Loan Service for the Exhibition "The World Through Picture Books -Librarians' favourite books from their country" (For organizations outside Japan)

The International Library of Children's Literature (ILCL) offers a loan service for the exhibition titled "The World Through Picture Books -Librarians' favourite books from their country".
These books were collected through "The World Through Picture Books" programme (link to IFLA website) led by the Libraries for Children and Young Adults IFLA section with the aim of making a list of picture books recommended by librarians from around the world.
The book set in Japan is available for loan free of charge to organizations in Asian and Oceanian countries.

*This page describes a loan service for organizations in Asian and Oceanian countries. For a loan service to organizations in Japan, please see here.

Latest news about the exhibition set

Contents of the exhibition set

• 360 picture books selected by librarians from 42 countries and regions
• a multilingual catalogue, "The World Through Picture Books"
• a list of books

* The picture books can be exhibited for free access under monitoring by the staff.

Applicants

• national or local government organizations
• public organizations that wish to hold an exhibition open to the public
• one or two organizations per year
• Those who are able to fulfill the conditions:
  Conditions (PDF:139KB)

Period

• one month (excluding the period of transportation)

Charge

• the cost of return shipping only (no booking fees)

Transportation

• Depending on the weight limit for a single box that can be sent via Express Mail Service (EMS) to your country, the exhibition set will be packed in five or six boxes.
• The exhibition set must be sent back via air mail.
• The borrower must bear the cost of insurance for the declared value of 2€ per book.

Application

• In principal, applications should be made before October of the previous Japanese fiscal year (from April 1st to March 31st).
• Please send an email to ml-ifla with the following information
• 1) Organization name
• 2) Postal address
• 3) Contact email address
• 4) Contact name
• 5) Desired loan period (within 1 month, excluding the period of transportation. Up to three choices)
• 6) Official homepage address or other information about your organization and activities (if any)
• 7) Purpose of the exhibition

Loan Records

Since the launch of this service in 2013 and through this fiscal year, the ILCL has lent or will lend exhibition book sets to 43 institutions in Japan and 5 institutions overseas, including public libraries, school libraries, university libraries, and other organizations that promote reading.

The ILCL has held several exhibitions in the past that included this exhibition book set. Most recently, The World Through Picture Books -Librarians' favourite books from their country.

Exhibition at the International Library of Children's Literature (2024)

Exhibition at the Punggol Regional Library, Singapore (2023)

* Find pictures of the past exhibitions from IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section facebook page (link to Facebook website).

• FY2023
  • National Library Board, Singapore (Punggol Regional Library) (Singapore)
• FY2019
  • Macau Library and Information Management Association (Macau, China)
• FY2014
  • Gosford City Library (Gosford, Australia)
• FY2013
  • National Library for Children and Young Adults (Seoul, Korea)
  • Subong Library (Incheon, Korea)

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