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Now available: IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section Newsletter - Spring Issue 2022

Newsletter from IFLA Section Libraries for Children and Young Adults with articles on reading promotion and early literacy.

Download the new Guidelines infographics poster

Check out the new graphic "short version" of the Guidelines for Library Services to Children aged 0-18.

Join IFLA's Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section

We are seeking co-opted members from under-represented regions including Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. In addition, we have a casual vacancy and are seeking a new member from anywhere in the world to fill that spot.

IFLA’s Safer Internet Day Survey: Report in Progress

IFLA’s Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section will soon publish the results of a survey into how libraries around the world are finding ways both to deliver on children’s right of access to information, while also keeping them safe.

Newsletter December 2021 - Libraries for Children and Young Adults

The articles in our current newsletter demonstrate how libraries truly align with the words of IFLA’s vision statement as they “inspire, connect, enable, and engage” young people around the world.

Programs and services for children with special needs

The goal of the Public Library in Croatia's Bjelovar is inclusion. Here's how they create programs and services that children with and without special needs can participate in equally.

Library programs supporting Roma children in Croatia

Under the motto "Library Accessible to All - a Library for All" the Fran Galovic Koprivnica Public Library strives for equal inclusion of a socially marginalized people.

Empowering Youth Through Art and Heritage

The Poudre River Public Library District’s bilingual art workshop IMAGINANTES offers an opportunity for Latinx youth to connect to their heritage, their community, and their future.

Choose Your Library Adventure and Discover the Wonders of the Library

During the pandemic, when schoolchildren's visits to Singapore's libraries dropped, the National Library Board innovated new ways to interact with students online.

Children impress as talk show hosts at Stockholm Public Library

Stockholm Public Library's new program series is a recorded talk show about books - planned and run by children. Adult authors might be invited as guests, but librarians and other adults gets to stay behind the camera.

Standing on one foot - a Norwegian library's digital focus during the pandemic

The pandemic didn’t pull the rug from under our feet. It simply meant that we had to stand on one foot for a while.

Special Mention at the Dynamic Unit and Impact Award 2021 for the Libraries to Children & Young Adults Section

We are proud to accept this Special Mention as a recognition of the many efforts the Section undertakes to communicate effectively with IFLA members and library colleagues around the world.

Uploading titles for the World Through Picture Books 3rd edition catalogue has started

Country coordinators can start now uploading their selection of titles for the 3rd edition of the World Through Picture Books catalogue

“Using Retro Technologies in a Children’s Library”: Latest addition to the SC Best Practices YouTube channel

At the Russian State Library for Young Adults (RSLYA), we hold interactive meetings together with children, actively using retro technologies.

IFLA’s Libraries for Children & Young Adults Section Newsletter May 2021 is online

Streaming of Section's 2021 Midyear Meeting available

The IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section held it’s 2021 Midyear Meeting online on March 19th via Zoom. Since the registrations were booked very fast we decided to stream the Midyear Meeting – for the first time in the history of the Section!

2021 online Midyear Meeting on Challenges and Opportunities of Dealing with Covid-19

Five presentations covering the worldwide challenges to libraries for children and young adults and their dealings during the Covid-19 pandemic will form the center piece of the Section's annual Midyear Meeting 2021. The presentations will be followed by a live Q&A session with the speakers.

Survey on Internet Safety for children and young adults starts February 9 - open until April 1st

In conjunction with Safer Internet Day, February 9, 2021, IFLA's Section on Children & Young Adults' Safer Internet Day Working Group has created a survey. The survey had a good response until March 9 with nearly 400 answers - we decided to leave it open until April 1 to increase the number of information from around the world.

Viviana Quiñones (1958-2020)

With the lines that follow we would like to memorialize Viviana Quiñones, our dear and outstanding colleague in the IFLA section 'Libraries for Children and Young Adults'. After more than two years of illness, she died on 16 December 2020.

April 2020 Newsletter on Children’s Libraries' Services during Corona Pandemic is online

Our April 2020 Newsletter brings best practices and interesting reports on library services to children and young adults in times of Corona pandemic from around the world to you.