International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)

Promoting tolerance by showcasing the best children's literature from around the world, the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) gives students free access to browse thousands of books. Hook them with the 444 books in English, or push their boundaries with books from many other languages...
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Online storytime Where the wild things are

This month's Barnes and Noble Online Storytime
is Maurice Sendak reading Where The Wild Things Are
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/storytime/index.asp  

Holocaust encyclopedia

From Booklist online :

http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=4376114

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is both an educational institution and a memorial to the victims and survivors of this attempt to annihilate people deemed unfit by the Nazis. This online encyclopedia makes some of the material available in the museum accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.




The encyclopedia is translated into 12 languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Portuguese, Arabic, Greek, simplified Chinese, Farsi, and Urdu.

On the home page, popular articles are arranged by topics that covers all aspects of the Holocaust: the Third Reich, the Holocaust, Victims of the Nazi Era, Rescue and Resistance, and After the Holocaust.

Users can also browse all articles A–Z, and look through the museum’s collection of ID cards, which are valuable resources for those researching family histories.

The encyclopedia also includes educational resources for both students and teachers as well as items from the museum’s collection of photographs, personal testimonies, histories, artifacts, documents, maps, and music.

An important feature of this resource is the fact that it relates history to current events. There are articles about the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur as well as about the war in the Congo.

It also includes information about all of the groups persecuted by the Nazis: Rom (Gypsies), homosexuals, Poles, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled, political opponents, among others.

This is an outstanding resource for anyone interested in history—and it is free.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

Online reading

A few articles from a recent LM_NET post about online reading :

There was a print article in Time Magazine on Nov. 23, 2009, by Barbara Kiviat called "The Paperless Chase." It mentioned eye pattern research about reading on line and quoted Jakob Nielsen's work on people's interactions with technology. On Time's website there is similar article that is less detailed. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1938743,00.html

Is Google Making Us Stupid? Atlantic Monthly 2008 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

There was an article called "R U really Reading?" in the New York Times recently http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html