) Community?")

Turja, Timo. Lobbying libraries for the Finnish Parliament. Advocacy and Marketing for Libraries, Helsinki 17. - 18.4.2008

Koski, Sari, A day in the life. Newsletter of the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians. 2007:3, p. 14–15.

New titles in SELMA database

Tuominen, Kimmo, Information Literacy 2.0, Keynote address at Making a difference: moving towards Library 2.0, Helsinki 7.5.2007

Tuominen, K. & Turja, T. (2007). Use of Social Scientific Information in Parliamentary Discussion. Published in: Garten, E.D., Williams D.E., Nyce, J.M. & Talja, S. (eds.), Advances in Library Administration and Organization, vol. 25, p. 133–154. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Karhula, Päivikki, Conspectus is a cool tool. Signum 2006 :3, p. 3–4.

Karhula, Päivikki, A united voice: library associations' challenge for the future in Finland. Library Management 2006: 1–2, p. 101–107.

Tuominen, Kimmo, Whose material do you find on the Internet? Whose Internet? Seminar of the Finnish Library Association. Helsinki, 18.5.2006.

Tuominen, Kimmo, The Curses of Information Work and the Blessedness of Libraries. The National Library of Finland Bulletin 2006, p. 13–14.

Talja, Sanna, Tuominen, Kimmo & Savolainen, Reijo, "Isms" in information science: constructivism, collectivism and constructionism. Journal of documentation vol. 61 (2005): 1, p. 79–101.

Tuominen, Kimmo, Savolainen, Reijo & Talja, Sanna, Information literacy as a sociotechnical practice. The Library Quarterly vol. 75 (2005): 3, p. 329–345.

Tuominen, Kimmo, Talja, Sanna & Savolainen, Reijo, The social constructionist viewpoint on information practices. In Fisher, K., Erdelez, S. &. McKechnie, L.(eds.), Theories of information behavior: a researcher's guide. Medford, NJ: Information Today 2005, p. 328–333.

Kangas, Sinikka, Developments in Retrospective Conversion 1989–2000–2004, Library of Parliament, Finland : brief overview. Helsinki, 2004.
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Tuominen, Kimmo, "Whoever increases his knowledge merely increases his heartache" – moral tensions in heart surgery patients' and their spouses' talk about information seeking. Information research 10(2004): 1, paper 202.

Karhula, Päivikki. The Library of Parliament's strategy for network services 2003–2004. Abstract in: Eduskunnan kirjaston verkkopalvelustrategia 2003–2004. ISBN: 951-53-2579-X.

Laaksovirta, Tuula H., Democracy and libraries. Expanding Literacy : a Challenge for Libraries 7.–9.9.2003, Helsinki.

Laaksovirta, Tuula H. Leader, Rapporteur Anita Dudina. Workshop: Change management: users, environment and librarians. Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments / Management Workshop at the Humboldt University 7.8.2003.

Karhula, Päivikki & Grönlund, Paula, E-Government services in the Parliament of Finland. Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on eGovernment 2002. (The 2nd European Conference on eGovernment, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK, 1–2 Oct. 2002). MCIL, 2002.

Rantanen, Terhi & Laaksovirta, Tuula H. ... [et al.], Evaluation of media and communication studies in higher education in Finland. Helsinki, 2002. 130 s. (Publications of the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council, 7:2002). ISBN 951-37-3726-8.

Committee of the Nordic Parliamentary Librarians. The parliamentary libraries of the Nordic countries and the other information and documentation services in the Nordic parliaments : Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. 2000. (PDF-format)

Suchoples Jaroslaw, ed., Finland in the international affairs of the 20th century : a selected bibliography consisting of articles, papers and books written in foreign languages. 2000. (PDF-format)