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  • November 19, 2008 (Press Releases)
    International Children's Digital Library Launches Apple iPhone Application
    ICDL provides anywhere access to world's largest online children's book collection from Apple's iPhone.
  • November 13, 2008 (Collection, Press Releases)
    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.
  • October 16, 2008 (On the Road)
    Presentation at Maryland Association of School Librarians 2008 Annual Conference
    Director Weeks and University of Maryland doctoral candidate Sheri A. Massey presented the ICDL at the Maryland Association of School Librarians 2008 Annual Conference. The presentation was designed to introduce the ICDL's newest features, ClearText and PopoutText, and to share ways the ICDL could be used in libraries or classrooms. The conference drew over 300 school library media specialists and administrators who are shaping the libraries of the future in PreK-12 education.
  • October 3, 2008 (Press)
    "Global Foundation Offers Children's Digital Library" in Gulf-Times.com
    Doha, Qatar
  • September 18, 2008 (Press)
    "Kids Help Design International Children's Digital Library: Top holdings in English, Persian and Mongolian" in America.gov
  • July 1, 2008 (Press Releases, Project)
    World Bank Approves Funding for Integration of the International Children's Digital Library Content in Rural Mongolian Schools
    The World Bank approved additional funding for the Integration of the ICDL in Rural Mongolian Schools. These funds will be provided to the ICDL and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) to enable an optimized partnership between the two organizations as they implement programs in Mongolia aimed at providing technology throughout the country's educational infrastructure. This is a continuation of the READ initiative.
  • June 23, 2008 (Project)
    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!
  • June 18, 2008 (On the Road, Story of the Week)
    ICDL at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Inaugural Symposium
  • June 17, 2008 (Press Releases)
    International Children's Digital Library unveils breakthrough enhancements
  • May 1, 2008 (On the Road)
    Presentation at the Manchester Public Library
    Manchester by the Sea, MA
    "No Road, Drive: The ICDL Travels to Mongolia" by Director Ben Bederson
  • April 23, 2008 (Technology)
    Improving the readability of books in ICDL
    Important and exciting enhancements were made to the ICDL. Thanks to a series of technical innovations developed at the University of Maryland, our books are now much easier to read. We can now display translations of books so you can read books in their original language, and in your language! The translation process is not fast, so it will take some time for all books to be translated. If you cannot wait, we encourage you to help by volunteering to translate and review books.
  • April 5, 2008 (On the Road)
    Teaching a course at the International CHI Conference
    Florence, Italy
    Director Druin is teaching a course at the International CHI Conference in Florence, Italy. In her course, Dr. Druin will focus on methodologies she and her students have used to bring children actively into the design of new technologies for children; methodologies used extensively in the design of the ICDL.
  • April 1, 2008 (On the Road)
    Presentation at the 23rd annual Computers in Libraries
    Arlington, VA, US
    Director Weeks and University of Maryland doctoral candidate Sheri Massey presented a session entitled "The ICDL - Using Technology to Expand Access to Children's Books" at the 23rd annual Computers in Libraries - the most comprehensive North American conference of library and information delivery technology. They will introduce activities to "jump start" participants' use of the ICDL in their libraries or classrooms.
  • March 5, 2008 (Collection, Press Releases)
    International Children's Digital Library to expand its online Jewish children's books collection with four new partnerships for children the world over
  • March 1, 2008 (On the Road)
    Presentation at Read Across America
    College Park, MD, US
    "The International Children's Digital Library: A Library for the World's Children" by Director Druin
  • February 25, 2008 (Press)
    "Partnerships with Children's Digital Library Benefit Kids" in School Library Journal
  • February 25, 2008 (Collection, Press Releases)
    International Children's Digital Library partners with the Alice M. Jordan Collection at Boston Public Library
  • February 21, 2008 (Press)
    "Literary treasures, kid-friendly format" in The Boston Globe
    Boston, MA, US
  • February 21, 2008 (Press Releases)
    International Children's Digital Library partners with the National Science Foundation to co-sponsor the Children's Mobile Workshop

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