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Poster:	simon c	Date:	November 18, 2003 09:01:27am
Forum:	iacl	Subject:	Some out-of-copyright IACL recommendations

Hey,

Since I've been editing the metadata on these books, I've been checking out some of the neater titles, especially the out-of-copyright ones that there are no restrictions on - here's a couple of (completely unofficial) recommendations:

1. Anything scanned by the Library Of Congress tends to be from their Rare Books collection, and is generally beautiful and well worth checking out - there's Web-viewable version of all of these on the external ICDL site, too.

2. There's a number of books scanned by Gretchen Phillips which still need descriptive metadata adding, but are great quality. Titles like 'Fun And Frolic' are wonderfully of their period, and a good festive-themed title is 'The Night Before Christmas And Other Popular Stories For Children' - basically, all of these books are excellent, and should be popping up on the external ICDL Books site soon.

Regards,
s!

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Poster:	jessica	Date:	November 20, 2003 07:27:34am
Forum:	iacl	Subject:	Re: Some out-of-copyright IACL recommendations

There are also some great out of copyright materials that are marked source: Public Library System. Many of these books are from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, etc.

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Poster:	Branko Collin	Date:	February 22, 2005 08:51:04am
Forum:	iacl	Subject:	Re: Some out-of-copyright IACL recommendations

Project Gutenberg is trying to process some of these (children's books are often fun to work on), and I can recommend the Goops series, which have wonderful illustrations. For instance, More Goops and How Not to Be Them.