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Keyword from Index: youth literature

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Switzerland
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together.

Italy
“Biblioteca De Amicis“ was founded as Italy’s first child and youth library in 1971 in Genua following the example of the International Child and Youth Library in Munich. The library is acclaimed for its innovative activities, it promotes literacy and especially media and information competency. In particular, the library maintains many reading clubs for different age [...]

Italy
“Hamelin“ is a cultural association dedicated to promoting child literacy. Besides its many other activities, the organisation runs the national reading competition “Xanadu. Comunità di lettori ostinati“ (Xanadu. society of avid readers). Experts for child and youth literature from Bologna University are organised in “Hamelin Associazione Culturale“. “Hamelin“ [...]

Australia
The Centre for Youth Literature, State Library Victoria is Australia`s leading advocate on reading for teenagers. Established in 1991 as the `Youth Literature Program`, the Centre was originally based at the Victorian Writers Centre. The Centre for Youth Literature is now a fully integrated program and resource of the Library. In 2005, the name was abbreviated to the Centre [...]

Australia
The Children`s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a volunteer run, not for profit, organisation that was established in 1945 and is comprised of branches of individual members who are passionate about children`s and young adult literature. Its aim is to celebrate and promote children and young adults’ literature in Australia, by providing merchandising, networking and [...]

France
The organization “La Joie par les livres“ was founded in 1963 by a private sponsor, Anne Gruner-Schlumberger. The organization intends to provide children with free access to a library in their neighbourhood. The respective library was opened in 1965. Today, “La Joie par les livres“ is associated with the French National Library, more precisely with its department [...]

Austria
The institute for philosophy for children, whose support is the Austrian society for philosophy for children, exists since 1985. It fosters education and further education of children, adolescents and adults, advises pedagogical institutions, generates project descriptions, develops and recommends seminar and work papers and serves as philosophical counselling point. On the [...]

Austria
The institute, founded in 1965 as non-profit society, sees itself as service and communication centre for the field of child and youth literature. Its tasks are, besides the counselling activity, the further and continuing education of referral organisations, creation of national and international networks and the development resp. procurement of information, data bases and [...]

Switzerland
The Schweizerische Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien (SIKJM) - the Swiss Institute for Child and Youth Media- is a merger of the Schweizerischen Bund für Jugendliteratur (SBJ) with the Schweizerischen Jugendbuch-Institut (SJI) that was founded in 2002, as part of the Johanna Spyri foundation. It receives support from the ministries of science, culture and education and [...]

Ireland
ScoilNet is managed by the National Center for Technology in Education (NCTE) and is part of the project "Schools IT 2000". It is an online support service giving information on educational issues generally, for pupils, parents and teachers. The teachers and parents pages offer information about school, curricula, teaching material for download, download of "Education Matters" [...]

Europe
CHILDE (Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe) is a project, funded under the European Commission's CULTURE 2000 programme, that uses web technology to allow wider and more open access to images from collections of early children's books in Europe. The digitised European historical children's book collection featured on this site will be a key [...]