Section of Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Medium Term Programme 1998-2001

Scope statement

Its main objectives are to promote international cooperation in the fields of library services to children and young adults, and to encourage the exchange of experience, education and training and research in all aspects of this subject. The Section's concerns include the provision of library services to all children and young adults in different culture and traditions in cooperation with appropriate organisations and to adults interacting with children and young adults.

Goals, 1998-2001 - Action Plans, 1998-1999

Goal 1

Promote literacy for a reading society.

Actions:

1.1 Co-sponsor a pre-seminar before Bangkok 1999 with the Section on Reading and Division VIII.

1.2 Start a project concerning the need of an early beginning of reading aloud for the child in the pre-school age. Project starting with request for project money in September 1998. Product: Leaflet for promotion.

Goal 2

Encourage a relevant integration of changing technologies in libraries for children and young adults.

Goal 3

Advocate for the children's right to information, according to the United Nations' Convent on Children's Rights.

Action:

3.1 Open session on the children's rights to information for the IFLA Conference in Amsterdam 1998.

Goal 4

Encourage international networking among professionals and researchers of children's literature, multimedia and children's library services in general.

Actions:

4.1 IRAYLS Promotion for getting more subscriptions and more abstracts. Printing a yearly update. Request for project money in September 1997.

4.2 Children's Literature Abstracts - promotion for getting more subscriptions and abstracters. Request for project money in September 1997.

Goal 5

Articulate the role of the librarians in the future.

Goal 6

Encourage the production and study of children's literature and multimedia.