Библиотека как социальный институт сохранения и устойчивого развития культур и культурного самовыражения коренных народов Севера= Library as a social institution for conservation and sustainable development of cultures and cultural expressions of the North indigenous peoples : международная научно-практическая конференция, 20-23 ноября 2012 г. : сборник материалов / сост.: Михайлова Е. Р., Иванова С. В.

Rovaniemi, and it serves library users in all of Finland. Its work for the enhancement of the Sami language and culture covers the whole country. The libraries of Finland participate in a range of networks. All the public libraries of the Finnish Sami Area and the Special Library in Rovaniemi operate within the same library system as concerns the transportation system. Online services are provided both in Finnish and North Sami. With each other and together with local Sami and the Sami Parliament, libraries run joint service projects aiming at promoting the Sami language and culture. The most important one of the new joint library projects is the project Johtti girjeradju/Jutaava kirjasto (Crossing Library), which creates and realises Sami events and events in the Sami language in the whole area of Sapmi, the Land of the Sami. Its purpose is also to reflect on the concept and methods of Sami library work. At present, the most wide-ranging cooperation project in the administrative fields of culture and education is the project Sapmi miehta ("Across Sapmi"), a virtual project on the development and the learning environment of the Sami language and culture. It is run by the Sami Education Institute. The project is interactive and based on developing remote access and web contents. The Sami Special Library transmits Sami learning sessions to the whole province, is engaged in the Sami reading group Lohkanvaibmilat and the social media, edits different types of reading and selected lists of Sami material, and spreads information on the project Sapmi miehta to libraries elsewhere in Finland. In Finland, well over half of the Sami live outside the Sami Area. In the Sami Area, there are mobile libraries in all the municipalities: Muonio, Enontekio, Inari, Sodankyla and Utsjoki. The mobile libraries provide library services to individuals in their immediate neighbourhoods in this region where distances are long. 105