Guest Editorial: WELCOME TO HELSINKI IN AUGUST 1993!Author(s): Heikki PoroilaSource: Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 40, No. 1 (January-March 1993), p. 4Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23508183 .

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Guest Editorial

WELCOME TO HELSINKI IN AUGUST 1993!

Welcoming friends and colleagues is always a pleasure. It is a much more

demanding task to tell about the musical culture and music libraries of your country in some 75,000 words. In fact, it would be difficult enough using your own

language . . .

The initial decision to invite LAML and IASA colleagues to Helsinki was made in a little out-door cafe in Amsterdam after the closing session in 1987. Encour

aged by the repeated question from colleagues "When are we going to meet in Finland?" we came to a conclusion not just to think and wait but to be active.

The world has changed considerably since then, although this is not necessarily reflected in our international organization as yet. Nevertheless we are waiting for some completely new colleagues to arrive in Helsinki for the conference. These times are economically hard for all of us, but there is, I think, new hope for an international cooperation and communication.

The articles that follow try to give you an advance look at some features of our music libraries. We of course hope that you are not satisfied with this information but want to come to look and see for yourself. I am sorry to say that we cannot

provide polar bears walking on the streets of Helsinki—nor even living reindeer. But we are prepared to welcome you and your curiosity with official and unofficial

programs covering visits to Sibelius's Ainola as well as bathing in a savusauna

(smoke sauna). On behalf of the Finnish music library people I welcome you to Helsinki, the

daughter of the Baltic Sea.

Heikki Poroila

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