Programs

Current Projects

The collection functions for the community in the following ways:

  • Support for undergraduate and graduate courses in children and adolescent literature.
  • Reading rooms with open hours.
  • Presentations by international authors and illustrators.
  • An annual conference on children and adolescent literature.

Through these programs, many educators have participated in learning experiences and applied their knowledge using ICCAL resources. Classroom teachers have developed projects and research, which they used with children and converted into scholarly presentations.

Planned Projects

Projects of the ICCAL still in the planning include:

  • Formalization of ICCAL including acquisitions, collections, and shelving.
  • Website offering a searchable database with companion journal featuring book reviews and cutting edge teacher action research and vignettes.
  • An international distinguished scholar in residence.
  • Professional workshops.
  • An annual weeklong summer institute.

These projects will launch ICCAL as a global resource. In this way, we will expand our accessibility to teachers, librarians, researchers, and students world-wide thereby providing them with valuable information and resources that are not readily available.