1. ICDL: A Library for the World’s Children Anne Rose University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab rose@cs.umd.edu Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning, July 9-11, 2009

5. service led by non-profit foundation

6. over 3,000,000 patrons

7. 3,900+ digitized books

8. 280,000 pages

9. in 54 languages

10. from 63 countries

12. Using the ICDL

13. Using the ICDL

15. create new stories from existing books(under development)Read books Story editor

17. offers activity sheets with mazes, scavenger hunts, & word searches

18. the ICDL is changing a public library 2008 June

20. use electronic tools in conjunction with physical books

21. the ICDL provides language specific tools and content 2008 June

25. children’s books are used for students to read and write their own stories

26. the ICDL is a tool for second-language acquisition 2007 February

28. children made content accessible to more children

29. the ICDL supports sharing through translation 2008 November

31. compare alternate versions of familiar tales from many cultures and in many languages

32. write your own story using the illustrations

34. volunteer as a translator

36. children choose to read differently depending on goals(Hourcade et al., 2004)

37. children show an increase in reading motivation and interest in other cultures after extended use of the ICDL(Druin, Weeks, Massey, & Bederson, Tech Report HCIL-2007-02) 2007 February

39. current development team: Anne Rose, Sheri Massey, Chang Hu, Alex Quinn, Greg Walsh, Dana, Stephen, Alexandra, Tara, Caitlin, Sasha, Naja, Brody

40. supported by: National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Intel, Gov’t of Mongolia, Microsoft Corp., Elias Foundation, Adobe Corp. Questions? Contact us @ www.childrenslibrary.org or email rose@cs.umd.edu