The Finnmark Library A Scholarly Library in “Ultima Thule”
Finmarksbibliotheket (“The Finnmark Library”) was established in the municipality of Vadsø in 1892, by central representatives of the town. It was intended to be a systematic collection “of books and manuscripts related to the history, ethnography, language, natural history, and statistics of Finnma...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/28561 2023-05-15T16:13:30+02:00 The Finnmark Library A Scholarly Library in “Ultima Thule” Grenersen, Geir 2022-11-22 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28561 https://doi.org/10.7202/1094126ar eng eng Groupe de recherches et d'études sur le livre au Québec, Canada Mémoires du livre Grenersen. The Finnmark Library A Scholarly Library in “Ultima Thule”. Mémoires du livre. 2022;13(1):1-35 FRIDAID 2125528 doi:10.7202/1094126ar 1920-602X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28561 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7202/1094126ar 2023-02-16T00:04:07Z Finmarksbibliotheket (“The Finnmark Library”) was established in the municipality of Vadsø in 1892, by central representatives of the town. It was intended to be a systematic collection “of books and manuscripts related to the history, ethnography, language, natural history, and statistics of Finnmark County,” especially “to collect everything written about the Sámi.” Its stock increased steadily, and in 1926 the library moved into its own building. In the same period, the assimilationist (Norwegianization) policy against the Sámi and Kven (Finnish population in Norway) was in its most intense phase, and the printing of Sámi and Kven books was restricted. This article explores the paradox that a library representing a pluralistic view of language and culture was established by administrators of an assimilationist policy. What role did the library play in the Norwegianization policy? Can the profile of the book collection tell us what kind of library it was? Article in Journal/Newspaper Finnmark Sámi Vadsø Finnmark University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway Vadsø ENVELOPE(29.749,29.749,70.073,70.073) Mémoires du livre 13 1 1 |
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Finmarksbibliotheket (“The Finnmark Library”) was established in the municipality of Vadsø in 1892, by central representatives of the town. It was intended to be a systematic collection “of books and manuscripts related to the history, ethnography, language, natural history, and statistics of Finnmark County,” especially “to collect everything written about the Sámi.” Its stock increased steadily, and in 1926 the library moved into its own building. In the same period, the assimilationist (Norwegianization) policy against the Sámi and Kven (Finnish population in Norway) was in its most intense phase, and the printing of Sámi and Kven books was restricted. This article explores the paradox that a library representing a pluralistic view of language and culture was established by administrators of an assimilationist policy. What role did the library play in the Norwegianization policy? Can the profile of the book collection tell us what kind of library it was? |
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The Finnmark Library A Scholarly Library in “Ultima Thule” |
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The Finnmark Library A Scholarly Library in “Ultima Thule” |
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The Finnmark Library A Scholarly Library in “Ultima Thule” |
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Groupe de recherches et d'études sur le livre au Québec, Canada |
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