Regulations of the Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature

On 8 December 2004, the Faculty Council of Faculty III adopted the following regulations for the Research Centre for Children's and Young People's Literature in accordance with Section 44 (1) sentence 2 NHG in the version dated 24 June 2002 (Nds. Law and Official Gazette p. 286), last amended by the law dated 22 January 2004 (Nds. Law and Official Gazette No. 3/2004 page 33; Official Notices of the University of Oldenburg Issue 3/2004 page 59).

§1
Name
The Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature is an institution of School III of the University of Oldenburg.

§Section 2
Tasks
(1) The Research Centre serves to expand and promote interdisciplinary research into children's and young adult literature at the University of Oldenburg and to institutionalise and coordinate the existing research activities of the School.
This also includes co-operation with other academic research centres for children's and young adult literature research as well as co-operation with the children's and young adult literature collections of the academic libraries, in particular with the archive and library of the Library and Information System at the University of Oldenburg (hereinafter referred to as BIS).
(2) In cooperation with the BIS - Archive and Library for Children's and Young Adult Literature - the Research Centre shall work towards third-party funding and external financing of research into children's and young adult literature and the expansion of the Oldenburg children's and young adult book collection.
(3) In accordance with the agreement between the City of Oldenburg, the VHS Oldenburg and the University, the Research Centre is responsible for the scientific support of the Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Fair in the form of exhibitions, symposia, campaigns and scientific publications.
(4) The research centre promotes young academics in the field of interdisciplinary children's and young adult literature research.

§Section 3
Members
(1) The Research Centre is made up of academics who are active in the field of children's and young adult literature research and who contribute their respective projects to the interdisciplinary work of the Research Centre. Researchers at the University can belong to the Research Centre if they have applied for membership and this membership has been confirmed by the Executive Board. A corresponding regulation applies to the employees of the BIS who are involved in the supervision of the children's and young adult book collection. In the case of membership, they belong to the research centre in accordance with their status under university law.
(2) The Director of the BIS is a member of the Research Centre.
(3) The admission of further members in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be by resolution of the Research Unit after consultation with the organisational units of the University concerned.
(4) Academics who are not members of the University of Oldenburg may become members of the Research Centre by special resolution. This requires the approval of the General Assembly.
(5) The Research Centre is open to members working on research projects on children's and young adult literature as a forum for academic exchange.

§ 4
Executive Board
(1) The Research Centre is managed by an Executive Board consisting of four members of the professors' group and one member each of the staff group, the MTV group and the student group. At least 40 % of the voting members should be women. If the seats of the staff group, the MTV group or the student group cannot be filled, the number of seats of the professors' group is reduced accordingly. In the event of a tie, the Director shall have the casting vote.
(2) The Executive Board is elected for two years. Notwithstanding sentence 1, the term of office of the student member is one year. Re-election is possible. Women should be given appropriate consideration when nominating candidates.
(3) The members of the professors' group, the staff group, the MTV group and the students working at the research centre (student assistants) who are not members of the Executive Board as well as the representatives of the relevant student body/ies may participate in the meetings of the Executive Board in an advisory capacity. The head of the BIS participates in the Executive Board meetings in an advisory capacity.
(4) The Executive Board fulfils the tasks listed under § 2.

§Section 5
Executive management
(Director)
(1) The members of the professors' group working at the research centre and the other voting members of the Executive Board shall select a director and his or her deputy from among the members of the professors' group who are members of the Executive Board. The Director may be voted out of office by three quarters of the votes of the members of the professors' group working at the research centre and the other voting members of the Executive Board.
(2) The Director is elected for a term of two years. Re-election is possible. Re-election in immediate succession requires a majority of two thirds of the valid votes cast.
(3) The Director is Chair of the Executive Board, prepares its resolutions and implements them. He or she prepares and conducts the meeting of the Research Centre.
(4) The Director represents the Research Centre within the framework of the resolutions of the Executive Board and in coordination with it, and manages the day-to-day business.
(5) The BIS shall be responsible for the administration of personnel and funds as well as the performance of the tasks of the Research Centre's office within the framework of its tasks for the supervision of the University's collection of books on children and young people in accordance with the instructions of the Director of the Research Centre.

§ 6
General Assembly of Members
(1) The Director shall convene a meeting of the members and associates of the Research Centre at least once a year, and also at the proposal of one third of the representatives of the staff group or the relevant student bodies and prior to the discussion of important matters of the Research Centre in the Executive Board.
(2) The associate members participate in the General Assembly in an advisory capacity.
(3) The General Assembly of Members has a comprehensive right to information from the Executive Board with regard to important decisions at the Research Centre. It can make recommendations on all matters concerning the Research Centre.

§Section 7
Final provision
(1) These regulations shall enter into force on the day after their adoption by the School III Faculty Council. They shall be published in the Official Notices of the University of Oldenburg.
(2) At the same time, the regulations of the Research Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature of 26 January 2000 (Official Notices 1/2000 p. 37) shall cease to be in force.

Agreement
between the

Research Centre for Children's and Youth Literature
(working group according to § 115 NHG)

and the

University Library
- Archive for Children's and Young Adult Literature

1. preliminary remarks

Oldenburg University Library has a rich collection of children's and young adult literature. This includes in particular the so-called KIBUM collection, which is the joint property of the organisers of the Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Fair and is held in trust by the University Library on a permanent basis.

As part of the library's duties, the collection is catalogued, catalogued and made available to the academic public,

2.

In order to institutionalise research into children's and young people's literature, the Research Centre for Children's and Young People's Literature has been established by Senate resolution as a joint working group (§115 NHG) of Departments 1, 2 and 11 in accordance with §115 NHG.

In view of the close connection between the research work on the one hand and the archive and collection management and cataloguing on the other, the purpose of this agreement is to ensure that the collection has joint centralised facilities and staff and to raise third-party funding for research funding and the archive.

3.

The following agreements are made to achieve this goal:

Research Centre for Children's BIS
and Youth Literature Archive and Library