University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland's International children's Digital Library (ICDL) research team will create digital collections of historic children's books for research and general use. These special collections will be accessible through the ICDL at www.icdlbooks.org as well as from the Web sites of children’s literature collections at partner institutions: the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut; the Boston Public Library; and the University of Minnesota. The inclusion of these collections in the current ICDL, searchable across institutions, will make important children’s books available to the public and will facilitate research in children’s literature.