Scandinavian Studies Web: What's New?

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Scandinavian Studies Web: What's New?

2/15/01 Biblioteknett , the official Norwegian library gateway, added to the Library Catalogs and Databases; NORLA, a government-funded foundation that provides information on Norwegian literature and authors, from the Literature page; and to Norway.org - a site of the Norwegian embassy in Washingtonian D.C., from Other Scandinavian Gateways.
2/14/01 Link to Ibsen senteret and its international Ibsen bibliography added to the Literature page.

Norway.org

10/9/00 Replacement of Scandinavian Studies Departments link from main page to a full page dedicated to Organizations; addition of iceland.org to the Gateways page and the Organizations page
9/29 Addition of caplex.net, the first Norwegian web encyclopedia, to the Reference Shelf
5/23/00 Redesign of front page, including addition of search feature.
4/24/00 Aurora Boreal - a website devoted to Scandinavian culture, with emphasis on literature and aimed at Spanish readers, added to the Literature page.
4/17/00 Reykjavík City Library Literature 2000: Author Presentations and Modern Icelandic Fiction: A bibliography of Translations into European languages to the Literature page. Nationalbibliografi (Royal Library) - the Danish national bibliography and a number of bibliographic indexes added to Libraries and Information Services.
3/30/00 The History of Finland (from Virtual Finland) and A Web History of Finland (by Pasi Kuoppamäki) added to the History page.
2/2/00 Swedish Information Service from the Consulate General of Sweden -- with lots of information on Sweden and Swedish-American organizations, including Swedish Events, a monthly listing of Swedish events and visitors in the U.S. -- added to Other Scandinavian Gateways.
1/21/00 Bibliografi til Norges historie, a searchable database of articles on Norwegian history, added to the History page.
1/7/00 Arto - database of approximately 10,000 Finnish journal articles (1995- ), with fee-based searching, added to Libraries and Information Services.
1/5/00 Nobel Foundation and Svenska Institutet added to Reference Shelf under Associations, Organizations. Svenska Akademien removed from Literature page, since this is accessible through the Nobel site. Links to Ordböcker och lexikon from the Svenska Institutet added to Reference Shelf under Dictionaries & Grammars. Danish Retskrivningsordbogen added to Reference Shelf. Artikeldatabasen, an index with approximately 40,000 references to Swedish articles, added to Libraries and Information Services.
12/20/99 Bothnica, bibliographic database for emigration history of Northern Sweden, added to the History page. Agenda for the ALA midwinter meeting added to the Scandinavian Discussion Group page.
12/7/99 Art page added, with a single link to a site on the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen.
9/21/99 Bogens Verden from the Danish Library Association added to Libraries and Information Services.
7/13/99 Minutes from the 1999 Scandinavian Discussion Group meetings added.
7/7/99 Den Danske artikelbase, an index to articles in 750 Danish periodicals and 8 Danish national newspapers, added to Libraries and Information Services. Granum virtual bookstore and Schildts Förlags added to Book Trade, Publishers, etc. Electronic journals and newspapers from the Helsinki University Library (in Finnish) added to Scandinavian Newspapers and Other News Sources. The Finnish Virtual Library, Virtual Finland and Nordic Web Index added to Other Scandinavian Gateways.
6/18/99 Addition of Denmark's TV2 television station news and broadcasts to Newspapers and Other News Sources.
6/6/99 Revision and update of the History Page.
5/21/99 Antiquarian Books in Scandinavia, database of over 102,000 titles from 26 Swedish and Danish members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, added to Book Trade, Publishers, etc.
5/21/99 Saxo, major database and Internet bookstore for Denmark with over 80,000 titles published since 1991 and continually updated with new titles, added to Book Trade, Publishers, etc.
4/13/99 Helsinki University Library/The National Library of Finland, online catalog and databases, including the Finnish national bibliography; and a list of University Libraries in Finland added to Scandinavian Libraries and Library Catalogs.
2/17/99 Pulse, Finnish public libraries page, added to Scandinavian Libraries and Library Catalogs.
1/25/99 Pagina, index to Swedish websites, added to Other Scandinavian Gateways.
11/16/98 More literary prizes (Finland and Sweden) added; also Other Scandinavian Gateways, including the Yahoo! service from several countries.
11/5/98 The Literature page now includes a link to Danish literary prizes, which lists prizewinners from the year the prize was founded to the present (the current year's prizewinner might not have been added yet).
10/19/98 Pages for History and Politics and Government have been added.
7/16/98 Sámi Studies (from the University of Helsinki).
6/19/98 At this point, the Scandinavian Studies Web is new! Welcome.

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