Subject Guide Children's and Juvenile Literature

• Emil-Figge-Bibliothek
• New additions
• Information for Academic Staff
• Department of Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University
• Library catalog, book trade directory
  • Online catalog of the International Youth Library, Munich
  • Kibum - Oldenburger Kinder- und Jugendbuchmesse
• Electronic full texts
  • Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe (CHILDE)
    Digitized children's books from all over Europe
  • Children's Books Collection of Braunschweig University Library
    Collection of children's books, amongst others from the Hobrecker collection
  • International Children's Digital Library
• Open Access in the field of Philology
  • What is Open Access?
  • Berlin Declaration
  • Information platform Open Access : Philology
• Links
  • Portals
    • Germanistik im Netz
    • Library of Anglo-American Culture & History
  • Children's and youth literature in general
    • Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids
      Search engine for child-specific sites; English-language
    • List of children's literature authors from the Wikipedia (German version)
    • Kinderbuch-Couch.de
      "Information portal for parents on the subject of children's books for ages 0-6".
• Organizations, Institutions
  • Institutes, research facilities
    • Children's Literature Association (ChLA)
    • Department of Children's and Juvenile Literature of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
    • OlFoKi (Uni Oldenburg, Forschungsstelle Kinder- und Jugendliteratur)
    • Institut für angewandte Kindermedienforschung, Stuttgart
  • Associations
    • International board on books for young people (IBBY)
    • Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Jugendarbeit Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V.
    • Verein zur Förderung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V.

German Studies is taken care of by the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main (as well as General and Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies). Children's and youth literature is also acquired within this framework. The acquisitions are indexed in current bibliographies or can be searched online.

Book locations in the Emil-Figge-Bibliothek (EFB)

• Books
  Shelf mark: C
• Textbook collection
  Shelf mark: L Ca
• Not borrowable
  • Encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies and handbooks are generally not available for loan, as are individual copies of much-used research and study literature.
  • Journals
    Shelf mark: ZC (Issues of the current year)

Catalogs of Dortmund University Library

• Catalog plus
• Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB, with holdings of German libraries)
  holdings of Dortmund University Library: NRW <290>
• Electronic journals on children's and youth literature
• Eldorado
  Catalogue of Dortmund University electronic publications (mainly theses). Full texts available.
• NRW: HBZ-Verbundkatalog
  Library catalog for North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate
• Germany: Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)
  for titles not available in Dortmund or NRW

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