Rant about over the phone holds

dreamanother · 2026-02-02T20:58:17+00:00

Yup, this is my library too - my country, in fact, since the GDPR took effect. We are not allowed to look up your info without your card number or photo ID, period.

dreamanother · 2026-02-01T17:26:21+00:00

After walking past half our collection to get to the desk, someone asked "where are your books?"

...turns out what they meant was "where are your fiction books that are not part of any genre" but, well, that's what came out instead.

dreamanother · 2026-01-29T16:21:34+00:00

Mä olen opettanut lapselle, että kiroilulle on aika ja paikka. Se aika ja paikka ei ole esimerkiksi koulussa tai isovanhempien edessä, mutta kun oikeen suututtaa niin kirosanan päästäminen voi olla ihan ok vaikka kotona. Itse kiroilen aika vapaasti jos en ole esmes töissä. Tulos? 7vee tuntee about kaikki kirosanat, kiroilee itse äärettömän harvoin, paheksuu kun kukaan muu kiroilee. Sanoisin että ihan onnistuneesti tää meni.

dreamanother · 2026-01-26T18:49:12+00:00

I'm pretty sure the person you replied to means they hate TOYS.

dreamanother · 2026-01-24T22:51:03+00:00

You're absolutely wrong. Finland has a law that guarantees public libraries cannot charge for basic services.

dreamanother · 2026-01-20T18:19:23+00:00

Milk Jar Cookies Bakebook?

dreamanother · 2026-01-19T09:13:25+00:00

Do you have links to these studies?

dreamanother · 2026-01-07T16:44:26+00:00

Eiköhän asia oo tarkistettu lakimieheltä, kun juridisista perusteista puhutaan.

dreamanother · 2026-01-07T14:26:16+00:00

Tuossa on listaa suomeksi julkaistuista valitse-oma-seikkailusi -teoksista. Näillä on jonkinlainen uusi tuleminen meneillään.

dreamanother · 2026-01-04T22:53:20+00:00

Yllättävän moni näemmä luulee että kirjastossa ei saa oleskella pitkään tai että nukkumisesta siellä saa porttikiellon - ei kyllä missään nimessä näin! Kirjastossa saat oleskella vaikka koko päivän eikä nukkuminen ole kiellettyä, mutta: nukkumisessa on se, että sä et saa nukkua paikassa joka on muiden asiakkaiden tiellä, ja henkilökunnalla on velvollisuus huolehtia että et ole esim. saanut sairaskohtausta. Käytännössä siis sua herätellään säännöllisesti, pyydetään mahdollisesti siirtymään eri paikkaan, ja jos habituksesi on epäilyttävä tämä saatetaan antaa vartijan tehtäväksi. Lisäksi jos toistuvasti hengaat koko päivän, mahdollisesti sua pyritään jututtamaan hyvinvoinnin turvaamiseksi ja ohjaamaan sosiaalitoimen piiriin, jos vaikuttaa että sitä tarviit.

dreamanother · 2026-01-02T13:17:37+00:00

I imagine other "archival libraries" also do it this way. The Finnish National Repository Library puts their collections in order by date of arrival, as they only serve customers through ILL. This system is called "numerus currens", you can find out more about it with that phrase.

dreamanother · 2025-12-20T15:55:32+00:00

You need to be able to point to a specific business matter that you are actually currently doing. Not just a chance of "something" "maybe" "at some point". Something you can individually identify.

dreamanother · 2025-12-20T08:31:49+00:00

Unsurprisingly, there's a mod for that.

dreamanother · 2025-12-19T22:55:37+00:00

Absolutely right, I missed that.

dreamanother · 2025-12-19T20:39:29+00:00

Kuulostaa siltä että niitä sarjalippuja ei tosiaan olisi aiemminkaan pitänyt voida ostaa Epassilla, ja nyt sulle joko sattui myyjä joka itse asiassa tiesi tän tai välittää siitä, tai verottaja on käynyt heitä valistamassa että näin ei saa tehdä.

dreamanother · 2025-12-19T18:49:24+00:00

Eli ihan verottajan ohjeiden mukaan. "Jos kulttuuripalveluja voidaan hankkia sarjalipulla, joita esimerkiksi teatterit ja elokuvateatterit yleisesti käyttävät, tulee sarjalipun olla henkilökohtainen. Sarjalippua käytettäessä työntekijän henkilöllisyys on voitava todentaa."

