News Archive

2010

January 25, 2010
19 new books added from Nicaragua
Jinotepe, Nicaragua
Libros para Niños, our first partner in Nicaragua, recently contributed 19 Spanish books to our collection. Libros is a private organization dedicated to growing in children a love of books and reading. These wonderful new titles can be read here. You can also find out more about Libros from their facebook entry.
January 25, 2010
Slovenian students help translate book metadata
Postojna, Slovenia
A class from Miroslav Vilhar Primary School in Slovenia, who call themselves the "Postojna Dudes", recently contributed to the ICDL by translating some of the invaluable metadata that makes the ICDL easy to use. Check out how you can help ICDL.

November 13, 2008
International Children's Digital Library Signs Historic Agreement with Google
ICDL announced that it has signed an agreement with Google to augment its vast collection of public domain children's literature with public domain titles digitized using Google's state-of-the-art scanning technology.
June 23, 2008
The ICDL has a new ICDL Activities Page
The ICDL Activities page is aimed at providing the ICDL community with a variety of ways to use the library - as a child, parent, teacher, librarian or just as a children's literature enthusiast. We hope to gather these activities from ICDL users around the world. Please be sure to send us any activity you use to make the ICDL relevant to your world!
March 5, 2008
International Children's Digital Library to expand its online Jewish children's books collection with four new partnerships for children the world over
February 25, 2008
International Children's Digital Library partners with the Alice M. Jordan Collection at Boston Public Library

October 30, 2007
Increasing Mongolian books in ICDL
In anticipation of the One Laptop Per Child launch in Mongolia this month, we have significantly increased the number of Mongolian children's books in the Library. This work has long been supported by the World Bank and the Mongolian Ministry of Education. Don't miss Director Bederson's most recent Mongolian Trip Report, "No Road, Drive", in which he enumerates the adventures and explorations of his latest efforts to set up the ICDL in rural schools.

December 8, 2006
Meetings to increase Arabic books in ICDL
Cairo, Egypt
ICDL Director of Collection Development, Ann Weeks, just returned from Egypt where Madame Farida El Wakil Reedy, Secretary General of the Integrated Care Society, sponsored meetings focused on increasing the number of books in Arabic in the ICDL. While in Egypt, Dr. Weeks also met with the Directors of the Children's Library and the Young People's Library at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina about expanding cooperative projects between the Library and the ICDL.
December 6, 2006
The Polish Internet Library to contribute books to ICDL
Warsaw, Poland
The Polish Internet Library, one of the world largest and most ambitious digital repositories, has made available its first set of Polish children's work to the ICDL.
August 22, 2006
Visit the Baldwin Collection of Historical Children's Literature, ICDL's first Special Collection
March 28, 2006
Five new books added from Hungary and Peru
February 27, 2006
Nine new books added from Iran and Mongolia
February 9, 2006
Ten new books added from Iran written in Persian / Farsi
January 24, 2006
Seventeen new books added from Iran written in Persian / Farsi

December 7, 2005
Nine new books added from Mongolia and the American Indian Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe
November 29, 2005
33 new books added from New Zealand and Germany
October 25, 2005
Nine new books added from Portugal, Peru, France, and Iran
September 9, 2005
Nine new books added from Croatia, Peru, Germany, and Iran
August 19, 2005
31 new books added, representing Spanish, Croatian, Persian/Farsi, German, and French languages
July 29, 2005
53 new books added from Malaysia, Iran, Kenya, and more!
June 22, 2005
20 new books added from Malaysia, Peru, and more!
June 1, 2005
95 new books added from Iran, Peru, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, and more, including several award-winners!
March 17, 2005
19 new books in Spanish, German, and Quechua added to the collection
February 17, 2005
13 new books in Quechua, Hebrew, and Filipino added to the collection

December 15, 2004
73 new books in Persian/Farsi and Yiddish added to the collection
November 8, 2004
37 new books in Serbian, Hebrew, Persian/Farsi, and Spanish added to the collection
June 11, 2004
112 new books added representing 10 languages, including Japanese, Portuguese, Serbian, Yiddish, and more

December 22, 2003
52 new books in Persian/Farsi, Russian, Vietnamese and more added to the collection
April 3, 2003
Four new books added from the Library of Congress
March 18, 2003
Seven new books added from the Library of Congress

December 18, 2002
Five new books added from the Library of Congress
November 20, 2002
Introducing the International Children's Digital Library (aka "ICDL")

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