International Board on Books (IBBY) & International Children’s Digital

Library (ICDL)Jennifer Wilkin

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What is IBBY?

“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.”

Mission to promote international understanding through

children's books

to give children everywhere the opportunity to have access to books with high literary and artistic standards

to encourage the publication and distribution of quality children's books, especially in developing countries

to provide support and training for those involved with children and children's literature

to stimulate research and scholarly works in the field of children's literature

How it began…1952- Jella Lepman (German journalist, author and translator)

organized International Understanding through Children’s Book

in Munich, Germany.

This meeting gathered authors, publishers, teachers and

philosophers. A committee was appointed to create the

International Board on Books for Young People – IBBY.

1953- IBBY was registered as a non-profit

organization in Zurich, Switzerland.

The founding members included:

Erich Kästner, Lisa Tetzner, Astrid

Lindgren, Jo Tenfjord, Fritz Brunner,

Bettina Hürlimann and Richard

Bamberger.

OrganizationMembers of the National Sections: Authors, illustrators,

publishers, editors, translators, journalists, critics, teachers,

university professors, students, librarians, booksellers,

social workers and parents.

Executive Committee: 10 people from different countries

and a President, elected biennially by the National Sections

at a General Assembly during the IBBY Congresses.

They work on a voluntary basis.

Secretariat: The daily management of IBBY's affairs is

conducted from its Secretariat based in Basel, Switzerland.

National Sections- Receive all IBBY information (IBBY Newsletter, Press Releases,

IBBY’s journal Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s

Literature).

- Are entitled to vote in the IBBY Membership Assembly and has the

right to nominate the serving IBBY Officers.

- Have the exclusive right to nominate candidates for the Hans

Christian Andersen Award, the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award

and titles for the IBBY Honour List.

Each section pays an annual membership due and must submit a

biennial report of their activities.

The IBBY Executive Committee decides on the amount of dues for each

National Section upon the following criteria: the member country’s

economic standing, its standard of living, its children’s book production

and the country’s presence on the international book market.

Activities

IBBY Honour List

IBBY Documentation Centre of Book

s for Disabled Young People

International Children's Book Day

Tsunami Relief ProgramThese projects were initiated immediately

following the 2005 Tsunami disaster that hit

the Indian Ocean region.

Indonesia

India

Thailand

The Maldives

Programs: IBBY Yamada Program

Teams with 60 National Sections to help to produce and

develop a book culture for children within regions with special

needs and lack support.

The Campaign includes the following projects:

• Books for Africa – Books from Africa

• Develop networking in Asia and in the Pacific

• Campaign for reading in Central America and the

Caribbean

• Campaign for reading in the Arab speaking countries

• Keep national children’s literature alive!

Programs: IBBY Children in CrisisThe purpose of IBBY Fund for Children in Crisis fund

is to provide support for children whose lives

have been disrupted through war, civil disorder

or natural disaster.

Goals:

- Therapeutic use of books and storytelling in the form

of bibliotherapy.

- Creation or replacement of collections of selected

books that are appropriate to the situation.

Asahi Reading Promotion Award

The Asahi Reading Promotion Award was established in 1986

during the IBBY Congress in Tokyo.

Sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper company.

Presented biennially to two groups or institutions whose

outstanding activities are judged to be making a lasting

contribution to reading promotion programs for children and

young people.

Nominations are submitted by the National Sections of IBBY

and may include projects from any part of the world. The jury

consists of members of the IBBY Executive Committee.

Hans Christian Andersen Awards

The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are presented biennially

to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have

made a lasting contribution to children's literature.

The Author's Award has been given since 1956 and the

Illustrator's Award has been given since 1966.

It is the highest international recognition given to an author

and an illustrator of children's books.

Nominations are made by the National Sections of IBBY and

the recipients are selected by a distinguished international

jury of children's literature specialists.

Books for AfricaBooks from Africa

This virtual exhibition has chosen and

reviewed 84 books from Africa for

Africa.

Picture Books

Children ’s Fiction

Folk Tales

Young Adult Fiction

Others

CongressIBBY's congress is a biennial gathering of IBBY members and

other people involved in children's books and reading

development from all over the world to network and exchange

ideas.

Every two years a different National Section hosts the

Congress.

Several hundred people attend the lectures, panel discussions,

seminar sessions and workshops on relevant congress themes.

An IBBY Congress is also allotted time for the presentation of

different exhibitions and awards such as the Hans Christian

Andersen Awards and the IBBY Honour List.

