Creating a portal for children and youth literature for the Goethe-Institut

The Children and Young Adult Literature Portal of the Goethe Institut provides concise information at a single location on authors writing in German for children and teens as well as illustrators of children's books in the second half of the 20th century. It is primarily intended for users involved in the popularisation or dissemination of German literature abroad. A jury of experts selected 50 authors of children's and young people's books and 20 illustrators. They are each introduced with a capsule biography and a selection of their works. The user can search more than 500 available titles by subject, title and genre. The Children's and Young People's Literature Portal was developed as a cooperative project by the Goethe-Institut with the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK Leipzig) and ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH. The speakers selected the items considering criteria such as popularity and availibility. They also provided the bibliographic data including the covers as well as subject headings, age recommendations and genre.