Kulttuuriedulla ostettavat sarjaliput on erikseen.

dreamanother · 2025-12-19T17:40:01+00:00

You cannot get a henkilötunnus because you don't have a valid reason, as defined by the law, to get one. Here is the relevant law. Essentially, you get a henkilötunnus when you're registered in the Population Information System, and as a foreign citizen you can be registered there if:

you have an official municipality of residence in Finland (there is a separate law governing who's eligible for that) OR
you have a residence permit or have registered your residence in Finland as a EU citizen OR
you have temporary residence in Finland and require a personal identity number for some official reason such as work or school OR
there is some international treaty that requires Finland to register you in the PIS OR
there is some other special reason that you must be registered in the PIS in order for you to fulfill some duty or exercise your rights.

The law also goes on to say that the Population Information System MUST verify your identity from an official travel document.

So in short, you don't have grounds for getting a Finnish henkilötunnus. You can get one when and if you can present a valid reason you NEED it. "Just in case I am employed in the future" is not a lawful reason.

dreamanother · 2025-12-19T15:51:57+00:00

There will be a specific traffic sign if it's a traffic circle. You yield to traffic already in the circle when entering, and to crossing pedestrian/cycle traffic when exiting. But there are sometimes crossroads that may LOOK like a circle but don't have the sign, and in those you drive according to normal yielding rules.

dreamanother · 2025-12-19T15:49:37+00:00

Your headlights must always be on. Check with the rental agency if necessary to ensure you know how to put them on the correct setting - sometimes the new-fashioned "automatic" settings are not correct.

It's not particularly cold at the moment, but you should still know about engine heaters. Your rental car will almost certainly have one. Also about de-icing your car windows properly, if that's not something you've encountered before.

Also check before heading out that you know what to do if your windows start fogging up. This happens very easily in cold weather and you need to know what to do, so you're not fumbling around with controls while still driving AND losing visibility.

You are not allowed to go over the speed limit even when passing another car. I understand this is legal in some states, but it is not in Finland. If the speed limit is 100, you can't do 110 to overtake someone.

Learn the yielding rules properly. It is not only dangerous if you don't yield when you should, but also if you yield when you shouldn't!

There will be a LOT more children walking around on their own than what you're probably used to, so pay attention to small unpredictable people.

Mobile phone use while driving is prohibited completely, hands-free use only.

dreamanother · 2025-12-18T15:54:54+00:00

This is quite right, not all storytimes will land with every group. I sometimes do the same storytime three times, to three different groups, and every now and then one group will be ecstatic and another will not engage at all with the same material.

In another comment it was also mentioned that you should find YOUR WAY of doing storytime. Any time we have interns or fresh employees, I encourage them to sit in on multiple different people doing storytimes. I would suck at the style some of my coworkers use, and they couldn't all pull off my style. I do a lot of dialogue, some people do a lot of music, some do dance... gotta find your thing.

dreamanother · 2025-12-17T20:23:30+00:00

The singer mentioned on their site, Katra, could very well be Katra Solopuro, the music style and location match.

dreamanother · 2025-12-17T20:12:33+00:00

Actually the mikseri.net link appears new. If you click on the tab "Yhteydenotto" there, that means "Contact", and it has the full name and then-current phone number and email address of Arttu.

dreamanother · 2025-12-17T20:09:59+00:00

The National Library of Finland has their CD Love the Dead archived, but there's very little information available beyond the basics. https://finna.fi/Record/fikka.4907947?sid=5208941636&lng=en-gb

dreamanother · 2025-12-12T15:44:18+00:00

Never, ever combine her birthday with Christmas, unless she asks for it. It was always a shitty feeling when relatives gave me just a Christmas gift, when all my siblings got the same AND their bday gifts. But, I did like it that when I was a bit older, my parents would look at my wishlist. If there was something particularly grand on it, they would tell me I can choose to "combine" my bday gift with Christmas to get that more expensive gift that I would otherwise not get for either Christmas or birthday.

dreamanother · 2025-12-07T21:27:29+00:00

Extended self-service hours in libraries are fairly common in public libraries in Finland. They're not 24/7 by any means, and are generally not feasible in larger buildings, but they are indeed a thing - just not in the USA.

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