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<div>Hi, Carol -</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>So, yes, I am in agreement - and will be fun to let users
add to these collections as well!</div>
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<div>At 10:31 AM -0800 1/15/09, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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. <br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Rebecca
Hargrave Malamud <<a
href="mailto:webchick@invisible.net">webchick@invisible.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote>Excellent, SJ!<br>
<br>
Someone directed me to the International Children's Digital Library
(<br>
<a
href="http://en.childrenslibrary.org/">http://en.childrenslibrary.org/</a
> ) as a possible source for content. I<br>
haven't contacted them yet - but will.<br>
<br>
Also, I am working with Open Library on a partnership project with<br>
BPL (Boston Public Library) known as Scan-On-Demand:<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://openlibrary.org/bpl">http://openlibrary.org/bpl</a><br>
<br>
There are some children's books - unfortunately, they aren't<br>
categorized by subject (yet) - fortunately, I am redesigning that<br>
page :-) - I am building a similar collection of the "best of"
books<br>
from what we have scanned - I will send the Library-OLPC list<br>
anything I find -<br>
<br>
In the meantime, feel free to queue up any books you find
interesting<br>
for scanning!<br>
<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<br>
Rebecca Malamud<br>
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At 3:34 AM -0500 1/15/09, Samuel Klein wrote:<br>
>A quick update about the gnubook ajax bookreader : I'm talking to
the<br>
>developer, Raj Kumar about how to improve the experience on the
XO.<br>
><br>
>you can test out the latest reader here:<br>
> <a
href="http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader"
>http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader</a><br>
> <a
href="http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/tree/master"
>http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/tree/master</a><br>
><br>
>and file feature requests and bugs here:<br>
> <a
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnubook"
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnubook</a><br>
><br>
>Please recommend specific books from the Internet Archive you'd
like<br>
>to see tested on the demo site; particularly from the
children's<br>
>library collection and this set, many of which Rebecca has
tracked<br>
>down:<br>
> <a
href="http://openlibrary.org/details/rightreadingforc00welsrich/leaf33"
>http://openlibrary.org/details/rightreadingforc00welsrich/leaf33</a><br
>
><br>
><br>
>Cheers,<br>
>SJ<br>
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