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Christmas at the library

Libraries will also spread the Christmas spirit during the season of joy. Many libraries have started to provide their own symbolic Advent calendars. For example, the Nurmijärvi library calendar provides musical or dance performances during every day in December. The Hyvinkää Laurea library advent calendar presents the library offering through book recommendations. The Entresse Multicultural Library in Espoo hosts the Freedom of Speech calendar on a giant screen, opening one book daily that was banned at one point in time in some country. The Sello library in Leppävaara, Espoo, uses a video advent calendar to present stories of adventuring forest animals.

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Books become hybrids

Books become hybrids

Since last spring, the Helsinki City Library has been lending e-book readers. The e-readers have been quite popular, despite the fact that the electronic content only includes old material free of copyrights. However, if the Finnish society is able to create a set of common rules that are accepted by publishers, authors and libraries, the Central Library could be able to lend both printed and electronic material.

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