Fredrika Libraries
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About us
Fredrika is a union catalogue for twelve municipal libraries in Vaasa coastal region in Finland.
The municipalities are bilingual (Swedish/Finnish). The book collections reflect the linguistic composition of the municipalities. Altogether there are over 1 million books in the Fredrika libraries. The union catalogue is updated with records once a week while the borrowing status of the books is continually updated.
Fredrika functions as a network, consisting of equal member libraries with no central library.
Number of member libraries with branch libraries and mobile libraries: 51
Number of staff in the libraries: 87
Chair person of the Fredrika board in 2009: Solveig Lund, Pedersöre
e-mail: solveig.lund@pedersore.fi
The Database is located at a software company (Abilita) in Jakobstad.
Specialities in Fredrika in general
- 1st free public library Internet www-catalogue in Finland
- Books published in Swedish and Finnish in Finland
- Books published in Sweden
- Books about Finland and Scandinavia
- Networking & co-operation between libraries
The municipal libraries in the union catalogue are:
- Jakobstad with 19,550 inhabitants
- Korsholm 17,640 inhabitants
- Korsnäs 2,200 inhabitants
- Kristinestad 7,500 inhabitants
- Kronoby 6,700 inhabitants
- Larsmo 4,450 inhabitants
- Malax 5,500 inhabitants
- Nykarleby 7,400 inhabitants
- Närpes 9,430 inhabitants
- Oravais 2,150 inhabitants
- Pedersöre 10,600 inhabitants
- Vörå-Maxmo 4,500 inhabitants
Together these municipalities have about 100,000 inhabitants, of whom 78 % are Swedish speakers and a further 21% Finnish speakers. Swedish is a minority language in Finland, spoken by about 300,000 of the country's 5 Million inhabitants. Finland is officially a bilingual country.
Interlibrary Loans from libraries within Fredrika must be requested directly from a member library, using e-mail. Loans are only made to other libraries - not directly to private users.
