User’s Guide to Scandinavian Links
I have kept all the Scandinavian Links on one long page so that you can use your browser’s “Find” button to search for a keyword that may occur in several countries’ sections. But I would like
to get feedback from all visitors about this arrangement. With one
long page, the loading time will in most cases range from 20 seconds
to 1.5 minutes, but once the page is loaded, you will be able
to move quickly to any section and to search the whole page at once.
If you will have occasion to use the links page frequently, you
can always save it to your hard disk and then point your browser at it
(file:///[path]). It will load in a snap. You can re-visit my site from
time to time and save an updated version.
My alternative to the single-page set-up is to break up the links into separate pages by
country/region. There would be eleven shorter pages, so each page would load fairly quickly, and I could put a table of contents with links
in a narrow frame at the left. But to search the whole collection of
links, you would have to do the search eleven times. Please let me
know if you typically visit the page to find something in a given
country or to search the links for several countries (or the
whole region); by all means say which sort of set-up you would prefer.
Even within a single country’s listings, it is a good idea to use your browser’s Find button, since the categories are approximate: e.g., a site that lists
concerts may be in the Tourism category, while the site of a
particular music festival may be under Arts. For the benefit of those who do not read Nordic languages, I have tried to include English translations of most of the site titles that are not in English. Many of the sites have English-language pages available once you get there, even if I have not supplied a separate link to an English version.
Under each country or region you will find the following categories:
- Net, Web, Post Office, Telephone, Tourism, Work
- Language Resources
- Arts
- Universities, Colleges, Libraries, Pedagogy
- Publishers, Bookstores, Books and Journals
- Other Media: Newspapers, Radio, TV
- Government and NGOs
- Genealogy (Roots) (This appears only for some countries)
Please note the following details about the organization of the page:
- Viking links are under “Whole Nordic Region.”
- Electronic Texts: Collections are considered libraries and therefore appear under “Universities, Colleges, Libraries, Pedagogy.”
- Electronic Texts: Exclusively literary texts are listed under “Arts.”
- Primary and secondary schools and school systems are listed under “Government and NGOs.” However, resources for teaching often appear under “Universities, Colleges, Libraries, Pedagogy.”
- Business and Finance links are rarely listed separately here, but many are available through the general-information, newspaper and media sites that do appear.
- Science, sports, cooking, pets, religion etc. are almost entirely absent; they can be found more readily by searches for sites devoted to their fields.
If you discover a dead link or one whose URL has changed, or you would like to suggest
additions, deletions, or changes of placement, please send me e-mail:
roger@chass.utoronto.ca (Roger Greenwald)
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