Show some love for your library and help us brighten the Sulo and Aileen Maki Library’s spaces with color. The staff at the Maki Library welcomes you to participate in their “Love Your Library” drawing.
Come down to the Maki Library between now and Tuesday, February 14 to relax and enjoy some coloring, collaboratively and/or individually.
Copies of the small “Love Your Library” poster, used for the drawing, are available at the Circulation Desk in the Maki Library. The large “Love Your Library” collaborative [...]
The Maki Library will be open limited hours during the week of Thanksgiving. Below the hours are listed, and you can also find them anytime by visiting finlandia.edu/library.
2016 Thanksgiving Week Library Hours
Monday & Tuesday – 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Wednesday – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday & Friday – Closed
Saturday – 1 to 5 p.m.
Sunday – 3 to 11 p.m.
Finlandia employees, students and community members are invited to attend the Publishing Rocks! Reception to celebrate faculty and Dr. Ralph Pifer on Wednesday, October 19 at 6 p.m. at Maki Library.
The event will celebrate 120 years of Finlandia University faculty publications and 14 years of donations from Dr. Pifer.
Highlights of the event will include introduction of new publications from currenty faculty, as well as a new collection of geological and fossil specimens and archaeological artifacts from Dr. Pifer.
The library will be open the weekend before Labor day, with Sunday hours being 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tutors will be available in the library from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Regan Antila will be tutoring on Tuesdays for English and psychology.
Up-and-coming poet Danez Smith will be the featured artist for the 2016-17 Finlandia University Campus Read.
“Smith is one of the most visionary poets in America, and one of those most on fire for social justice. It is so exciting to have them perform on our campus,” said Dr. Carolyn Dekker, assistant professor of English at Finlandia. “My students have been reading, watching and listening to Danez’s poetry for a year now, and this visit will bring that important work [...]
The colleges on this list were chosen for reasons including their extraordinary libraries or other resources for book lovers, their unique dedication to the “great books,” or because they are home to a highly sought-after English and literature department.
According to About Great Books, book lovers will find Finlandia’s English department a [...]
“This website is a vital investment in the future of Finlandia University,” Director of Marketing and Communications Michael H. Babcock said. “I am proud of our entire campus community for coming together to make this possible.”
This project is the culmination of more than two years of a visual rebranding effort for [...]
Public Catalogs and Databases
Exploring the Deep Web
Internet Scout: “Since 1994, the Internet Scout Research Group (Scout) has focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata.” From University of Wisconsin-Madison.
OAIster, Online Archives Iniative: “OAIster began at the University of Michigan in 2002 funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and with the purpose of establishing a retrieval service for publicly available digital [...]
Drop box is located outside of the back door of the library; from Finn St, through the library staff parking lot.
MeL interlibrary loan will no longer be available after May 1st. Please return all MeL ILL items before May 25th. OCLC interlibrary loan services are available during the summer; please send ILL directly to maki.library@finlandia.edu or use the Journal article request form or Book request form.
NEED [...]
The Sulo & Aileen Maki Library has released its New Book List for December 2014 / January 2015. The list is available in the library’s newsletter (link below), and includes more than three dozen new books and resources available at the library.
New books include Deep Space: Beyond the Solar System to the Edge of the Universe and the Beginning of Time by Govert Schilling, Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings by Gary L. Wenk, Digital Renaissance: Classic Painting Techniques in [...]
