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CANVAS’ One Million Books for One Million Children campaign also benefits from Marahuyo Art Projects, an online platform and virtual art space featuring the works of Filipino artists. Marahuyo offers programmed and curated content by working with its artists to reach audiences and collectors far beyond the confines of traditional galleries.
Children's Library is a collection of digitized books at the Internet Archive.These books are from the University of California Libraries, the University of Florida's "Literature for Children" Collection, National Yiddish Book Center, New York Public Library, International Children's Digital Library and some libraries that sponsored books to Internet Archive. [1]
The International Children's Digital Library was initially launched in November 2002 under the direction of University of Maryland Computer Science professor Dr. Allison Druin and in collaboration with researchers from other fields, such as information studies, art, psychology, and education, in order to better understand children's online habits and to encourage a love of reading and ...
Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
In August 2003, Project Gutenberg created a CD containing approximately 600 of the "best" e-books from the collection. The CD is available for download as an ISO image. When users are unable to download the CD, they can request to have a copy sent to them, free of charge. In December 2003, a DVD was created containing nearly 10,000 items. At ...
[2] [3] He based the concept on the books kept by Umberto Eco [4] —who used the term "antilibrary" to describe Jonathan Swift's description of a library on Gulliver's Travels [5] —writing that Eco "separates visitors into two categories": those who praise the size of his library and those who recognize that a library is a tool for research ...
Eco art on display. Sustainable art is art in harmony with the key principles of sustainability , which include ecology , social justice , non-violence and grassroots democracy . [ 1 ] Sustainable art may also be understood as art that is produced with consideration for the wider impact of the work and its reception in relationship to its ...
Eco-Schools is an international programme of the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) that aims to “empower students to be the change our sustainable world needs by engaging them in fun, action-orientated, and socially responsible learning.” [1] [2]