Projects
The International Youth Library conducts ongoing projects that deal with the cataloguing, preservation and library mediation of the collection.
The International Youth Library conducts ongoing projects that deal with the cataloguing, preservation and library mediation of the collection.
The estate of Hans Baumann (1914-1988) has been catalogued in the web 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 archives of the International Youth Library with the estate of its founder Jella Lepman have been catalogued in the autograph database Kalliope with funding from the German Research Foundation and are 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.
The working library of Michael Ende will be made accessible in the course of the next years and can be searched in the webOPAC of the International Youth Library under the call number beginning with MEB.
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 a digitisation project planned for 2021-2023, 5,000 historical books from the collections of the IJB are to be digitised.