Congress 2012

IBBY PartnershipsCODE: Canada's International Literacy Agency for Children

“In developing countries, we support a network of partner organizations to

design, deliver and evaluate quality literacy programs. We also engage

Canadians to participate in education initiatives on global issues. Our

programs support libraries and teacher training as well as national and local

book publishing in about 20 languages in Africa and the Caribbean.”

International Reading Association – IRA

“Since 1956, IRA has been a nonprofit, global network of individuals and

institutions committed to worldwide literacy. More than 70,000 members

strong, the Association supports literacy professionals through a wide range

of resources, advocacy efforts, volunteerism, and professional development

activities. Our members promote high levels of literacy for all.”

International Federation of Library Associations

and Institutions – IFLA

Donations to IBBY

-IBBY Appeal for Japan (2011)

-IBBY Appeal for Pakistan (2010)

-IBBY Haiti Appeal (2010)

International Children’s Digital

Library“The mission of the International Children's Digital

Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's

children in becoming effective members of the global

community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse

cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in

children's literature available online free of charge. The

Foundation pursues its vision by building a digital library of

outstanding children's books from around the world and

supporting communities of children and adults in exploring and

using this literature through innovative technology designed in

close partnership with children for children.”

Foundation GoalsCollection

- Create a collection of more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet. 

- Each collection should reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, lifestyles, and priorities of peoples around the world.

- Identify proper materials that help children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live. It is hoped that through a greater understanding of one another that tolerance and acceptance can be achieved.

Education

- Build a stronger understanding of the relationship between children's access to a digital collection of multicultural materials and children's attitudes toward books, libraries, reading, technology, and other countries and cultures.

Technology

- Seek assistance from children worldwide in the design and development of computer interface technologies that support children in searching, browsing, reading, and sharing books in electronic form.

Business

- Develop a program that insures the Library’s growth in accordance with its strategic priorities and in a manner that supports its outstanding human and intellectual resources to achieve the Library's mission of reaching as many children as possible with the best of children's literature.

Fast Facts

- The ICDL collection includes 4643

books in 61 languages.

- ICDL users come from 228 different

countries.

- The ICDL has been visited by over 3

million people since it was developed in

November, 2002.

Top Ten (2009):United States (53%)

Peru (4%)

India (4%)

Canada (3%)

United Kingdom (3%)

Israel (2%)

Australia (2%)

Spain (2%)

Taiwan (2%)

Mexico (2%)

KidsteamICDL works with children from around the

world for help designing and testing the ICDL interfaces, reviewing books, and sharing their impressions about the role of books, libraries,

technology, and culture in their lives.

ICDL researchers currently work with 19 children at 5 different international sites. To learn about these sites and the children at

each one, select from the list below.

College Park, MD, USA

Chicago, IL, USA

La Ceiba, Honduras

Munich, Germany

Wellington, New Zealand

PartnersOrganizations

American Library Association (ALA)

Center for the Book

International Youth Library  (IJB), Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section/International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)

Library of Congress (LOC)

Advisors

Librarian advisory board, International advisory board, Additional suthors, illustrators and researchers

Collection development

Publishers, Book Contributors

Volunteers

Translators

Sponsors

ResearchInternational Research with Children

Funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the

International Research with Children project works in four countries to

explore how children perceive other cultures outside of their own and to

describe the role of books, libraries, technology, and culture in children's

lives.

ICDL Communities

Funded by the NSF, the ICDL Communities research project works to

enable communities of children to develop around the ICDL book collection

by building tools that allow intercultural communication between children.

Research Programs

Funded by a large number of concerned individuals and organizations, The

International Children's Digital Library Foundation supports directly a

number of research projects in Library Sciences, Computer Science and

Education. This support provides the foundation upon which the Library

has been built.

Get Involved- Member/Sponsor

- Book contributor

- Volunteer Library Translator

- Library ambassador

- Recommend a book for featured books

- Check out the Gift Shop

- Get the Apps (ICDL for iPhone/iPad or StoryKit)

Bibliography

International Board on Books for Young People. IBBY, 4 July

2012. Web. 1 July 2012. <http://www.ibby.org/>.

International Children's Digital Library. ICDL Foundation,

n.d. Web. 1 July 2012. <http://en.childrenslibrary.org/>.

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Quiet Struggle: Information and Libraries for the People of

Africa. 88-114. Print.