She was very interested in fashion, clothes, make-up, hair styles and so on. I showed her some WWW sites for women. That was a beginning to her adventures - also to more serious things like finding addresses of university departments or state official pages. I think that the World Wide Web allows us to think differently, to find some fun or amusement in serious research work or scientific studies. Why Make Virtual Libraries Librarians have traditionally collected and arranged information for library users and also in order to make some collections.
Information collections form the basics for research and studies.
The virtual library was founded in 1996 by five librarians from five different libraries, who wanted to unite their forces. They got some money from The Ministry of Education of Finland in order to begin with Finnish Virtual Library. Now there are about ten different libraries from different fields of sciences collecting the virtual library together. The amount of special virtual libraries of sub-collections is now about 40. Making the virtual libraries or information gateways has different functions.