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Our small nation (population 334.000) faces a big problem
• Writing for children and young adults is not profitable because the market is small.
• Official funding is little.
• Relatively few book for children and young adults are published annually.
• School libraries need more funding to provide new books.
• The children have access to endless material on the internet and in the media.
• Most of this material is in English.
• Children read less and our language is becoming an endangered species!
What can be done?
VAT
Increased financial support for the school library activities and buying of books
Increased official support and grants for writers who write for children and young adults
Make sure that all children have good access to books they want to read.
Public libraries - school libraries.
What can we do?
Create a safe and secure atmosphere
Great collection of books and other material that the children really want to read and use.
Interesting reading promotion programmes.
Some school libraries are preparing Makerspace in their libraries
Support digital literacy and wellbeing.
Reading Promotion Programmes
Various programmes in the schools
Based on different themes
There is no limit
Many ideas have come from children - but the librarians are quite
innovative as well!
Dragons, Yule lads, vampires, horses, princesses, Harry Potter, Beast Quest etc., etc…
The Dragon Club - all the stories have dragons in them
The children choose from different categories and read 8 - 10 books at their own choice
Apprentice
Specialist
Dragonmaster 1st degree
Dragonmaster 2nd degree
Dragonmaster 3rd degree
Dragonmaster 1st degree
Writers´ visits and other events
School librarians organize writers´visits to the schools.
Usually at the beginning of the Christmas Book Flood.
Both entertaining and informative visits.
Increased interest in reading.
The international Teddy Bear Day
Banned Books Week
International Childrens Book Day (April 2nd - H. C. Andersen)
My favorite character day (book or film)
Week of the Book
World Book Day (April 23rd - Halldór Kiljan Laxness)
Ready, steady, read - a national game of reading
Everyone reads... Miðstöð íslenskra bókmennta - Icelandic Literature Center
Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
Félag íslenskra bókaútgefanda - Icelandic Publishers
The Nordic Library Week
The Nordic Library Week is a read aloud event, where the same Nordic literature is read out loud at the same time across the Nordic, Baltic and other Nordic institutions around the world. Places such as libraries, schools and other cultural institutions arrange readings for children.
Many school libraries use this opportunity to introduce Nordic writers and literature.
Ævar the Scientist has his own reading promotion programme
Ævar is a writer, an actor and a radio/tv producer.
He has written several books for children.
Ævar´s reading programme starts in January and ends in March.
Almost every school in Iceland takes part.
The children put the titles of the books they read in a box in the library.
At the end of the programme the names of 5 students are drawn out.
These children play a role in a book that Ævar publishes in the spring.
When Ævar visits schools he tells the children that he has always been a bookworm and that libraries are his favorite places.
Many schools give their own awards to their little bookworms.