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106 The library bus of Utsjoki cooperates with the municipalities of Karasjok and Porsanger in Norway. It serves customers in Finnish, Norwegian and Sámi. The mobile library of Muonio works together with the municipalities of Enontek iö, Kautokeino in Norway, and Kiruna in Sweden. This Nordic library bus provides services in Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Sámi. In the municipality of Inari, the library bus drives in an area in which four languages – Finnish, Inari Sámi, Skolt Sámi and North Sámi – are spoken. The mobile library is an excellent practical example of an economically and ecologically sustainable way of providing services for the inhabitants of sparsely-populated areas. In terms of ecology, it is sounder to drive one car to 20 people than vice versa: to have 20 people drive to one (library). The different players engaged in the sphere of Sámi library and cultural work form a circle that answers questions presented through the online information service Kysy Lapista (“Ask about Lapland”). In the Lapponica Information Service, questions dealing with the Sámi are answered by such institutions of expertise as the Sámi Museum, the Sámi Special Library and Inari Library. There is also a new cooperation forum on Facebook, Ask Barents , which focuses on Russia. Finnish and Sámi library work come together In Finland, Sámi library work is part of the national library service. Public libraries serve inhabitants similarly but, for the most part, only in Finnish. Often, a Sámi customer an d a Finnish official meet each other in the library. Only some of the library employees of the Sámi Area know the Sámi spoken in the region. The number of Sámi library employees is low. In its activities, the Sámi Special Library in Rovaniemi focuses on academic bibliographing based on collections. The Special Library maintains a Sámi bibliography, participates in