Finnish Book Source - FENNICA - Is Broken

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Finnish Book Source - FENNICA - Is Broken

1AbigailAdams26
Jul 13, 2021, 10:56 am

A member is reporting via email that they are unable to search certain Finnish language sources, on the Add books page. One of those is: FENNICA - The National Bibliography of Finland. I tested this, using a number of different Finnish authors from my own catalog (Inkeri Karvonen, Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Sesse Koivisto), and got the same notice that "The search has failed" each time.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to the Add books page https://www.librarything.com/addbooks

2. Select 'FENNICA - The National Bibliography of Finland' as the search database

3. Enter search term

4. The message "The search has failed" will appear

2lesmel
Jul 13, 2021, 11:37 am

Just to be thorough:

Until this is fixed: https://www.librarything.com/topic/332272 none of us that are not LT staff can fix any of the sources.

3kristilabrie
Jul 30, 2025, 9:25 am

I'm not sure where this landed—FENNICA's been removed from our sources, it looks like—but I'm poring through our broken sources, and just sent them an email. Maybe we can get them back.

4davidgn
Jul 30, 2025, 9:51 am

https://www.kiwi.fi/spaces/melinda/pages/166101210/Hakurajapinnat+Search+harvest... Looks like the info has changed. Busy, but if someone wants to update, details are at link.
"Fennica national bibliography and Viola national discography
Fennica's and Viola's bibliographic records can be queried with the sets fennica and viola respectively.

Arto - a collection of Finnish periodical and monograph articles in Melinda.
Arto's bibliographic records can be queried with the set arto."

5lesmel
Jul 30, 2025, 7:07 pm

There's a dupe under MELINDA. Not sure how you want to handle that @kristilabrie

6kristilabrie
Jul 31, 2025, 11:47 am

>4 davidgn: >5 lesmel: Aha, thanks! I guess let's keep FENNICA off, and keep MELINDA.