Sounds very good. And creating derived works could allow for generation of leveled readers more suited to the young/emergent readers.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud < [email protected]> wrote: > I agree. With public domain works, the electronic texts could, in theory, > be revised - I am very excited about that. Improving the OCR is a big focus > for IA this coming year. > > We do have a review module as part of the Open Library site - we could > re-instate it to work together on something like this (a much more > interesting application than simply "review this book"). > > The efforts could be a modern day, interactive version of this book: > > http://openlibrary.org/details/rightreadingforc00welsrich/leaf33 > > (but with inline annotations) > > :-) > > > > At 11:52 AM -0800 1/20/09, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > > We need to be aware that many of these very old children's books have some > very unfortunate racist aspects about them, as well as the sexism you note. > It would be good to have some way to collaboratively review these books as a > guide for educators in the third world who might want to use them. > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud < > [email protected]> wrote: > > More information on PD books for kids - > > > Robert Miller, Director of Books at the Internet Archive reminded me of the > collection on the Archive: > > > http://www.archive.org/details/iacl > > > Many of these are replicated in Open Library, but the alternative method of > classification uncovers some gems. (including the Tag Cloud) > > > Here are some new ones I culled working on the BPL Scan-on-Demand project: > > > Uncle Wiggly's Adventures > > http://openlibrary.org/olpc/embed?id=unclewiggilysadv00gari > > > Sea yarns for boys: spun by an old salt > > http://openlibrary.org/olpc/embed?id=seayarnsforboyss00hend > > > The comical creatures from Wurtemberg > > http://openlibrary.org/olpc/embed?id=comicalcreatures00plou > > > Dorothy Dainty at school > > http://openlibrary.org/olpc/embed?id=dorothydaintyats1904broo > > > The ABC Book > > http://openlibrary.org/olpc/embed?id=abcbook00fall > > > Things a boy should know about electricity > > http://openlibrary.org/olpc/embed?id=thingsboyshouldk00stjo > > > Handicraft for handy boys > > http://openlibrary.org/olpc/embed?id=handicraftforhan00hall > > > > Best - > > > Rebecca Malamud > > > > PS - I removed this from the somewhat high-trafficked Testing list - seems > more approproate to the Library-OLPC - would definitely like feedback on the > appropriateness of the material. Some are unfortunately gender-specific - > but they are over 100 years old. I forgive the author :-) > > > > > > At 5:57 PM -0500 1/15/09, Chris Leonard wrote: > > These are not currently ideal for redistribution (read the terms and > conditions), but maybe you can talk to UVA about some of them. > > > > http://etext.virginia.edu/subjects/Young-Readers.html > > > > cjl > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Excellent, SJ! > > Someone directed me to the International Children's Digital Library ( > 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 > > 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://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/tree/master > > > >and file feature requests and bugs here: > > 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 > > > > > >Cheers, > >SJ > >_______________________________________________ > > >Testing mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing > > > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > > > > -- > "Don't think for a minute that power concedes. 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