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Post by benziger on Jul 20, 2020 20:11:13 GMT
The Picture book collection of the Lucerne School of Education was founded by Hans A. Müller in the early 1970s. Today, the collection comprises more than 7500 titles and represents a representative cross-section of picture book creation of the past decades in German-speaking countries and beyond. Well catalogued, it serves as a basis for picture book didactics as well as for project, study and research work by students and teachers. The Lucerne Picture Book Collection has a reference collection. As the picture book collection was built up, a small specialist library was also established; unlike picture books, this secondary literature can be borrowed. The collection can be visited at the Educational Media Centre Lucerne (PMZ) during the opening hours of the PMZ. During the quarantine with distance learning, the picture book collection has continuously published practical game ideas and picture book tips in cooperation with the Centre for Theatre Pedagogy of the Lucerne School of Education. (links in German only) I am just wondering if there are similar or comparable collections or libraries elsewhere in the world? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 3:36:52 GMT
The Picture book collection of the Lucerne School of Education was founded by Hans A. Müller in the early 1970s. Today, the collection comprises more than 7500 titles and represents a representative cross-section of picture book creation of the past decades in German-speaking countries and beyond. Well catalogued, it serves as a basis for picture book didactics as well as for project, study and research work by students and teachers. The Lucerne Picture Book Collection has a reference collection. As the picture book collection was built up, a small specialist library was also established; unlike picture books, this secondary literature can be borrowed. The collection can be visited at the Educational Media Centre Lucerne (PMZ) during the opening hours of the PMZ. During the quarantine with distance learning, the picture book collection has continuously published practical game ideas and picture book tips in cooperation with the Centre for Theatre Pedagogy of the Lucerne School of Education. (links in German only) I am just wondering if there are similar or comparable collections or libraries elsewhere in the world? What part in particular are you looking to match? All our libraries here do the above; they collect books, they have programs for children, they educate. They do arts and crafts, storytime, art displays, and on and on. It's quite beautiful and has been a big part of my life and the whole community here. Basically people hang out there. |
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Post by benziger on Jul 23, 2020 21:05:03 GMT
I know mainly the following types of libraries: - National libraries, which collect all the books published in the country as legal deposit copies. In Switzerland, there are even two types of national libraries: on federal and sub-state level.
- Scientific libraries with scientific publications (University libraries)
- General libraries (city libraries, municipal libraries, school libraries) lend books (non-fiction, literature)
National libraries collect for eternity. Other libraries, however, also discard books.
The Lucerne picture book collection is a special library: like a scientific library, it collects only on a specific topic: only picture books for children. Like the National Library, it also collects for documentation purposes; it does not discard anything. Unlike a national library, however, it collects beyond the national borders.
In other words: in our municipal library there is a very large section with picture books. But once they are tattered and worn out, they are replaced by new titles. If I want to know what picture books looked like in 1950 or 1970, I'm in the wrong place. In the Zurich Central Library I find all the picture books of the Nordsüd-Verlag (Legal deposit copies of all publication in the state of Zurich), but not of the Zytglogge-Verlag (because in the canton of Berne); both I can find as Legal deposit copies (of all publications in Switzerland) in the Swiss National Library in Berne, but certainly nothing of the German and Austrian publishers who also publish in German. For this, I had to visit the National libraries in Vienna and Leipzig. This may demonstrate the value of such a special library. |
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jul 26, 2020 1:09:46 GMT
Libraries are limited on space (and in the UK starved of money and many have closed down). What normally seems to happen is that if a popular book becomes worn, they put it in the for sale section, and replace it. If it's no longer popular they will remove it and not restock it, often replacing it with something new. Most cities have vast reference libraries though, often with books so old and valuable they are literally chained to the shelf or in a glass box requiring permission to handle. I doubt they have a childrens' book section though. Places are more than happy to sell you old books for children though, if you can afford them. www.oldchildrensbooks.com/and covers can be found to view www.pinterest.co.uk/allynhoward/vintage-children-s-books/ |
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