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SUMMARY:Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
DESCRIPTION:I am delighted to cohost this free webinar on translated literature for children and young adults. Please join us! \nExplorations in Translation for Children is a webinar series co-organized by The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (University of Reading) in partnership with Outside in World\, the organization dedicated to exploring and promoting children’s literature in translation. \nThis online webinar is free & open to all. To join via MS Teams\, please register here. \n\nOn Thursday 23 October at 5pm UK time we will be in conversation with the leaders of the project Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101\, sponsored by The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative. \n\n\nThe impact of global events is unmistakably apparent in our daily lives\, yet many Americans\, especially children and teenagers\, know little of world events and cultures. Moreover\, those best positioned to spark their learning — particularly librarians\, who are charged with bringing the knowledge of the world even to their littlest patrons — are ill-equipped to help them. Shockingly\, only a handful of accredited U.S. library schools even offer courses in international youth literature. \nThe Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 website is intended to serve as a toolkit for librarians\, but also for others who wish to learn more about youth literature — especially translations — from other countries. A global collection helps librarians serve communities with families from different countries and cultures\, helps children develop greater international understanding\, opens avenues for curiosity\, and creates opportunities for learning from counterparts abroad. \nUsed well\, these books can open windows\, unlock doors\, and serve as mirrors. To this end we provide curated booklists created by librarians\, subject matter experts\, and community contributors in the Starter Kit and aggregate relevant web-based materials in the resource-rich Hub. Together\, they are a one-stop shop for the global youth literature novice\, and the project leaders hope that even those already familiar with this literature will discover something new. \nSpeakers: \nDr. Annette Y. Goldsmith is the librarian at the Levy Library\, Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles. She is the founding editor of the online children’s literature journal\, The Looking Glass. An international youth literature specialist\, she teaches online graduate classes in children’s and young adult literature and librarianship\, most recently for the Kent State University Information School. \nDr. Marc Aronson is Associate Professor of Practice\, Library and Information Science\, at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He has worked in the field of literature for younger readers for more than thirty years as an author\, editor\, speaker\, publisher\, and critic. He is the only person to have been a winner or finalist for both of the American Library Association’s prizes for excellence in youth nonfiction as both an author and as an editor.\n\nDavid Jacobson is a journalist\, author and Japanese translator. His award-winning picture book biography\, Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko\, introduced the life and work of a beloved Japanese children’s poet to English-language readers. He is currently writing a biography of Jella Lepman\, founder of the International Youth Library and the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).
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