Projects

 The estate of Hans Baumann (1914-1988) has been indexed in the web autograph database Kalliope with funding from the German Research Foundation and is available for use in the reading room.

The partial estate of Michael Ende and the archive of the International Youth Library with the estate of its founder Jella Lepman have been catalogued in Kalliope with funding from the German Research Foundation and are available in the reading room.

The working library of Michael Ende has be made accessible and can be searched in the webOPAC of the International Youth Library under the call number beginning with MEB.

The estate of Josef Guggenmos is being indexed in Kalliope with funding from the German Research Foundation.

The estate of James Krüss has been catalogued in Kalliope with funding from the German Research Foundation and is available for use in the reading room.

The artistic legacy of Binette Schroeder is being catalogued in the Kalliope database with funds from the Binette Schroeder Foundation for the Cultural Promotion of International Children's Book Illustration. The Binette Schroeder Foundation has also financed the cataloguing of Lilo Fromm's artistic legacy.

The partial estate of Christa Spangenberg with a partial archive of the Ellermann-Verlagsarchiv was made accessible with funds from the Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek.

In order to preserve its special collections, the International Youth Library has been cleaning its magazine holdings since 2010.

The webOPAC is continuously enriched with original language information on Chinese works.

Legacy data of webOPAC is continuously updated by corrections of the catalogue data sets.

In the digitisation project "Colibri" (Corpus Libri et Liberi), which runs from 2021 until the end of 2023 and is funded by the DFG, around 5,000 books from the IJB's historical collections from the long 19th century are digitised.