Archive news!
11 May 2012 | This 'n' that
We’re delighted to be able to announce that the selection of the material published on the web pages of Books from Finland in the last phase of its existence as a printed journal, 1998–2008, is now available on this website.
The monthly archive selection has been extended back to 1998, and more than two dozen new contributor details have been added. Plus, any term you enter in the search box at the top right of the webpage will now look through everything we have online – not just what has been published since we went digital in 2009. So if you vaguely remember a piece about xx, or just want to play games by seeing how often we’ve featured yy, just enter your term in the search box and away you go.
This is just the first step in our bigger project of digitising a broad selection of pieces from Books from Finland‘s history, from 1976 (when it began to appear as a quarterly journal) onwards. The Books from Finland archive – 132 printed issues were published from 1976 to 2008, featuring hundreds of authors – represents an unparalleled treasure trove of Finnish literature and literary debate in English, and we can’t wait to get as much as we can online.
It is a long, slow process, so don’t hold your breath… But as we add new pieces we’ll be flagging them up and drawing them to your attention, from classics to some real period pieces, sometimes with new introductions by contemporary writers.
Watch this space – please remember, good things are worth waiting for!
Tags: archives
4 comments:
27 March 2012 on 6:54 pm
I’m so pleased. I’ve been wanting to be able to look through back issues and see what’s in there.
Thanks.
22 April 2012 on 11:42 pm
I’ve got a box of back issues, and I still regret the passing of the printed version. You can read a magazine on the bus, on the train, or even in bed. The internet makes everything more accessible, but less cosy.
I’m certainly grateful for this archiving initiative back to 1998, as I can then have the best of both worlds and check where an interesting article can be found, then see if I can find the printed version in my box.
27 April 2012 on 12:00 pm
I would like the issues to go back well before that time period.
I still look at back issues from the 1980s.
30 April 2012 on 12:23 pm
Dear Charles,
thanks for your comment – the following information was published in our news piece about the new archive material. We are currently digitising pieces from the issues published between 1976 and 2008, and even though this is a slow process, we are looking forward to being offer more BfF stuff to our readers online!
best,
the editors
…This is just the first step in our bigger project of digitising a broad selection of pieces from Books from Finland‘s history, from 1976 (when it began to appear as a quarterly journal) onwards. The Books from Finland archive – 132 printed issues were published from 1976 to 2008, featuring hundreds of authors – represents an unparalleled treasure trove of Finnish literature and literary debate in English, and we can’t wait to get as much as we can online.