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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Last month, we announced the Clarke Historical Library’s “Children’s Books from Around the World” program.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are pleased to announce that all of the recordings are complete! Anyone with an internet connection can access all of the recordings on the Clarke’s website anytime they wish -
<a href="https://clarke.cmich.edu/InternationalChildrensBooks">https://clarke.cmich.edu/InternationalChildrensBooks</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We created 38 recordings, with readings by 49 volunteers (all students, faculty, and staff at Central Michigan University) in 15 different languages for a total of more
than 4 hours 40 minutes of recordings!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What better way to end March is Reading Month than to kick back and watch a story in Italian, Korean, or Portuguese, Chinese, and more.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We greatly appreciate all of the volunteers and all of the staff and faculty in CMU’s Office of Global Engagements and CMU’s Department of World Languages and Cultures for
helping to bring this together. And a huge thanks goes to Nova, our student assistant in the Clarke, for their excellent work with the processing and the editing of these videos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks and have a great Friday,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bryan Whitledge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Archivist for University Digital Records<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Clarke Historical Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Central Michigan University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">989-774-2159<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">whitl1br@cmich.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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