Promoting Reading in Austria
The favourite book of Lower Austrian readers
The initiative „Zeit Punkt Lesen“ is looking for the favourite book
For the second time, the initiative "Zeit Punkt Lesen" is looking for the favourite book of readers in Lower Austria. From November 1st until December 1st, 2009, all readers in Lower Austria are invited to vote for their favourite book. Video contributions can now be sent in for the first time, thus youths in particular are inspired to participate. The list of most popular titles will be continuously updated and is accessible at www.zeitpunktlesen.at.
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Interview with Gerhard Falschlehner
Managing director of the Austrian book club
The Austrian book club is a socially active, non-profit network for promoting reading as well as a publishing house for issuing and disseminating youth media and reading promotion products. Gerhard Falschlehner reports about practice materials the book club has prepared for primary and secondary school education, and talks about “knowledge suitcases” packed with prized books, which provide an incentive for fact-based reading in all school subjects.
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LESEDOCKS for young patients in the reading country of Lower Austria
Reading stations promote creativity and health
The initiative “Zeit Punkt Lesen – Leseland Niederösterreich“ and the district hospitals holding corporation in Lower Austria offer a diversified alternative to the usual TV programmes in the children and youth hospital wards. Reading wards with books, language and signing games add entertainment to hospital routine.
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Österreichischer Buchklub der Jugend / Austrian Book Club for Young People
http: / / www.buchklub.at
Reading today is a basic necessity, which opens up the world around us day to day. It is the responsibility of the Book Club to encourage young people to learn to read and to bring to them the joys of literature. The Book Club is the largest reading organisation in Austria with 400,000 young people from the age of 3 to 18 as [ ... ]
Reading projects of the Austrian book club of the youth
Zeit Punkt Lesen - Leseland Niederösterreich
http: / / www.zeitpunktlesen.at / de / index.phpZeit Punkt Lesen“ is a reading initiative in the federal state of Lower Austria, which was initiated by councillor Sobotka, starting in 2006. Children and youth are thus supported in their process of reading right from the beginning. They are inspired with a motivation for reading in and out of school, in an enjoyable, non-conventional way, taking into account that the acquisition and maintenance of reading skills are closely related to social backgrounds and their estimation of reading. Activities include [ ... ]
DetailsReading projects of “Zeit Punkt Lesen“
Rezensionen Online (Austrian book reviews online)
http: / / www.biblio.at / rezensionen / index.htm
Rezensionen-online (online book reviews) is a project under the auspices of the Austrian library network, uniting literary-critical and library criteria in a database and enriching them with more related services. Without exception, anyone who is interested can access information regarding critical literary and media reviews. A media showcase that is [ ... ]
School library services in Austria
http: / / www.schulbibliothek.atBy remit of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture(bmukk), the Austrian library service for schools provides information and counselling regarding all questions on the topic of school libraries, particularly as to the areas of planning and setting up school libraries, stock of books and maintenance of stock,, initial and continuing training of teachers, organisation and administration, general services and use of information technology for school libraries. The library service for [ ... ]
DetailsInstitut für Jugendliteratur / Institute for Youth Literature, Vienna, Austria
http: / / www.jugendliteratur.netThe Vienna Institute for Youth Literature was founded in 1965 as a non-for-profit organisation, and conceives itself as a service and communication centre in the field of child and youth literature. Its tasks include counselling and training of multipliers,national and international networking and the preparation of information, databases and publications. Its fundamental objective is to increase the role of child and youth literature in society.
DetailsLesezentrum Steiermark / Reading centre Steiermark (Austria)
http: / / www.lesezentrum.at /
Lesezentrum (Reading Centre) Steiermark assists with setting up libraries in communities, parishes, schools, boarding schools, hospitals etc.) and counsels on books and other media. It also inspires and accompanies reading motivation events, provides for initial and further training of librarians and is concerned with reading education. It thus [ ... ]
Projects of the Reading Center Steiermark