Presentation: Children’s Rights, access to information and IFLA’s Guidelinesfor Library Services for Children and Young Adults

Consultant Ms. Ingrid Bon, Biblioservice Gelderland and secretary of Section Libraries for Children and Young Adults of IFLA

For all who are concerned with children and young adults, the United Nations Convention on The Rights of the Child offers support in library policy and practice. Libraries, and especially children’s libraries should have as its goal "to advocate for the children’s right to information, according to the United Nations’ Convent on Children’s Rights".From that point of view it is only a small step to a specific Health Information Point for children. In a new approach some library and information students, supported by specialists on health information and children, work together in this project. Their task is to develop both a physical and digital access point with health information for children.And last but not least, the international library community (via IFLA Section Libraries for Children and Young Adults) has developed the Guidelines for libraries for children and young adults, to provide all libraries with some tools to improve the international standard of library services.

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