[OLPC library] [Testing] gnubook testing

[Rebecca Hargrave Malamud]

Hi, Carol -

I agree! Karen Coyle (http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/) has historically 
suggested that it would be good to engage some children's and young 
adult librarians to offer additional insight. LC has subject headings 
for "Juvenile literature" and "Children's literature," and there is a 
code in MARC for "audience level" - but they don't capture everything 
that one might deem appropriate for children (like "Tom Sawyer"). We 
could also get the audience level from ONIX records as well.

So, yes,  I am in agreement - and will be fun to let users add to 
these collections as well!



At 10:31 AM -0800 1/15/09, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
>Hi Rebecca -- It would be awesome to have a directory that showed 
>reading levels for the English language books.  In my efforts to 
>provide literacy materials to emergent readers via XO (and 
>otherwise) this is an important piece of data for the teacher to 
>have available.  It also reveals the dearth of materials suitable 
>for emergent readers to read independently, as much of the what's 
>available is too advanced and must be read aloud by an adult or 
>older person.  
>
>On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud 
><<mailto:webchick at invisible.net>webchick at invisible.net> wrote:
>
>Excellent, SJ!
>
>Someone directed me to the International Children's Digital Library (
><http://en.childrenslibrary.org/>http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ ) 
>as a possible source for content. I
>haven't contacted them yet - but will.
>
>Also, I am working with Open Library on a partnership project with
>BPL (Boston Public Library) known as Scan-On-Demand:
>
><http://openlibrary.org/bpl>http://openlibrary.org/bpl
>
>There are some children's books - unfortunately, they aren't
>categorized by subject (yet) - fortunately, I am redesigning that
>page :-) - I am building a similar collection of the "best of" books
>from what we have scanned - I will send the Library-OLPC list
>anything I find -
>
>In the meantime, feel free to queue up any books you find interesting
>for scanning!
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Rebecca Malamud
>
>
>
>
>
>At 3:34 AM -0500 1/15/09, Samuel Klein wrote:
>>A quick update about the gnubook ajax bookreader : I'm talking to the
>>developer, Raj Kumar about how to improve the experience on the XO.
>>
>>you can test out the latest reader here:
>> 
>><http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader>http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader
>> 
>><http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/tree/master>http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/tree/master
>>
>>and file feature requests and bugs here:
>>    <https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnubook>https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnubook
>>
>>Please recommend specific books from the Internet Archive you'd like
>>to see tested on  the demo site; particularly from the children's
>>library collection and this set, many of which Rebecca has tracked
>>down:
>> 
>><http://openlibrary.org/details/rightreadingforc00welsrich/leaf33>http://openlibrary.org/details/rightreadingforc00welsrich/leaf33
>>
>>
>>Cheers,
>>SJ
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