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Post by Carolyn on Apr 19, 2003 11:56:10 GMT -5
For those of you who are unaware, you can, through your local library, order just about any book that is available in the whole of the Swedish library system for what amounts to a minimal charge for handling. You can also request that a book you might desire be ordered purchased, although that doesn't necessarily mean a Danielle Steele will be bought, unless there's other requests. And if you want to surf the national library system and see what might be available, by author, title, subject, type www.kb.se and check it out. This site is also available in English, if you don't feel up to using it in Swedish either. ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Leslie on May 2, 2003 4:58:55 GMT -5
I just want to add that the Stockholm library has an excellent selection of childrens books in English!!
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Post by Sabeine on May 3, 2003 3:40:51 GMT -5
Leslie, or Carolyn or anyone who has "ordered" a book from a library here,... do you know if they have to be a certain age? Can one order recently published books that may be only up to a year old?
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Post by Carolyn on May 3, 2003 7:24:24 GMT -5
I don't know about age, but I do know I just ordered a copy of "Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden" which is a fairly new publication, and a friend of mine up north asked her library about a copy of the new Jean Auel "Shelters of Stone" shortly after it wa published, and THEY went ahead and ordered a copy in hardcover for her pretty darned quick.
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Post by Aussie on May 3, 2003 8:08:03 GMT -5
For buying books, they can be recently published. The library here ordered in something very recent in December for me. But you could also try the inter-library borrowing system. I have the new Margaret George book on order at the moment. It is only just published, and it is due to hit the library shelf within the Swedish library system on May 30th. Last month, Nynäshamn library ordered me in 2 books from the cataloges of Stockholms Stadblioteket at www.ssb.stockholm.se/ They rang me when they came in and it cost me 5kr each to pick them up. One came from Västerås and the other from Umeå!<br> They are reluctant to order in fiction, but most of what I read is based on historical events, so I argue the point with them, also pointing out that they have very few English books I can read. |
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Post by Carolyn on May 3, 2003 9:17:42 GMT -5
Boy, I sure agree with you about fiction. I often go into the "stacks" in the Örebro library, all those out of date books which normally I LOVE, which are hidden down in the basement. I've found some incredible needlework books down there, but their choice of English novels sure tells me a lot about the people doing the purchasing at the time. Talk about obscure authors and a lack of choice in some of the better English authors. I swear, the complete works of Wilkie Collins must be down in our library cellars, and who reads Wilkie Collins anymore? (for those of you younger people, he wrote in late Victorian times and was probably one of the first suspense writers, but heavy going. His most famous novel was probably "The Lady in White").
But the shelves are full of novels from the 30s to 50s, some of which are very good reads, by the way. Upstairs in the main part of the library, I swear they haven't bought anything new since I went back to the states in October of 2001, and even then, the choice was pretty pathetic.
On the non-fiction side, though, I've really enjoyed what has been available. The Swedish library system buys the best books published, usually in the original language, so if the definitive book on, say, European geology is written in German, the book is in German. They often buy the Swedish translations too.
In the past, I have ordered through the library system incredible books IN ENGLISH on the Danish bog people and on the mummified horse people of the Mongolian steppes. And for 5 SEK a shot, it's worth cruising the lists and seeing what you can find.
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Post by Sabeine on May 3, 2003 9:48:46 GMT -5
Aussie,
When you say buy, you mean that they order it for the library, and then you can borrow it later, right?
You aren't buying the book from the library, or did I read this wrong?
I have a few books that are sort of self-help related that help to deal with grief and such. They aren't popular novels so I wonder if the library here in Sundyberg would order it. Also, how does one ask them? Do they know about this as well?
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Post by Carolyn on May 3, 2003 11:05:29 GMT -5
At our local library, both on their website and down at the main branch, they have a form you can fill out, requesting a new book title. I'm not saying this means they buy them all, but I'm sure they take that in consideration.
And when they buy the book, you then take it on loan from them.
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