What are the benefits of having a book included in the ICDL?
Books included in the ICDL benefit from increased exposure to children, librarians, teachers, parents, and scholars around the world. The ICDL provides exposure to a worldwide market. It may promote and highlight up-coming authors and illustrators; expand markets; facilitate publishing or co-publishing opportunities; encourage translation; create global awareness of titles and series; and identify interest in out of print titles, which may be considered candidates for re-printing. Publishers and other rights holders may request information regarding the number of times that specific titles are accessed through the collection from the ICDL Research Team. The ICDL also provides a means of preserving quality children’s literature that might otherwise be lost to the world. As the collection expands, it will offer access to historical materials heretofore available only in special collections in libraries and institutes throughout the world.
