Multilingual Libraries - ECIS MLIE Conference 16-18 February 2024 | The British Library, London - LibGuides at International School of Amsterdam

Multilingual Collection Development: Best Practices

NCTE - Beyond Spanish: Building Truly Multilingual Classroom and School Libraries
English and Spanish dominate libraries, but 25 percent of US English language learners don’t speak Spanish. How can educators find quality texts for them?

When Your Characters Speak a Language Other Than English
Considerations for the ways multilingual characters express themselves regardless of the language they are speaking at the time.

AI and School Libraries

Librarians Can Play a Key Role Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Schools
"AI will be more than just a tool, however. Schools will also need to consider how to teach students to be critical users and prepare them to live in a world where they will be learning and perhaps, one day, working alongside AI.

School librarians are perfectly suited for this new role."
AI Glossary of Terms
A collection of AI terms from AI ethics to Supervised and Unsupervised Learning from School Library Journal.

Multilingual Research - Open Access

CORE – Aggregating the world's open access research papers
Search for open access, multilingual research papers.

Multilingual Research - ISA Subscription Databases

Gale in Context: Global Issues
Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.

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ChatGPT is a marvel of multilingualism
Via Gale Global Issues database.

Gale In Context: Global Issues Webinar

Multilingual Reading: International Book Awards

Arabic - Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature
The Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature is one of the most important children's literature prizes in the Arab world and one of the richest in the world. It was launched in 2009 on the initiative of Her Highness Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al-Qasimi, Founder and Patron of the UAE Board on Books for Young People and CEO of Kalimat publishing house.

Chinese - Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award
Award to "acknowledge distinctive original Chinese picture books to encourage the publishing and reading of Chinese picture books."

Danish - The Ministry of Culture's children's and young people's book awards.
The Ministry of Culture's author prize and illustrator prize for children's and youth books are awarded every year.

Dutch - Gouden Griffel en Gouden Penseel
The Griffels en Brushes are awarded annually by the professional jury and are the most important prizes for Dutch children's books. The Griffels are awarded to the best children's literature and the Brushes to the most beautifully illustrated picture books.

French - Prix des Incorruptibles
Now in its 35th year, the Prix des Incorruptibles engages francophone students from kindergarten to high school in reading a selection of books, voting for their favorite book and arguing for their choice via competition. This award scheme invites students to read for the whole school year, October through May.

Multilingual - Hans Christian Andersen Award
"The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children's books. Given every other year by IBBY, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards recognize lifelong achievement and are presented to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children's literature."

Multilingual - IBBY Honour List
"The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of outstanding, recently published books, honouring writers, illustrators and translators from IBBY member countries. The IBBY Honour List is one of the most widespread and effective ways of furthering IBBY's objective of encouraging international understanding through children's literature."

Multilingual - The White Ravens
"The annually published »The White Ravens« catalogue features brief annotations of 200 notable new children’s and young adult books from more than 50 countries and in almost 40 languages. The books are selected by the International Youth Library’s children’s literature experts from the large number of review and donation copies the library receives in the course of one year. The team focuses on titles that might be of interest to an international audience because of their literary and pictorial quality and/or the topics they address."

Multilingual in Translation - ASLC Batchelder Award
"This award, established in her honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to a United States publisher for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originating in a country other than the United States and in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States during the preceding year.ALSC gives the award to encourage US publishers to seek out superior children's books abroad and to promote communication among the peoples of the world."

Multilingual in Translation - Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize
"The purpose of the GLLI Translated YA Book Award is to recognize publishers, translators, and authors of books in English translation for young adult readers. The award has been established to honor the most outstanding translated work that was originally written and published (or simultaneously published) in a language other than English."

Portuguese - Jabuti Award for Children's Literature
"The biggest difference of the Jabuti Award in relation to other awards is its scope: in addition to valuing writers, it highlights the quality of the work of all the professionals involved ) in the creation and production of a book. Every year, publishers from the most diverse segments and independent writers from all over Brazil enter their works in search of the much-coveted statuette and the recognition it provides. Receiving the Jabuti Award is a cherished desire for those who use books as an instrument of culture."
Portuguese - Jabuti Award for Youth Literature
"The biggest difference of the Jabuti Award in relation to other awards is its scope: in addition to valuing writers, it highlights the quality of the work of all the professionals involved ) in the creation and production of a book. Every year, publishers from the most diverse segments and independent writers from all over Brazil enter their works in search of the much-coveted statuette and the recognition it provides. Receiving the Jabuti Award is a cherished desire for those who use books as an instrument of culture."

Multilingual Reading: International Book Events

Dutch - Kinderboekenweek
Since 1954, Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek has celebrated Dutch children's literature with Kinderboekenweek with an annual theme, songs and dances, poems, author ambassadors, specially published picture books, and events in schools and libraries across the Netherlands.

Multilingual - Bologna Children's Book Fair - BCBF BolognaRagazzi Awards - BRAW
"A total of 3355 titles were submitted by publishers from 65 countries and regions around the world: these are the 2024 numbers of the BolognaRagazzi Awards - BRAW, the highest ever for the annual Bologna Children's Book Fair awards aimed at highlighting the most beautiful and innovative picture books published worldwide in the recent period."

Multilingual in Translation - WorldKidLit Month
"Every September is World Kid Lit Month: the time to discover world literature and translation for children and young adults."

World Literature Organizations

Multilingual in Translation - Global Literature in Libraries Initiative
"The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative strives to raise the visibility of world literature for adults and children at the local, national and international levels. We intend to do so by facilitating close and direct collaboration between translators, librarians, publishers, editors, and educators, because we believe that these groups in collaboration are uniquely positioned to help libraries provide support and events to engage readers of all ages in a library framework that explores and celebrates literature from around the world."

The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together.

Mission:
- to promote international understanding through children's books
- to give children everywhere the opportunity to have access to books with high literary and artistic standards
- to encourage the publication and distribution of quality children's books, especially in developing countries
- to provide support and training for those involved with children and children's literature
- to stimulate research and scholarly works in the field of children's literature
- to protect and uphold the Rights of the Child according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child"

Multilingual in Translation - World Kid Lit Blog
"Project World Kid Lit is a global, groundroots community focused on raising awareness of world literature for young people.

What does world literature mean to you? We interpret the concept of #WorldKidLit broadly, to encompass children’s and young adult books, stories, authors and illustrators, from other countries, set in other countries, and books translated into English from other languages."