CULTURE-FINLAND:  'Living Books' Help Fight Prejudice
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HELSINKI, Jun 8 (IPS) - Books cannot talk back to a reader and answer all  of their questions. So if one is seeking concrete information on,  say, a gay person, the library is perhaps the wrong place to  visit.
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The Finnish media has transfixed the nation with the story of a mother who has defied the Finnish Supreme Court for over a month by refusing to comply with an order to return her children to their American ...
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The intense bibliographic appeal of âPeople of the Bookâ turns out to be a mixed blessing.
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TORONTO - Signs of national pride were laid out carefully across Finland&#39;s dressing room yesterday. A pair of Finnish flags hung from the ceiling and two more were fastened to the walls.
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Books have been a bit of the orphan in the digital world. Music has the iPod. Video has YouTube. Books have, well, Amazon.com, where you can buy them printed on paper.
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A 1970s law in Finland that restricted smoking in public places and banned tobacco advertising appears to have helped curb the country's smoking habit and reduce the incidence of disease, new research reports.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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The British Library and the National Library of New Zealand develop new way to archive digital material.
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NOT JUST IMMIGRATION: The birthrates in many Muslims communities in Europe are among the highest, particularly in Nordic nations.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.âs more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about Americaâs past.
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In once uniform Sweden, a book being hailed as the ultimate generational novel serves as a reminder that you no longer need to be a blond, blue-eyed, beer-guzzling giant, or even speak the language correctly, to be considered truly Swedish.
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By Sherman, Will  THIS ARTICLE, REPRINTED FROM DEGREE TUTOR, MAY SEEM TO FOCUS ON PUBLIC LIBRARIES-BUT THERE IS WISDOM HERE FOR ALL INFO PROS. Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries.
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School pupils reveal how visits from refugees and asylum seekers taught them lessons about prejudice.
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David Bollier's Brand Name Bullies seeks to expose the 'quest to own and control our culture.' But the book's real value is in its numerous case studies of copyright and trademark battles. By Amit Asaravala.
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.  - When you walk through the doors of Borders' new concept store, the place feels familiar. As with any big-box bookstore, you'll find a coffee shop over here and some strategically placed leather chairs over there. And, of course, lots of books. But follow the table of books snaking off to the right, and you'll come face-to-face with Borders' newest retail strategy: a digital center where you can download music or books, burn CDs, research family histories, print pictures and order leather-bound books crammed with family photos - with help from clerks who know how to do those sorts of things and won't embarrass you if you don't.
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Sergei Shalivsky staffs one of the book tables in the heart of Kiev, but with one difference: Nearly all of the books on Shalivsky s table are dedicated to Ukrainian nationalism and anti-Semitism. In a recent ...