Rare children’s books go online
There is an interesting article in the Boston Globe today about an project where children’s literature is being put online.
Run by a local nonprofit, the electronic database contains thousands of digitized historic and contemporary children’s books in dozens of languages, from Chinese to Croatian, including rare and fragile works that have been largely hidden from public view. The free site was created not only to fight illiteracy, but to teach tolerance by introducing children to reading material from other cultures and to save books at risk of perishing from lack of space and care.