Among the materials digitized in the lab are 137 Yiddish and Hebrew children’s books from the Yeshiva University Museum (YUM) and the YIVO Institute for Research (YIVO). The books document the development of Jewish children’s literature from the turn of the century until the onset of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. The majority of the books are rare and only available at the Center. They are in the public domain or orphan works and could therefore be made accessible via CJH Digital Collections (digital.cjh.org). The project began as a pilot project funded by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) in 2007 and grew into a larger project when a private family foundation decided to fund the digitization of additional books. The Center also contributed the digital images to the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation which has made them accessible through its website.