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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Resources</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks to an announcement by our Lee Goldberg to his Yiddish studies circle (to which I am subscribed), I've been made aware of a wonderful resource that all of us can enjoy and ought to support:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The International Children's Digital Library</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.childrenslibrary.org/">http://en.childrenslibrary.org/</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It contains facsimile copies of children's books whose copyright protection has run out. So there is an historical angle to this, which, in my opinion, makes the resource even more valuable, at least from an adult perspective. In some cases this takes us back to a time when children's books in a given language (such as Yiddish) were still published in good numbers, as opposed to more recent times. And for us language enthusiasts, students and researchers this is a true feast, considering that there are books in numerous languages.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Derfar a dank aykh, tayerer khaver Leybl.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When you reach the front page of the site (<a href="http://en.childrenslibrary.org/">http://en.childrenslibrary.org/</a>), click on the button labeled "Read Books!" Then make your choices, including language choices, and see what comes up. Happily, some books are translations, and some come in bilingual forms (e.g., Quechua/Spanish and Maori/English). This makes for language learning convenience, especially where languages are "rare" and teaching material for them is hard to come by.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And of course there is the purpose of giving today's children access to such material</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, there are many books and languages there already. But the Library could do with many more, as you can see. For instance, there is only one book in Afrikaans so far, and none in Low Saxon (Low German), Scots, Limburgish and Tok Pisin. Therefore I suggest that we all make an effort to support this project. Please find out here what you can do: <a href="http://en.childrenslibrary.org/contribute/index.shtml">http://en.childrenslibrary.org/contribute/index.shtml</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">... who's back down with a flu relapse ...</span> hopefully being coherent here despite the medication.<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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