L1 VISITORS BRIEFING ROOM
Using Digital Content for Learning and Pleasure for Children

Ann Carlson Weeks (Associate Dean, University of Maryland)

Ann Carlson Weeks shares more about the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL), a full-text library of children’s books from around the world that is freely available on the Internet (www.childrenslibrary.org). Developed by an interdisciplinary, intergenerational research team at the University of Maryland, the collection currently includes almost 5000 contemporary and historic children’s books in almost 60 languages from more than 50 countries.

Part of: Writers & Illustrators Conference