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Not to be confused with the [[World Digital Library]]. |
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World Public Library is a Non-Profit Organization, and is not affiliated with any governmental agency or department. |
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The World Public Library |
The World Public Library has made more than a 1,000 eBooks FREELY available to the public specifically made for the OLPC folks. Please visit http://www.schoollibrary.com/OLPC/ to download the titles. |
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==History== |
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World Public Library was founded in 1996 by John Guagliardo, Ph.D. with the vision to bring eBooks under the public license domain to people of all age groups around the world. |
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==OLPC eBook Collection== |
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The World Public Library is the producers of the [[OLPC eBook Collection]], http://SchoolLibrary.com/OLPC_Collection.htm is a FREE publicly accessible collection of 1,500 eBooks. Although SchoolLibrary.com is a membership supported organization they have chosen to make the OLPC_Collection accessible to the public. |
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==Organization's Description== |
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The World Public Library, WorldPublicLibrary.org is an Internet based library, shelving digital books, enabling innovations in technology to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. |
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Their mission is to serve the public, aid students and educators by providing free public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic texts on-line as well as offer an enhanced members supported collection. All eBooks are carefully selected to offer online support to educators by providing them with a variety of services and resources that support and strengthen the instructional programs of education, elementary through post baccalaureate studies. |
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The World Public Library was produced as part of the "eBook Campaign" to promote literacy, accessibility, and enhanced reading. Authors, publishers, libraries and technologists united to expand reading with eBooks. |
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==External links== |
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http://WorldPublicLibrary.org |
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http://SchoolLibrary.com/OLPC_Collection.htm |
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==Unencumbered External links== |
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*http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page |
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*http://wikibooks.org/ |
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Latest revision as of 07:36, 8 December 2009
Not to be confused with the World Digital Library.
The World Public Library has made more than a 1,000 eBooks FREELY available to the public specifically made for the OLPC folks. Please visit http://www.schoollibrary.com/OLPC/ to download the titles.