ICDL

Description

From the International Children's Digital Library website:

"The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from around the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community."

Links

• http://www.childrenslibrary.org/

Languages

The ICDL has books in 41 languages including Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, Tagalog, French, German, Hebrew, Mongolian, Farsi, Portuguese, and Spanish representing 56 countries.

Size

The library's master collection, the largest collection of its type in the world, currently consists of over 5,000 children's books, 2,000 of which are currently online free of charge and free of advertising. An up-to-date list is here: http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/TextSearch

OLPC contributions

• Contributed multilingual illustrated children's books to library releases 0 and 1 at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/Library/.

Formats

ICDL books can be viewed online through their reader. They are stored in PDF format (?)

• Scripting (any scripting needed to convert it from curent packaging)

Curator Info

Group: Literature

Group coordinator: None

Curators: None

Allottable size:

Assessment

Scope: Children's literature of all genres representing many cultures and languages.

Completeness: A nice selection, but only 1000 books so far.

Multilingualism: Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, Tagalog, French, German, Hebrew, Mongolian, Farsi, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Quality: Varied, but pretty pictures.

Freeness: ICDL negotiates directly with rights holders, and does not allow downloading, printing, or further distribution. More information here: http://www.childrenslibrary.org/about/copyright.shtml

Comments, Tags, and Ratings

XO

School library