Resources

Links

This is a preliminary list of links that we think you will find useful.

Please let Mavis Reimer (m.reimer@uwinnipeg.ca) know of others you think we should include and why you think they will be helpful to members.

IRSCL links cover the following areas:

Children's Book Collections

(also includes libraries that have many children's books, though not in a separate collection)

Canada

Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books

England

Renier Collection / Victoria & Albert Museum, Archive of Art & Design

Collections at the University of Worcester

Germany

Collections of Walter Benjamin, Karl Hobrecker and Arthur Rümann

Netherlands

Centrale Catalogus Kinderboeken (Central Catalogue of Children's Books)

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library

Slovenia

Pionirska knjiznica Ljubljana  (Children's Library)

USA

Alice M. Jordan Collection, Boston Public Library

American Antiquarian Society

Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University

De Grummond Children's Literature Collection

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Kerlan Collection

The Lilly Library

Morgan Library, New York

Rosenbach Museum and Library

University of California at Los Angeles

Documentation Centres and Libraries

Australia

Children's Literature Research Collection / The Pound Collection

Dromkeen: the Home of Australian Children's Book Illustration

Lu Rees Archives

Austria

Internationales Institut für Jugendliteratur und Leseforschung (International Institute for Children's Literature and Reading Research)

Studien- und Beratungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur(Study- and Advice centre for Children's Literature)

Canada

Canadian Children's Book Centre

Denmark

Danmarks Pædagogiske Bibliotek (Danish Pedagogical Library)

Finland

Lastenkirjainstituutti (The Finnish Institute for Children's Literature)

France

Centre de Recherche et d'Information sur la Littérature pour la Jeunesse (Research and Information Centre for Children's Literature)

Germany

Internationale Jugendbibliothek (International Youth Library)

Italy

Libri per Bambini e Ragazzi (Children's Books)

Japan

International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka

Netherlands

Letterkundig Museum (Literature Museum)

Norway

Norsk Barneboksinstitutt (Norwegian Institute for Children's Books)

Spain

Centro Internacional del Libro Infantil y Juventil (International Centre for Children's and Young Adult's Books)

Sweden

Svenska Barnboksinstitutet (Swedish Institute for Children's Books)

Switzerland

Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien (Swiss Institute for Children's and Young Adult's Media)

USA

The Library of Congress Children's Literature Centre

Research Centres

Australia

Centre for Research and Education in the Arts (CREA), University of Technology Sydney

Canada

Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, University of Winnipeg

Denmark

Center for Børnelitteratur (Centre for Children's Literature)

England

Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media, University of Reading

National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, University of Roehampton

International Forum for Research in Children's Literature, University of Worcester

France

Institut International Charles Perrault (International Charles Perrault Institute)

Germany

Institut für Jugendbuchforschung (Institute for Research in Children's Literature)

South Africa

Children's Literature Research Unit, University of South Africa

Sweden

Centrum för Barnkulturforskning (Centre for Research of Children's Culture), Stockholm University

USA

Centro Barahona para el Estudio de Libros Infantiles y Juveniles en Español (Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents)

Research Societies

Austria

Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (Austrian Research Society for Children's Literature)

Canada

Association for Research in the Cultures of Young People

Germany

Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (German Research Society for Children's Literature)

Spain

Asociación Nacional de Investigación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (National Association for Research in Children's Literature)

USA

Children's Literature Association

Universities with Programs in Children's Literature

Australia

Deakin University

England

University of Nottingham

University of Reading

University of Roehampton

Canterbury Christ Church University

University of Newcastle

Germany

Institut für Jugendbuchforschung (Institute for Research in Children's Literature)

Ireland

St. Patricks College, Drumcondra, Dublin

Slovenia

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education (Subject: Children's Literature)

Spain

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca

USA

Hollins University, Roanoke, VA

Illinois State University

Kansas State University

San Diego State University (Department of English and Comparative Literature)

Simmons College, Boston, MA

Other Children's Literature Sites

International

International Board on Books for Young People

Children's Historical Literature Disseminated Throughout Europe (CHILDE)

Austria

Studien- und Beratungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (STUBE) Research and Consulting Service for Children's and Young Adult Literature)

Finland

Children's Literature: Pure and Applied (ChiLPA), Åbo Akademi University

Germany

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Jugendliteratur und Medien (AJuM)

Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur (German Section of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People)

Greece

Greek Children's Literature Page

Italy

Children's Literature in Italy

Slovenia

Slovenian Children's Authors on the Net

Slovenian IBBY

USA

Children's Book Council

Children's Literature (University of South Florida Tampa Campus Library)

Children's Literature Ring (Engels)

The Children's Literature Web Guide

Venezuela

Banco del Libro